Localhost Reference Server¶

Unity Catalog comes with Localhost Reference Server that can be launched on command line using ./bin/start-uc-server utility.

❯ ./bin/start-uc-server -h
usage: bin/start-uc-server
 -h,--help         Print help message.
 -p,--port <arg>   Port number to run the server on. Default is 8080.
 -v,--version      Display the version of the Unity Catalog server

start-uc-server runs UnityCatalogServer to handle REST API requests at a port (specified using -p or --port option or defaults to 8080).

Note

The REST API requests can come from any Unity Catalog API-compatible client, incl. Unity Catalog CLI.

Server Configuration¶

The Localhost Reference Server uses etc/conf/server.properties file for server configuration.