Change port from 8888 to say 7777 in JupyterLab Dockerfile?

General
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I need to setup a Docker JupyterLab image to port 7777 instead of the default 8888. I tried to setup the Dockerfile with

ENV JUPYTER_PORT 7777

and also using “-e” parameter through “docker run” command line. This is how I tried to ran the image:

#!/bin/bash
docker run -p 7777:7777 -e JUPYTER_PORT=7777 -v "$PWD":/home/jovyan/work jupyter/mytest

None of them worked so far, with the following log:

Container must be run with group root to update passwd file
Executing the command: jupyter notebook
[I 07:15:53.098 NotebookApp] Writing notebook server cookie secret to /home/jovyan/.local/share/jupyter/runtime/notebook_cookie_secret
[W 07:15:53.457 NotebookApp] WARNING: The notebook server is listening on all IP addresses and not using encryption. This is not recommended.
[I 07:15:53.519 NotebookApp] JupyterLab beta preview extension loaded from /opt/conda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/jupyterlab
[I 07:15:53.519 NotebookApp] JupyterLab application directory is /opt/conda/share/jupyter/lab
[I 07:15:53.538 NotebookApp] Serving notebooks from local directory: /home/jovyan
[I 07:15:53.538 NotebookApp] 0 active kernels
[I 07:15:53.538 NotebookApp] The Jupyter Notebook is running at:
[I 07:15:53.538 NotebookApp] http://[all ip addresses on your system]:8888/?token=9a9c4cde9e9b167a1d21ac494ec0377626045a7d5c7181eb
[I 07:15:53.538 NotebookApp] Use Control-C to stop this server and shut down all kernels (twice to skip confirmation).
[C 07:15:53.539 NotebookApp] 
    
    Copy/paste this URL into your browser when you connect for the first time,
    to login with a token:
        http://localhost:8888/?token=9a9c4cde9e9b167a1d21ac494ec0377626045a7d5c7181eb

Is there any way to setup the file ~/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py as suggested here as this:

c.NotebookApp.port = 7777

in the Dockerfile?
My current Dockerfile is:

FROM jupyter/datascience-notebook:9f9e5ca8fe5a

# Install in the default python3 environment
COPY requirements.txt /tmp/
RUN pip install --requirement /tmp/requirements.txt && \
    fix-permissions $CONDA_DIR && \
    fix-permissions /home/$NB_USER
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Do you need Jupyter to run as port 7777 inside the Docker container, or is it sufficient to map port 7777 outside to 8888 inside:

docker run -it --rm -p 7777:8888 jupyter/base-notebook

The displayed connection URL will be incorrect, you’ll need to replace 8888 with 7777 but otherwise http://127.0.0.1:7777/?token=TOKEN should work.

3

Hi manics.

I tried but unfortunately it didn’t worked. I don’t know in which case I would need to change the internal container port, or if would it help. I need to access this notebook from external world, so that could be an issue?
Any other ideas are more than welcome

Hernán

4

This May '20 PR seems to add what you’re looking for: Add env variable support for port options (#5221) · jupyter/notebook@d2d50f1 · GitHub

docker run -it --rm -p 7777:7777 jupyter/base-notebook start.sh jupyter lab --port 7777

5

You may also need to disable to update the Dockerfile “HEALTHCHECK”
or you will finds the container dying after around 46 seconds of run time!

6

Using jupyter/minimal-notebook:notebook-6.5.3, the JUPYTER_PORT environment variable seems to work as expected at least for me.

According to the docs: Common Features — Docker Stacks documentation (jupyter-docker-stacks.readthedocs.io)

  • -e JUPYTER_PORT=8117 - Changes the port in the container that Jupyter is using to the value of the ${JUPYTER_PORT} environment variable. This may be useful if you run multiple instances of Jupyter in swarm mode and want to use a different port for each instance.