This is not the original run-notebook action provided by Databricks, but instead a derived version (as allowed under the copyleft license) for testing of additional features. Unless you have a very good reason to use this action, you should use the original one provided by Databricks here: https://github.com/databricks/run-notebook
Given a Databricks notebook and cluster specification, this Action runs the notebook as a one-time Databricks Job run (docs: AWS | Azure | GCP) and awaits its completion:
- optionally installing libraries on the cluster before running the notebook
- optionally configuring permissions on the notebook run (e.g. granting other users permission to view results)
- optionally triggering the Databricks job run with a timeout
- optionally using a Databricks job run name
- setting the notebook output, job run ID, and job run page URL as Action output
- failing if the Databricks job run fails
You can use this Action to trigger code execution on Databricks for CI (e.g. on pull requests) or CD (e.g. on pushes to master).
To use this Action, you need a Databricks REST API token to trigger notebook execution and await completion. The API token must be associated with a principal with the following permissions:
- Cluster permissions (AWS | Azure | GCP): Allow unrestricted cluster creation entitlement, if running the notebook against a new cluster (recommended), or "Can restart" permission, if running the notebook against an existing cluster.
- Workspace permissions (AWS |
Azure |
GCP):
- If supplying
local-notebook-path
with one of thegit-commit
,git-tag
, orgit-branch
parameters, no workspace permissions are required. However, your principal must have Git integration configured (AWS | Azure | GCP). You can associate git credentials with your principal by creating a git credential entry using your principal's API token. - If supplying the
local-notebook-path
parameter, "Can manage" permissions on the directory specified by theworkspace-temp-dir
parameter (the/tmp/databricks-github-actions
directory ifworkspace-temp-dir
is unspecified). - If supplying the
workspace-notebook-path
parameter, "Can read" permissions on the specified notebook.
- If supplying
We recommend that you store the Databricks REST API token in GitHub Actions secrets to pass it into your GitHub Workflow. The following section lists recommended approaches for token creation by cloud.
Note: we recommend that you do not run this Action against workspaces with IP restrictions. GitHub-hosted action runners have a wide range of IP addresses, making it difficult to whitelist.
For security reasons, we recommend creating and using a Databricks service principal API token. You can create a service principal, grant the Service Principal token usage permissions, and generate an API token on its behalf.
For security reasons, we recommend using a Databricks service principal AAD token.
Here are two ways that you can create an Azure Service Principal.
The first way is via the Azure Portal UI. See the Azure Databricks documentation. Record the Application (client) Id, Directory (tenant) Id, and client secret values generated by the steps.
The second way is via the Azure CLI. You can follow the instructions below:
- Install the Azure CLI
- Run
az login
to authenticate with Azure - Run
az ad sp create-for-rbac -n <your-service-principal-name> --sdk-auth --scopes /subscriptions/<azure-subscription-id>/resourceGroups/<resource-group-name> --sdk-auth --role contributor
, specifying the subscription and resource group of your Azure Databricks workspace, to create a service principal and client secret.
From the resulting JSON output, record the following values:
clientId
: this is the client or application Id of your service principal.clientSecret
: this is the client service of your service princiapl.tenantId
: this is the tenant or directory Id of your service principal.
After you create an Azure Service Principal, you should add it to your Azure Databricks workspace using the SCIM API. Use the client or application Id of your service principal as the applicationId
of the service principal in the add-service-principal
payload.
-
Store your service principal credentials into your GitHub repository secrets. The Application (client) Id should be stored as
AZURE_SP_APPLICATION_ID
, Directory (tenant) Id asAZURE_SP_TENANT_ID
, and client secret asAZURE_SP_CLIENT_SECRET
. -
Add the following step at the start of your GitHub workflow. This will create a new AAD token for your Azure Service Principal and save its value in the
DATABRICKS_TOKEN
environment variable for use in subsequent steps.- name: Generate AAD Token run: | echo "DATABRICKS_TOKEN=$(curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \ https://login.microsoftonline.com/${{ secrets.AZURE_SP_TENANT_ID }}/oauth2/v2.0/token \ -d 'client_id=${{ secrets.AZURE_SP_APPLICATION_ID }}' \ -d 'grant_type=client_credentials' \ -d 'scope=2ff814a6-3304-4ab8-85cb-cd0e6f879c1d%2F.default' \ -d 'client_secret=${{ secrets.AZURE_SP_CLIENT_SECRET }}' | jq -r '.access_token')" >> $GITHUB_ENV
Notes:
- The generated Azure token has a default life span of 60 minutes. If you expect your Databricks notebook to take longer than 60 minutes to finish executing, then you must create a token lifetime policy and attach it to your service principal.
- The generated Azure token will work across all workspaces that the Azure Service Principal is added to. You do not need to generate a token for each workspace.
For security reasons, we recommend inviting a service user to your Databricks workspace and using their API token. You can invite a service user to your workspace, log into the workspace as the service user, and create a personal access token to pass into your GitHub Workflow.
