Hi All, I am very new to the prefect , Can anyone ...
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Hi All, I am very new to the prefect , Can anyone suggest me how to schedule Azure Databricks notebook via prefect with examples are much appreciated @Marvin help with it Thanks in advance
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It appears that scheduling jobs in Prefect is central to its operation as an orchestrator. You can create schedules automatically on a desired cadence for any flow deployment. This can be done through the Prefect UI or programmatically via
cron
,
interval
, or
rrule
parameters when building your deployment using the
serve
method or the
Flow
object. While I couldn't locate an explicit document on using Azure Databricks with Prefect, typically integration with such services would be accomplished either through a custom task in Prefect or a dedicated integration. However, I can give you a general idea on how you could approach this problem. Here's an example outline of steps you might follow to schedule an Azure Databricks notebook execution with Prefect: 1. Create an Azure Databricks job: Before anything else, ensure that your notebook is configured as a job on the Azure Databricks service. 2. Set up authentication: Make sure your Prefect flow has the necessary permissions and authentication tokens to communicate with Databricks. 3. Create a Prefect custom task: You'd likely need to write a custom Prefect task that makes use of the Databricks API to start the job. The task would be responsible for calling the API that triggers your notebook. 4. Define the schedule in Prefect: Utilize Prefect's scheduling features to define how frequently this task should run. 5. Deploy the flow with the schedule: Once you've defined the flow with the task and attached a schedule to it, you would deploy this flow within Prefect which would handle the periodic execution. Since specifics about running Azure Databricks notebooks from Prefect are not readily available in the excerpts, I would recommend checking the Prefect community channels or documentation for potentially existing integrations or examples from other users who have done something similar. Additionally, it may help to refer to the Azure Databricks API documentation to understand how to programmatically interact with your notebooks. If you would like, I can search GitHub issues for examples or queries related to integrating Azure Databricks with Prefect. Would you like me to proceed with that?
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yes please help me to this I can search GitHub issues for examples or queries related to integrating Azure Databricks with Prefect.
@Marvin Is there any GIT repo available for to schedule Azure Databricks notebook via prefect
m
It appears there are no GitHub issues directly related to scheduling Azure Databricks notebooks via Prefect. If you're looking for examples or repositories containing this functionality, you might want to try searching with broader terms, check the official Prefect documentation or community resources, or perhaps start a discussion in the Prefect community forums. However, if you're trying to achieve this, you'll likely use the Prefect Databricks integration to run notebooks and schedule them as part of a Prefect workflow.