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Is databricks/cli beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, databricks/cli merged 164 of 350 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 2 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

Stars: 427
Forks: 267
Open beginner issues: 2
Indexed issues: 120
Avg merge: 2d 1h
Merged PRs (30d): 233

Dominant language: Go
License: No license data
Last GitHub push: Nov 11, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 15, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue

How to contribute to databricks/cli

There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
It ships a Dockerfile or Docker Compose file, so you can run it without installing its whole toolchain.
Pick one of the 2 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.

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Bundle deploy of an AI/BI dashboard breaks viewers' private bookmarks (UI save + publish does not)
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

databricks/cli#7419 · Opened Nov 9, 2026

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DAB dynvar: cannot parse resource keys starting with digits when permissions are set
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

databricks/cli#7387 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 6, 2026

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Job `triggers` does not follow pause / unpause overrides
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DABs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

databricks/cli#7359 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 4, 2026

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Support extras for `tasks.libraries.whl` on classic clusters (follow-up to #1602)
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DABs Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

databricks/cli#7256 · Opened Oct 29, 2026

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Feature request: native bundle variable substitution in explicitly selected files
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

databricks/cli#7100 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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Feature Request: Output drift for bundle plan without -o json argument
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DABs engine/direct Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

databricks/cli#7013 · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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Feature Request: Deployable Asset with Dependencies
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DABs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

databricks/cli#7002 · Opened Oct 9, 2026

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Ability to install the CLI via pypi with pip or uv
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

databricks/cli#6785 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 21, 2026

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[Announcement] ✅ Terraform engine support was removed in v1.20.0 (2026-10-07)
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 20/100

databricks/cli#6765 · Opened Sep 21, 2026

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aitools: installed plugin version differs from the version recorded and reported by `aitools list`
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CLI

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

databricks/cli#6755 · Opened Sep 18, 2026

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Development-mode bundles cannot be centrally destroyed by an authorised service principal
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DABs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

databricks/cli#6702 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2026

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Feature Request: allow "custom_template_format" to be specified
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DABs

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

databricks/cli#6670 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 14, 2026

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`databricks apps logs` fails with `websocket: bad handshake (HTTP 302 Found)` on an OAuth U2M (`databricks-cli`) profile
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CLI

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

databricks/cli#6605 · Opened Sep 10, 2026

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Feature Request: Create Serverless Usage Policies via DAB
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DABs Enhancement Stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

databricks/cli#6389 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2026

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Bundle and current-user commands fail with 404 SCIM_404 ("No user found with ID <group-id>") when authenticated as a role (RBAC Public Preview)
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

databricks/cli#6349 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 23, 2026

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--skills-only --scope project incorrectly skips Codex
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Stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

databricks/cli#6284 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2026

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Allow sync.paths to traverse outside of git folder
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DABs Enhancement Stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

databricks/cli#6065 · 7 comments · Opened Jul 24, 2026

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databricks lakeview create does not support parameter parent_path anymore
May be free again @janniklasrose claimed this 45 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
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Bug CLI

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

databricks/cli#5983 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 20, 2026

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uv.toml with private repo and Workspace DABs
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DABs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

databricks/cli#5969 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 17, 2026

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bundle path as a substitution variable
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DABs Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

databricks/cli#5890 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 9, 2026

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[DABs]: Prefix is a huge win for when deploying resources but ideally on a case by case there is a configuration for each resource that allows for this prefix to not be added
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DABs Enhancement Stale

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

databricks/cli#5780 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 30, 2026

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Deploing synced tables from Lakeflow Pipelines
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Stale

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

databricks/cli#5765 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 29, 2026

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deep merge can't nullify `autoscale` settings in target.
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Bug DABs Stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

databricks/cli#5701 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 24, 2026

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Catalog creation on Databricks Free
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DABs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

databricks/cli#5695 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 23, 2026

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Delayed CLI container image releases ?
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CLI

databricks/cli#5260 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened May 18, 2026

