Error path not found

Question

We are seeing following error in thein the pipeline

Unable to locate executable file: 'databricks'. Please verify either the file path exists or the file can be found within a directory specified by the PATH environment variable

Answer 1

Hi tarun k

If you're using a Linux-based agent, add this step before any databricks commands:

- script: |
    pip install databricks-cli --upgrade
    databricks --version
  displayName: 'Install Databricks CLI'

To install or upgrade the Databricks CLI tool on an agent with Python already installed, you can use pip.

If the Databricks CLI is already installed and you want to ensure it is updated to the latest version, you would use

pip install --upgrade databricks-cli

If the Databricks CLI is not installed, you would use:

pip install databricks-cli

Since your agent already has Python, just add this:

- script: |
    pip install databricks-cli
    databricks --version
  displayName: 'Install Databricks CLI'

Additional References:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/dev-tools/cli/install

Hope this helps!

Please Let me know if you have any queries.

Answer 2

Hello tarun k,

Thanks for your question.

This error means that the Azure DevOps pipeline cannot find the databricks CLI tool in the build agent’s environment.

You may need to install it. Try these steps in your pipeline.

steps:
- task: UsePythonVersion@0
  inputs:
    versionSpec: '3.x'

- script: |
    pip install --upgrade databricks-cli
  displayName: 'Install Databricks CLI'

- script: |
    databricks --version
    # Place your Databricks CLI commands here
  displayName: 'Run Databricks CLI Commands'

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/dev-tools/auth/auth-with-azure-devops

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Abiola