Minimal Jupyter Notebook Stack
What it Gives You
- Jupyter Notebook 4.0.x
- Conda Python 3.x
- No preinstalled scientific computing packages
- Unprivileged user
jovyan
(uid=1000, configurable, see options) in groupusers
(gid=100) with ownership over/home/jovyan
and/opt/conda
- tini as the container entrypoint and start-notebook.sh as the default command
- Options for HTTPS, password auth, and passwordless
sudo
Basic Use
The following command starts a container with the Notebook server listening for HTTP connections on port 8888 without authentication configured.
docker run -d -p 8888:8888 jupyter/minimal-notebook
Notebook Options
You can pass Jupyter command line options through the start-notebook.sh
command when launching the container. For example, to set the base URL of the notebook server you might do the following:
docker run -d -p 8888:8888 jupyter/minimal-notebook start-notebook.sh --NotebookApp.base_url=/some/path
You can use this same approach to sidestep the start-notebook.sh
script and run another command entirely. But be aware that this script does the final su
to the jovyan
user before running the notebook server, after doing what is necessary for the NB_USER
and GRANT_SUDO
features documented below.
Docker Options
You may customize the execution of the Docker container and the Notebook server it contains with the following optional arguments.
-e PASSWORD="YOURPASS"
- Configures Jupyter Notebook to require the given password. Should be conbined withUSE_HTTPS
on untrusted networks.-e USE_HTTPS=yes
- Configures Jupyter Notebook to accept encrypted HTTPS connections. If apem
file containing a SSL certificate and key is not provided (see below), the container will generate a self-signed certificate for you.-e NB_UID=1000
- Specify the uid of thejovyan
user. Useful to mount host volumes with specific file ownership.-e GRANT_SUDO=yes
- Gives thejovyan
user passwordlesssudo
capability. Useful for installing OS packages. You should only enablesudo
if you trust the user or if the container is running on an isolated host.-v /some/host/folder/for/work:/home/jovyan/work
- Host mounts the default working directory on the host to preserve work even when the container is destroyed and recreated (e.g., during an upgrade).-v /some/host/folder/for/server.pem:/home/jovyan/.local/share/jupyter/notebook.pem
- Mounts a SSL certificate plus key forUSE_HTTPS
. Useful if you have a real certificate for the domain under which you are running the Notebook server.
Conda Environment
The default Python 3.x Conda environment resides in /opt/conda
. The commands ipython
, python
, pip
, easy_install
, and conda
(among others) are available in this environment.