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Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have:

  • A Lakebase Autoscaling project accessible from both the Databricks UI and CLI. Commands identify it by project name, not by host.
  • The Databricks CLI, authenticated with a profile for that workspace.
  • psql available on your PATH for the SQL steps.
  • Podman or Docker with the compose plugin — required only for the optional Grafana dashboards.

Lakebase CDF is enabled later, in Step 4, rather than beforehand. It operates on the lakets_cdf schema and its shadow table, both of which LakeTS provisions for you: the schema during install, and the shadow when enable_sync runs during setup.

Authentication

No static passwords are required. The jobs authenticate with machine-to-machine OAuth automatically; for psql, you generate a short-lived token (covered in the next step). Grafana is the exception — it cannot refresh tokens, so its setup page describes the alternative.