I have installed binder locally following the contributor instructions. I have created a config.yaml file like so: config: GitLabRepoProvider: private_token: ... access_token: ... However, I can’t figure out how to get binder to read the values. I’ve tried updating the helm args in testi…

How do you start your BinderHub? In the contributing docs this is step 9. So you don’t have to set things in a config.yaml, instead I’d modify the testing/minikube/binderhub_config.py it references. I think it would be something like c.GitLabRepoProvider.access_token. I haven’t tried doing this in …

I followed step 9 exactly the first time: python3 -m binderhub -f testing/minikube/binderhub_config.py. The thing I expected to work was python3 -m binderhub -f testing/minikube/binderhub_config.py -f config.yaml. Everything else I tried was because that didn’t work. I thought I tried editing testi…

If you want to use a config.yaml you need to use helm to deploy your hub to the kubernetes cluster. The developer docs don’t go into detail on how to run your locally checked out BinderHub code inside the kubernetes cluster because it is a bit tedious (docker images need building, etc). I think co…

Thanks for explaining @betatim :slightly_smiling_face:. Looking again it seem like it should work if I add a git_credentials property to my config formatted like "username\npassword". I’ll be sure to try that next.

Unfortunately, I struggled to get a local deployment working. I had problems with minikube not exposing the external IPs for JupyterHub/Binder services (seems to be a long-standing issue with minikube, kubernetes/minikube#2834 ). It’s something I’m personally interested in though as I move away from …

I got it working by adding the following lines to testing/minikube/binderhub_configy.py: c.GitLabRepoProvider.private_token = 'my_api_token' c.GitLabRepoProvider.git_credentials = 'username=my_username\npassword=my_api_token' But I had to add make the git_credentials property configurable in binde…

[image] katylava: Is there another way or should I submit a PR for that? My expectation was that git_credentials would have been inherited from the RepoProvider base class: jupyterhub/binderhub/blob/6b2908d7aaf4a7ec62beed0019de54db06494214/binderhub/repoproviders.py#L76-L81 …

It didn’t work until I added it to GitLabRepoProvider with config=True. I’m not sure why it’s not configurable in RepoProvider, but I thought maybe there was a reason for it. Anyway I’ll submit a PR and I’m sure someone will tell me the right way to do it.

Here’s my pull request: https://github.com/jupyterhub/binderhub/pull/823

How do you configure Binder when running locally with minikube?

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