JupyterHub Integration

[Arnav]

Hello,

I maintain a JupyterHub service for my department (currently Julia and Python), and a professor has asked us to support Sage. I've played around with it, but without much luck; the issue seems to be that Sage's Python interferes with the main JupyterHub. I can't find a quick fix.

Does anyone have a working setup (say, in a Dockerfile) that I could look at for this? If it helps, the precise setup we're using for our Hub is here: https://github.com/arnavs/docker-stacks/blob/julia-after-resize/pims-julia/Dockerfile.

Thanks, and please let me know if this isn't the correct place to post.

--- Arnav

[E. Madison Bray]

Hi Arnav,

Could you elaborate on "the issue seems to be that Sage's Python interferes with the main Jupyter Hub"?

The way Jupyter works is each kernel is essentially an abstract process that it passes messages between using zeromq, so in principle Sage's Python shouldn't be able to "interfere" with JupyterHub. Not saying it's not possible but it's not obvious what you mean by this.

[Pedro A. Garcia]

Arnav,

If you are using docker you may want to have a look at

https://github.com/sagemath/sage-binder-env

I took that as a starting point for 

https://github.com/pedritomelenas/Algebra-conmutativa-y-computacional/blob/master/Dockerfile

But the question is, if you have jupyterhub installed on the server, why you do not simply install sage's kernel?

Hope this helps,

Pedro

[Arnav]

Thanks all for the information. Will have a look and report back (and see if I can get a more precise sense of the issues I was facing.)