---
title: "CI Drift Gate for Unity Catalog"
slug: "ci-drift-gate"
type: recipe
locale: en-US
canonical: "https://www.coremodels.io/recipe/databricks/ci-drift-gate"
updatedAt: "2026-08-27T01:42:16+03:00"
---

# CI Drift Gate for Unity Catalog

Wire a Unity Catalog drift gate into CI, and keep it honest after merge.

Import your SQL-editor extracts, run the first audit, and wire the audit gate into CI with a status badge. CI re-extracts the schema (e.g. via databricks-sql-cli against a staging catalog) and calls the API-key surface (POST v1/{projectId}/integrations/databricks/audit); data.errorCount > 0 fails the build.

## Articles

- [Fail the Build, Not the Dashboard: A CI Drift Gate for Databricks Unity Catalog](https://www.coremodels.io/connector/databricks/t4-automation)