afcarl / ipydra

Web interface for spawning IPython Notebook servers.

ipydra

Web interface for spawning IPython Notebook servers. Includes an admin interface for listing spawned notebooks.

Used in PyCon 2013 tutorial: https://us.pycon.org/2013/schedule/presentation/28/

usage

1. install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. copy the ipydra.cfg.default to ipydra.cfg and configure

3. create the db file

from ipydra import db, create_app
db.create_all(app=create_app())

4. create ipython notebook profile

ipython profile create nbserver

5. run the development server

python ipydra/runserver.py

or make an wsgi file and server it from apache

""" example wsgi file with virtualenv"""
activate_this = '/home/ubuntu/repos/venv/bin/activate_this.py'
execfile(activate_this, dict(__file__=activate_this))

import site
site.addsitedir('/home/ubuntu/repos/ipydra')

from ipydra import create_app
application = create_app()

notes

• Flask development server will fail to restart if child notebook servers are still running. Not sure if there's a fix for this, but it doesn't happen with apache.

• Exposing IPython notebooks listening on all IP addresses is highly insecure. I highly recommend running this in a dedicated VM or sandboxed environment.

credits

Author: Zach Howard (https://github.com/zhwrd)

Thanks to ipython-hydra (https://github.com/cni/ipython-hydra) for inspiration.