Create a new cluster in Databricks using databricks-cli

Just to add to the answer that @MorShemesh gave, you can also use a path to a JSON file instead of specifying the JSON at the command line.

databricks clusters create --json-file /path/to/my/cluster_config.json 

If you are managing lots of clusters this might be an easier approach.

I found the right answer here.

The correct format to run this command on azure is:

databricks clusters create --json '{ "cluster_name": "my-cluster", "spark_version": "4.1.x-scala2.11", "node_type_id": "Standard_DS3_v2", "autoscale" : { "min_workers": 2, "max_workers": 50 } }'