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Isolinear

A fast, keyboard-driven terminal UI for managing Databricks secrets — browse scopes, secrets, and permissions across three panes without ever leaving your terminal.

Isolinear browsing secrets

Isolinear puts the full lifecycle of Databricks secret scopes, secrets, and ACLs behind a calm, three-pane browser. Drill from scopes into their secrets, reveal and copy values on demand, and review your effective access — all driven by the keyboard.

Highlights

  • Three-pane browser — scopes, secrets, and a rich detail pane (identity, your access, the full ACL list, and the revealed value).
  • Global search — Ctrl+F fuzzy-matches scope/key across the whole workspace and jumps straight to the secret.
  • Full CRUD with undo — create, edit, move/copy/rename, and delete secrets and scopes, with confirmation on destructive actions and U to restore.
  • Bulk .env import/export — load a scope from a .env file; export keys (or values, clipboard-only) back out.
  • Permissions / ACLs — grant, change, or remove READ / WRITE / MANAGE, plus a who-has-access lookup for any principal.
  • Lazy reveal, short-lived — values are fetched only when you reveal or copy them, never bulk-loaded, and a revealed value hides itself after 30 seconds.
  • Copy as code — Shift+C copies a dbutils.secrets.get(...), Spark-conf, or CLI reference for notebooks and job specs.
  • Authorization overview & stale-secret audit — one-key views of your effective permission on every scope, and of every secret overdue for rotation.
  • Keyboard-first — vim and arrow navigation, fuzzy filtering, sortable tables, and a command palette; preferences persist across sessions.
  • Direct connect & read-only mode — isolinear prod --read-only drops you into a workspace with every mutation disabled.
  • No pre-configuration — connect by Databricks Asset Bundle, ~/.databrickscfg profile, or workspace URL (OAuth).

Quick start

uvx isolinear

uv tool install isolinear
isolinear

On launch, Isolinear opens a workspace picker that discovers connection targets automatically. Pick one, press Enter, and you're in.

Next steps