Imagine you have deploy Databricks at scale. Most likely you will use a strong naming convention to automate your deployments. But these naming convention will make no sense to the public audience and management.
If you are recognizing this, I would advise to have a look at Workspace labels. With this you can label your workspaces (and yes, you can give it a color 😊).
With the labels, you can quickly see what the purpose of the workspace is when you open it. And with the consistent coloring, you can for example directly see if it’s your dev, acceptance or production environment.
To find the labels (as it’s a bit hidden), go the the account portal -> workspaces -> select the workspace and click update workspace. There you can find Workspace Label.
The strange part, I couldn’t find any official documentation about this, and there some things which could still be improved:
💠 It doesn’t reflexed in the workspace overview list
💠 The labels are not in the system tables
💠 As a result of not be able to find anything in the documentation, I’m not sure if you can update this via the API or Terraform.
As a Bonus, you can do the same in Azure with hidden-title tags:
🔗 Hidden Tags in Microsoft Azure | Microsoft Learn
And if you want to read about a blog I wrote a while ago about naming convention and why it’s important
🔗 The power and importance of a good Azure naming convention – Remco Hooijer
For the original LinkedIn post click here.
