Saturday 15:00–15:45 in Expert

Running jupyter notebook remotely in a docker swarm cluster

Jordi Deu-Pons

Audience level:
Intermediate

Description

The current version of Jupyter Notebook computes the document state at the browser side, this is a problem if you run long jobs in a remote notebook from a laptop. If you close the browser you lose all the output of the current running cell. I will explain how we solved this problem in our lab. This solution it also allows a "walkie-talkie" like real-time collaboration.

Abstract

The solution is based on running a docker container with a browser and a VNC server. All the remote access to the notebooks is done using Apache Guacamole a clientless remote desktop gateway. Everything is running on a dynamic docker swarm cluster of 20 nodes. As a lateral effect, this solution it also allows a real-time collaboration between users in a way that multiple users can access at the same time the same desktop (but they have to fight for the mouse and the keyboard).

https://github.com/jordeu/pytalks/tree/master/20170520_pydata_jupyter_in_a_docker_cluster

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