Vibe coding with Databricks: Step by step guide to setup your environment

                                        Image is taken from: https://github.com/databricks-solutions/ai-dev-kit

In the era of Agentic AI, vibe coding is gaining popularity, and Databricks Field Engineering has developed a Toolkit for Coding Agents. This blog post provides step-by-step guidelines to help you prepare your environment for vibe coding. 

There are few pre-requisites those needing to install before the Dev tool kit can be installed. Step 1 to 4 are for pre-requisites and step 5 is for the Dev Kit installation. 

Prerequisites 

Step 1: Installing the Python package manger astral 

 If you are using Windows please use the below code to install the python package astral 

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex" 

In case there is an error to install the file, you need to install chocolaty 

Step 2: Install chocolaty 

 Please make sure to open the PowerShell in Administrator mode 

 Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString(‘https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1')) Verify if chocolaty is installed correctly.

                                          Fig 1: validate is choco is installed correctly. 

Step 3: Download and Install Databricks CLI 

Use below CLI command: choco install databricks-cli

                                             Fig 2: download the Databricks CLI

After downloading, install it:

                                         Fig 3: Databricks CLI is installed 

Validate if the CLI is installed properly: databricks -v

                                             Fig 4: Validate the CLI installed properly 

Step 4: Install git with choco 

 Next you need to install git, you can use following command: choco install git -y

                                              Fig 5: Installing git 

Step 5: Install the AI DEV Kit

Since all the pre-requisites are completed, now let’s install the dev kit by using the following command: 

Step 5A: Choose the tools irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/databricks-solutions/ai-dev-kit/main/install.ps1 | iex 

                                          Fig 6: Dev Kit installation 

It will ask for your Databricks existing profile as shown in the below fig 7

Step 5B: select Databricks profile Press enter or click to view image in full size

                                              Fig 7: Profile and MCP server location 

Step 5C: Choose path for MCP and tools The chosen tool, Claude, cursor, copilot and MCP server will be installed.

                                          Fig 8: MCP server configuration path 

Next step is to authenticate: Press enter or click to view image in full size

                                                   Fig 9: Authentication 

After this step it will take you to the browser to authenticate and after you complete the authentication tools and MCP server will be installed Press enter or click to view image in full size

                                         Fig 10: install completed 

As above fig 10 shown, the installation is completed, however, to further configure it Now you can use VS code to open the project and start the vibe coding as shown fig 11 😊 Press enter or click to view image in full size

                          Fig 11: start using Databricks vibe coding with VS code 

You will find more details: https://github.com/databricks-solutions/ai-dev-kit