See action.yml for the latest interface and docs.
The workflow below runs a notebook as a one-time job within a temporary repo checkout, enabled by
specifying the git-commit
, git-branch
, or git-tag
parameter. You can use this to run notebooks that
depend on other notebooks or files (e.g. Python modules in .py
files) within the same repo.
name: Run a notebook within its repo on PRs
on:
pull_request
env:
DATABRICKS_HOST: https://adb-XXXX.XX.azuredatabricks.net
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checks out the repo
uses: actions/checkout@v2
# The step below does the following:
# 1. Sends a POST request to generate an Azure Active Directory token for an Azure service principal
# 2. Parses the token from the request response and then saves that in as DATABRICKS_TOKEN in the
# GitHub enviornment.
# Note: if the API request fails, the request response json will not have an "access_token" field and
# the DATABRICKS_TOKEN env variable will be empty.
- name: Generate and save AAD Token
run: |
echo "DATABRICKS_TOKEN=$(curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
https://login.microsoftonline.com/${{ secrets.AZURE_SP_TENANT_ID }}/oauth2/v2.0/token \
-d 'client_id=${{ secrets.AZURE_SP_APPLICATION_ID }}' \
-d 'grant_type=client_credentials' \
-d 'scope=2ff814a6-3304-4ab8-85cb-cd0e6f879c1d%2F.default' \
-d 'client_secret=${{ secrets.AZURE_SP_CLIENT_SECRET }}' | jq -r '.access_token')" >> $GITHUB_ENV
- name: Trigger model training notebook from PR branch
uses: databricks/run-notebook@v0
with:
local-notebook-path: notebooks/deployments/MainNotebook
# If the current workflow is triggered from a PR,
# run notebook code from the PR's head commit, otherwise use github.sha.
git-commit: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
# The cluster JSON below is for Azure Databricks. On AWS and GCP, set
# node_type_id to an appropriate node type, e.g. "i3.xlarge" for
# AWS or "n1-highmem-4" for GCP
new-cluster-json: >
{
"num_workers": 1,
"spark_version": "11.3.x-scala2.12",
"node_type_id": "Standard_D3_v2"
}
# Grant all users view permission on the notebook results
access-control-list-json: >
[
{
"group_name": "users",
"permission_level": "CAN_VIEW"
}
]
The workflow below runs a self-contained notebook as a one-time job.
Python library dependencies are declared in the notebook itself using notebook-scoped libraries (AWS | Azure | GCP)
name: Run a notebook in the current repo on PRs
on:
pull_request
env:
DATABRICKS_HOST: https://adb-XXXX.XX.azuredatabricks.net
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout repo
uses: actions/checkout@v2
# The step below does the following:
# 1. Sends a POST request to generate an Azure Active Directory token for an Azure service principal
# 2. Parses the token from the request response and then saves that in as DATABRICKS_TOKEN in the
# GitHub enviornment.
# Note: if the API request fails, the request response json will not have an "access_token" field and
# the DATABRICKS_TOKEN env variable will be empty.
- name: Generate and save AAD Token
run: |
echo "DATABRICKS_TOKEN=$(curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
https://login.microsoftonline.com/${{ secrets.AZURE_SP_TENANT_ID }}/oauth2/v2.0/token \
-d 'client_id=${{ secrets.AZURE_SP_APPLICATION_ID }}' \
-d 'grant_type=client_credentials' \
-d 'scope=2ff814a6-3304-4ab8-85cb-cd0e6f879c1d%2F.default' \
-d 'client_secret=${{ secrets.AZURE_SP_CLIENT_SECRET }}' | jq -r '.access_token')" >> $GITHUB_ENV
- name: Trigger notebook from PR branch
uses: databricks/run-notebook@v0
with:
local-notebook-path: notebooks/MainNotebook.py
# Alternatively, specify an existing-cluster-id to run against an existing cluster.
# The cluster JSON below is for Azure Databricks. On AWS and GCP, set
# node_type_id to an appropriate node type, e.g. "i3.xlarge" for
# AWS or "n1-highmem-4" for GCP
new-cluster-json: >
{
"num_workers": 1,
"spark_version": "11.3.x-scala2.12",
"node_type_id": "Standard_D3_v2"
}
# Grant all users view permission on the notebook results, so that they can
# see the result of our CI notebook
access-control-list-json: >
[
{
"group_name": "users",
"permission_level": "CAN_VIEW"
}
]
In the workflow below, we build Python code in the current repo into a wheel, use upload-dbfs-temp
to upload it to a
tempfile in DBFS, then run a notebook that depends on the wheel, in addition to other libraries publicly available on
PyPI.
