Custom connectors

Custom connectors is a Databricks data engineering capability, introduced May 2026.

Your own Lakeflow Connect connector for a source with no managed one: implement the LakeflowConnect Python interface from the community connectors repository, then deploy and run it in your workspace without contributing it anywhere.

• The template repository ships AI-powered development tools, so building one starts with a /develop-connector command. 🔗
• The whole contract is a handful of methods - list the tables, describe a schema, then yield records as plain Python dictionaries along with the next offset. 🔗
• Its recommended write-back tests actually write to your real source, then read it back to prove incremental reads and deletes work. 🔗

Category

Data engineering

Introduced

May 2026🔗

Also known as

Build a custom connector, Custom connector for Lakeflow Connect, LakeflowConnect interface

Verified

2026-10-20