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A nightly GitHub Actions workflow deploys the team's Automation Bundle to production. The workflow must authenticate to the Databricks workspace without any human interaction, and the security team has banned personal access tokens that belong to individual engineers in CI systems. Which setup should the team use for the Databricks CLI in the workflow?

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  1. A. Embed the credentials of a shared admin user in the workflow definition and run databricks auth login interactively at the start of every run
  2. B. Create a service principal, then set DATABRICKS_HOST, DATABRICKS_CLIENT_ID, and DATABRICKS_CLIENT_SECRET as environment variables
  3. C. Rotate a personal access token borrowed from a different engineer each month and store it as the workflow's secret
  4. D. Run the CLI from a VM in the same VPC as the workspace so that network proximity replaces authentication
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Correct answer: Create a service principal, then set DATABRICKS_HOST, DATABRICKS_CLIENT_ID, and DATABRICKS_CLIENT_SECRET as environment variables

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dev-tools/cli

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Official Answer (B): Create a service principal, then set DATABRICKS_HOST, DATABRICKS_CLIENT_ID, and DATABRICKS_CLIENT_SECRET as environment variables

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