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JupyterHub
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`JupyterHub`_ is the best way to serve `Jupyter notebook`_ for multiple users.
It can be used in a classes of students, a corporate data science group or scientific
research group. It is a multi-user **Hub** that spawns, manages, and proxies multiple
instances of the single-user `Jupyter notebook`_ server.
To make life easier, JupyterHub have distributions. Be sure to
take a look at them before continuing with the configuration of the broad
original system of `JupyterHub`_. Today, you can find two main cases:
1. If you need a simple case for a small amount of users (0-100) and single server
take a look at
`The Littlest JupyterHub <https://github.com/jupyterhub/the-littlest-jupyterhub>`__ distribution.
2. If you need to allow for even more users, a dynamic amount of servers can be used on a cloud,
take a look at the `Zero to JupyterHub with Kubernetes <https://github.com/jupyterhub/zero-to-jupyterhub-k8s>`__ .
Four subsystems make up JupyterHub:
* a **Hub** (tornado process) that is the heart of JupyterHub
* a **configurable http proxy** (node-http-proxy) that receives the requests from the client's browser
* multiple **single-user Jupyter notebook servers** (Python/IPython/tornado) that are monitored by Spawners
* an **authentication class** that manages how users can access the system
Besides these central pieces, you can add optional configurations through a `config.py` file and manage users kernels on an admin panel. A simplification of the whole system can be seen in the figure below:
.. image:: images/jhub-fluxogram.jpeg
:alt: JupyterHub subsystems
:width: 80%
:align: center
JupyterHub performs the following functions:
- The Hub launches 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,
JupyterHub also provides a `REST API`_.
The JupyterHub team and Project Jupyter value our community, and JupyterHub
follows the Jupyter `Community Guides <https://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/community/content-community.html>`_.
Contents
========
.. _index/distributions:
Distributions
-------------
A JupyterHub **distribution** is tailored towards a particular set of
use cases. These are generally easier to set up than setting up
JupyterHub from scratch, assuming they fit your use case.
The two popular ones are:
* `Zero to JupyterHub on Kubernetes <http://z2jh.jupyter.org>`_, for
running JupyterHub on top of `Kubernetes <https://k8s.io>`_. This
can scale to large number of machines & users.
* `The Littlest JupyterHub <http://tljh.jupyter.org>`_, for an easy
to set up & run JupyterHub supporting 1-100 users on a single machine.
Installation Guide
------------------
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
index-installation
Getting Started
---------------
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
getting-started/index
Technical Reference
-------------------
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
reference/index
Contributing
------------
We want you to contribute to JupyterHub in ways that are most exciting
& useful to you. We value documentation, testing, bug reporting & code equally,
and are glad to have your contributions in whatever form you wish :)
Our `Code of Conduct <https://github.com/jupyter/governance/blob/master/conduct/code_of_conduct.md>`_
(`reporting guidelines <https://github.com/jupyter/governance/blob/master/conduct/reporting_online.md>`_)
helps keep our community welcoming to as many people as possible.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
contributing/index
Eventlogging and Telemetry
--------------------------
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
events/index
Administrators guide
--------------------
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
troubleshooting
admin/upgrading
changelog
API Reference
-------------
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
api/index
About JupyterHub
----------------
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
index-about
Indices and tables
==================
* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
Questions? Suggestions?
=======================
- `Jupyter mailing list <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/jupyter>`_
- `Jupyter website <https://jupyter.org>`_
.. _JupyterHub: https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub
.. _Jupyter notebook: https://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
.. _REST API: http://petstore.swagger.io/?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub/master/docs/rest-api.yml#!/default