Databricks asset bundles sound interesting, but they also require you to upload files to the Databricks environment.. which is something I tried to avoid.

The "Admin Settings" should be available if you're a Workspace Admin. If you can't see the "Container Services" toggle, you can just send a PATCH request like this (as you suggested):

curl -X PATCH -n \

https://<databricks-instance>/api/2.0/workspace-conf \

-d '{

"enableDcs": "true"

}'

According to the docs, you'll get a 204 response.