Databricks supports a range of library types, including Maven and CRAN. See the docs (Azure | AWS | GCP) for more information.
name: Run a single notebook on PRs
on:
pull_request
env:
DATABRICKS_HOST: https://adb-XXXX.XX.azuredatabricks.net
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checks out the repo
uses: actions/checkout@v2
# The step below does the following:
# 1. Sends a POST request to generate an Azure Active Directory token for an Azure service principal
# 2. Parses the token from the request response and then saves that in as DATABRICKS_TOKEN in the
# GitHub enviornment.
# Note: if the API request fails, the request response json will not have an "access_token" field and
# the DATABRICKS_TOKEN env variable will be empty.
- name: Generate and save AAD Token
run: |
echo "DATABRICKS_TOKEN=$(curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
https://login.microsoftonline.com/${{ secrets.AZURE_SP_TENANT_ID }}/oauth2/v2.0/token \
-d 'client_id=${{ secrets.AZURE_SP_APPLICATION_ID }}' \
-d 'grant_type=client_credentials' \
-d 'scope=2ff814a6-3304-4ab8-85cb-cd0e6f879c1d%2F.default' \
-d 'client_secret=${{ secrets.AZURE_SP_CLIENT_SECRET }}' | jq -r '.access_token')" >> $GITHUB_ENV
- name: Setup python
uses: actions/setup-python@v2
- name: Build wheel
run: |
python setup.py bdist_wheel
# Uploads local file (Python wheel) to temporary Databricks DBFS
# path and returns path. See https://github.com/databricks/upload-dbfs-tempfile
# for details.
- name: Upload Wheel
uses: databricks/upload-dbfs-temp@v0
with:
local-path: dist/my-project.whl
id: upload_wheel
- name: Trigger model training notebook from PR branch
uses: databricks/run-notebook@v0
with:
local-notebook-path: notebooks/deployments/MainNotebook
# Install the wheel built in the previous step as a library
# on the cluster used to run our notebook
libraries-json: >
[
{ "whl": "${{ steps.upload_wheel.outputs.dbfs-file-path }}" },
{ "pypi": "mlflow" }
]
# The cluster JSON below is for Azure Databricks. On AWS and GCP, set
# node_type_id to an appropriate node type, e.g. "i3.xlarge" for
# AWS or "n1-highmem-4" for GCP
new-cluster-json: >
{
"num_workers": 1,
"spark_version": "11.3.x-scala2.12",
"node_type_id": "Standard_D3_v2"
}
# Grant all users view permission on the notebook results
access-control-list-json: >
[
{
"group_name": "users",
"permission_level": "CAN_VIEW"
}
]
In this example, we supply the databricks-host
and databricks-token
inputs
to each databricks/run-notebook
step to trigger notebook execution against different workspaces.
The tokens are read from the GitHub repository secrets, DATABRICKS_DEV_TOKEN
and DATABRICKS_STAGING_TOKEN
and DATABRICKS_PROD_TOKEN
.
Note that for Azure workspaces, you simply need to generate an AAD token once and use it across all workspaces.
name: Run a notebook in the current repo on pushes to main
on:
push
branches:
- main
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout repo
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Trigger notebook in staging
uses: databricks/run-notebook@v0
with:
databricks-host: https://xxx-staging.cloud.databricks.com
databricks-token: ${{ secrets.DATABRICKS_STAGING_TOKEN }}
local-notebook-path: notebooks/MainNotebook.py
# The cluster JSON below is for AWS workspaces. On Azure and GCP, set
# node_type_id to an appropriate node type, e.g. "Standard_D3_v2" for
# Azure or "n1-highmem-4" for GCP
new-cluster-json: >
{
"num_workers": 1,
"spark_version": "11.3.x-scala2.12",
"node_type_id": "i3.xlarge"
}
# Grant users in the "devops" group view permission on the
# notebook results
access-control-list-json: >
[
{
"group_name": "devops",
"permission_level": "CAN_VIEW"
}
]
- name: Trigger notebook in prod
uses: databricks/run-notebook@v0
with:
databricks-host: https://xxx-prod.cloud.databricks.com
databricks-token: ${{ secrets.DATABRICKS_PROD_TOKEN }}
local-notebook-path: notebooks/MainNotebook.py
# The cluster JSON below is for AWS workspaces. On Azure and GCP, set
# node_type_id to an appropriate node type, e.g. "Standard_D3_v2" for
# Azure or "n1-highmem-4" for GCP
new-cluster-json: >
{
"num_workers": 1,
"spark_version": "11.3.x-scala2.12",
"node_type_id": "i3.xlarge"
}
# Grant users in the "devops" group view permission on the
# notebook results
access-control-list-json: >
[
{
"group_name": "devops",
"permission_level": "CAN_VIEW"
}
]
To enable debug logging for Databricks REST API requests (e.g. to inspect the payload of a bad /api/2.0/jobs/runs/submit
Databricks REST API request), you can set the ACTIONS_STEP_DEBUG
action secret to
true
.
See Step Debug Logs
for further details.
The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.