Environment variables for serverless jobs are in Beta

BetaAug 3, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Environment variables for serverless Lakeflow Jobs tasks are in Beta . You can define named environment variable entries at the job level and select one for each task to pass deployment-specific configuration to your application code. A workspace admin must enable the preview from the workspace Previews page.

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https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/release-notes/product/2026/august#environment-variables-for-serverless-jobs-are-in-beta

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