The great benefit of the Unity catalog is that data is ours and stored in an open format on cloud storage in our container. To install the unity catalog, we need to create storage and give databricks access to that storage so metastore can be made through the admin console.

We will use Azure Cloud and Azure Data Lake Storage in that manual.

Storage account

We need to search for “Storage accounts” in the Azure portal.

In the storage account, we hit Create button.

On the next page, the most important is to use the region as our databricks region, and on the advanced page, please select it as Data Lake Storage Gen2.

We need to go to create a storage account, and we need to create a container on which we will store metastore.

We need to remember the storage account and container name as we will later use it in metastore settings as <storage_account_name>@<container_name>.dfs.core.windows.net/ Copy and save so we will use it later.

Access Connector for Azure Databricks

Now we need to give databricks access to our storage. So we need to search for “Access Connector for…