Allow Users to Create Kernels on Littlelist JuypterHub?

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Hello,

I am looking at setting up a Littliest JuypterHub on a single powerful server which would serve ~30 people. However, we would want to allow users to create their own conda environments as it wouldn’t work to have everyone share a single environment.

Can this be done? Or do I need to setup JuypterHub using the Zero-to-Kubernetes even though we’ll only be running it on a single machine? Or can I setup JuypterHub another way?

I would rather not have to give everyone sudo rights to allow them to create their own environments.

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I think so:

  1. Use nb-conda-kernel extension to help identify kernels in conda environments
  2. Help users create conda kernels in their home directories, maybe with configuration of conda/mamba

Can’t verify things further from my mobile atm, but something along those lines may very well work – you centralize some key plugins and config in the environment starting the jupyter server, ans they create stuff in their home dirs

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Ah great, so If I install nb-conda-kernel in the server’s conda environment, then the users should be able to use conda kernels from their home directories? I’ll have to have a play around when I get access to the server.

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Relevant config of nb-conda-kernels will be where to look for kernels - inte the users home dirs somewhere, which is also why you want to help users configure some default destination for the kernels to be within there home dirs