This git repo contains a collection of utilities, that together make up the architecture behind nbhosting.inria.fr that is designed as a notebook-serving infrastructure.
First use case is for hosting notebooks in the context of MOOCs. See e.g.
- Python : des fondamentaux à l'utilisation du langage on fun-mooc.fr
- Bioinformatique : algorithmes et génomes on fun-mooc.fr
On the edx side, teacher would create a bloc typed as ipython notebook - note that the present repo does not address the code for the edx extension that supports this type of blocs (ref?); it is reaily available at this point (jan. 2017) at fun-mooc.fr.
Here's what a student would see;
Here's the general principle of how of works
- Open-edX forges a URL, like the one shown above, with
studentreplaced with the hash of some student id - This is caught by nginx, that runs forefront; the
ipythonExercice/prefix is routed to a django application, that primarily does this- create a linux user if needed
- create a copy of that notebook for the student if needed
- spawns a (docker) jupyter instance for the couple (course, student)
- redirects to a (plain https, on port 443) URL that contains the (http/localhost) port number that the docker instance can be reached at
As a summary:
As of end of June 2017, the platform seems fit to run the next Python3 - MOOC next November.
See Issues on github for an up-to-date status.