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Databricks Runtime 5.5

Published 2019-07-22 by Kevin Feasel

Bilal Aslam and Yifan Cao announce Databricks Runtime 5.5:

Secrets API in R notebooks
The Databricks Secrets API [Azure|AWS] lets you inject secrets into notebooks without hardcoding them. As of Databricks Runtime 5.5, this API is available in R notebooks in addition to existing support for Python and Scala notebooks. You can use the dbutils.secrets.get function to obtain secrets. Secrets are redacted before printing to a notebook cell.

There are some good updates in this release. Read on for the full list.

Published in Hadoop and Spark