Using GitHub for Azure Databricks notebook version control

Apart from using Azure DevOps for version control of your Azure Databricks notebooks, you can also use GitHub. Using a specific type of version control depends upon the organizational, project, and business needs. In this recipe, you will learn how to integrate a GitHub repository with Azure Databricks to version control your notebooks.

Getting ready

Before starting with this recipe, you need to ensure that you have generated a personal access token, which is used for authentication to GitHub. To generate a personal access token, go through the steps mentioned at the following link: https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/creating-a-personal-access-token.

You need to only select the repo scope as shown in the following screenshot; other scopes are not required before generating the token:

Figure 9.14 – GitHub Personal access...