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Getting Started with External Catalogs

The how-to guides linked on this page illustrate how to link an external catalog with Immuta to ingest tags and add value to the Immuta modules: Secure and Discover.

Best practice: external catalog

Use a single catalog; having more than one can lead to multiple truths and data leaks.

Requirement: A catalog with tags that correspond to your Immuta data sources

Configuration process

  1. Connect your Alation catalog to Immuta.
  2. When changes are made to the external catalog, refresh external tags.

Requirements:

  • A physical data dictionary with assets that correspond to your Immuta data sources
  • The Collibra global role Catalog or Catalog Author

Configuration process

  1. Connect your Collibra catalog to Immuta.
  2. When changes are made to the external catalog, refresh external tags.

Requirements:

Configuration process

  1. Connect your custom REST Catalog to Immuta.
  2. When changes are made to the external catalog, refresh external tags.

Requirements:

Configuration process

  1. Configure Databricks Unity Catalog integration.
  2. Configure Databricks Unity tag ingestion in Immuta.
  3. Register Databricks data sources in Immuta.

Once you register data sources, table and column tags from Databricks Unity Catalog will be ingested and applied to the corresponding data sources in Immuta.

Requirements:

  • A Snowflake user who can set the following permissions:

    1. GRANT IMPORTED PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE snowflake
    2. GRANT APPLY TAG ON ACCOUNT

  • Snowflake Enterprise Edition or higher

Configuration process

  1. Configure Snowflake tag ingestion in Immuta.
  2. When changes are made to the tags in Snowflake, refresh external tags.