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[Bug]: CLI/Bundles strict validation rejects officially documented 'meta_ads_options' in Lakeflow Connect pipelines (Similar to #4883)
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DABs Stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

databricks/cli#5253 · 1 comment · Opened May 14, 2026

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Add ability to directly reference dependecy libraries from same DAB for Databricks Applications
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DABs Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

databricks/cli#5094 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 27, 2026

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Changing bundle name (but not UUID) causes terraform to fail with "There is already resource X named X"
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Bug DABs Stale

databricks/cli#4582 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 24, 2026

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DATABRICKS_HOST env variable is ignored when using CLI inside DAB directory
May be free again @simonfaltum claimed this 262 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
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auth Bug CLI No Autoclose

databricks/cli#4502 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 12, 2026

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Job with Table Trigger not allowed for tables that do not exist in Unity Catalog
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DABs Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

databricks/cli#4437 · 5 comments · 11 reactions · Opened Feb 4, 2026

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Subsequent cluster deployments always causes updates on TF if cluster has DATA_SECURITY_MODE: SINGLE_USER
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DABs engine/direct No Autoclose

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

databricks/cli#4418 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 2, 2026

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PowerBI Task DAB deployment fails if table does not exist
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Bug DABs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

databricks/cli#4370 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 26, 2026

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Add lookup for Serverless Budget Policies
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DABs Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

databricks/cli#4145 · 4 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Dec 15, 2025

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Add --localonly flag to bundle plan/deploy
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DABs engine/direct Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

databricks/cli#4092 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 4, 2025

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Error binding storage credential & external location to workspace
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CLI

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

databricks/cli#3945 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 18, 2025

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Proposal: Add databricks query command (Statement API) with a profile‑level safety gate; vector‑ready design
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Stale

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

databricks/cli#3896 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Nov 8, 2025

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Notebooks deployed through Asset Bundles do not use the default base environment
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DABs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

databricks/cli#3887 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 6, 2025

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Databricks workspace list command to list subdirectories and it's content recursively
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CLI Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

databricks/cli#3619 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2025

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Allow tagging of DAB-managed UC resources
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DABs Enhancement No Autoclose

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

databricks/cli#3580 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 9, 2025

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Support for data sources
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DABs Enhancement No Autoclose

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

databricks/cli#3460 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 22, 2025

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Asset bundles sync don't follow .gitignore pattern syntax for root folders
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Bug DABs No Autoclose

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

databricks/cli#3456 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 21, 2025

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binding a schema to DAB breaks DLT pipeline for Workday
May be free again @andrewnester claimed this 469 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
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Bug DABs No Autoclose Response Requested

databricks/cli#3251 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 14, 2025

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Add volume_path to the output for the volume object
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Enhancement No Autoclose Stale

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

databricks/cli#3220 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 9, 2025

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[DABs] Selective Key override for referencing complex variables
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DABs Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

databricks/cli#2985 · 8 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 4, 2025

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Error: Running Python code is not allowed when DATABRICKS_BUNDLE_RESTRICTED_CODE_EXECUTION is set
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DABs No Autoclose

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

databricks/cli#2968 · 10 comments · Opened Jun 2, 2025

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Add UC table resource support to databricks asset bundle
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DABs Enhancement No Autoclose

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

databricks/cli#2961 · 9 comments · 11 reactions · Opened May 30, 2025

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[Feature Request] DABs: allow target specific includes
May be free again @andrewnester claimed this 507 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
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DABs Enhancement No Autoclose

databricks/cli#2878 · 8 comments · 15 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened May 14, 2025

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vars set with `deploy` not used by `run`
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DABs Enhancement No Autoclose

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

databricks/cli#2605 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 31, 2025

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[Feature Request] Clean up local bundle cache (.databricks folder) when identity or root path is changed
May be free again @andrewnester claimed this 339 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
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DABs Enhancement No Autoclose

databricks/cli#2431 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 5, 2025

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detect "dirty" git working tree
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DABs Enhancement No Autoclose

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

databricks/cli#1962 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 5, 2024

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