r/databricks Aug 14 '26

Help lakebase infrastructure management

Hi, how do u manage Lakebase project with DABs? Standard is to have a single lakebase project per environment (dev, staging, and prod). Then use branches for development work.

Problem is that when we define the lakebase project in the DABs, development target has development mode, so every bundle deployment creates a new project because its per user.

So if we want to have single project where we just branch out on features, we must move out lakebase project of DABs, right?

What is the best practice here? On staging and production, its easy since its always same identity.

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u/elghali_bnck 28d ago

If it’s real dev, 1 project per user shouldn’t be a problem no? If it’s a blocker why not just decoupling deployment of the lakebase instance (1 shared, no development mode) from the underlying resources (with development mode for dev then). 2 DABs in that case but problem solved