JupyterHub

With JupyterHub you can create a multi-user Hub which spawns, manages, and proxies multiple instances of the single-user Jupyter notebook server. Due to its flexibility and customization options, JupyterHub can be used to serve notebooks to a class of students, a corporate data science group, or a scientific research group.

JupyterHub subsystems

Three subsystems make up JupyterHub:

  • a multi-user Hub (tornado process)
  • a configurable http proxy (node-http-proxy)
  • multiple single-user Jupyter notebook servers (Python/IPython/tornado)

JupyterHub’s basic flow of operations includes:

  • The Hub spawns a proxy
  • The proxy forwards all requests to the Hub by default
  • The Hub handles user login and spawns single-user servers on demand
  • The Hub configures the proxy to forward URL prefixes to the single-user notebook servers

For convenient administration of the Hub, its users, and Services (added in version 7.0), JupyterHub also provides a REST API.

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