Replace Databricks Community Edition with Lighthouse [1]

[TomeHirata]

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What changes are proposed in this pull request?

We stop supporting MLflow remote access to Databricks Community Edition (CE). Instead, we recommend that users use Databricks for a free trial. This PR replaces the existing CE page with new content for Databricks free trial. Changes for tutorials will be addressed in follow-up PRs.

How is this PR tested?

• Existing unit/integration tests
• New unit/integration tests
• Manual tests

Does this PR require documentation update?

• No. You can skip the rest of this section.
• Yes. I've updated:
  • Examples
  • API references
  • Instructions

Release Notes

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Document update to replace Community Edition with Databricks free trial.

What component(s), interfaces, languages, and integrations does this PR affect?

Components

• area/artifacts: Artifact stores and artifact logging
• area/build: Build and test infrastructure for MLflow
• area/deployments: MLflow Deployments client APIs, server, and third-party Deployments integrations
• area/docs: MLflow documentation pages
• area/examples: Example code
• area/model-registry: Model Registry service, APIs, and the fluent client calls for Model Registry
• area/models: MLmodel format, model serialization/deserialization, flavors
• area/recipes: Recipes, Recipe APIs, Recipe configs, Recipe Templates
• area/projects: MLproject format, project running backends
• area/scoring: MLflow Model server, model deployment tools, Spark UDFs
• area/server-infra: MLflow Tracking server backend
• area/tracking: Tracking Service, tracking client APIs, autologging

Interface

• area/uiux: Front-end, user experience, plotting, JavaScript, JavaScript dev server
• area/docker: Docker use across MLflow's components, such as MLflow Projects and MLflow Models
• area/sqlalchemy: Use of SQLAlchemy in the Tracking Service or Model Registry
• area/windows: Windows support

Language

• language/r: R APIs and clients
• language/java: Java APIs and clients
• language/new: Proposals for new client languages

Integrations

• integrations/azure: Azure and Azure ML integrations
• integrations/sagemaker: SageMaker integrations
• integrations/databricks: Databricks integrations

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• Yes (this PR will be cherry-picked and included in the next patch release)
• No (this PR will be included in the next minor release)

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[B-Step62]

Can we move these instruction to getting-started/databricks-trial/index.html? Ideally the guide should be accessible from every tutorial not only from this one.

[TomeHirata]

Moved most parts to getting-started/databricks-trial/index.html and changed the content in the tracking server overview to point to the page.

[B-Step62]

LGTM!

[B-Step62]

(not a blocker) What about making these pros/cons as a single table and put at the top of this doc, so users can compare side-by-side? Having three Conclusion paragraphs feel a bit strange when reading.

[TomeHirata]

Good call, let me do it as a follow up.