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- | ===== BYOI: Bring your own (Singularity) Image ===== | + | ===== BYOI: Bring your own (Apptainer/Singularity) Image ===== |
- | It is possible to use a custom singularity image with our JupyterHub profiles. | + | It is possible to use a custom |
- | A good starting point is to have a look at the official JupyterHub Docker Stacks Images @ [[https:// | + | ==== Necessary Packages ==== |
- | In a nutshell its necessary to install | + | A good starting point for creating your own container is the documentation of the official JupyterHub Docker Stacks Images @ [[https://github.com/jupyter/docker-stacks|Docker-Stacks]] |
- | Optionally: If your image needs to run hooks before starting | + | Apart from adding |
+ | < | ||
+ | # This package pulls in all the necessary dependencies to start a jupyter server | ||
+ | # Make sure this always matches | ||
+ | jupyterhub==3.1.1 | ||
- | Unfortunately the batchspawner | + | # This package |
+ | git+https://github.com/katringoogoo/ | ||
+ | </ | ||
- | The script can be found at [[https:// | + | In addition we usually also install the following jupyterlab extensions in our images but they are not strictly necessary and just provide extended functionality like memory monitoring for the user: |
+ | * jupyterlab-system-monitor | ||
+ | * jupyterlab-git | ||
+ | * jupyterlab-widgets (or jupyterlab_widgets in conda) | ||
- | In addition we also install the following jupyterlab extensions | + | **An up 2 date list of packages can always be found in our repo: [[https:// |
- | * jupyterlab-system-monitor | + | |
- | * jupyterlab-git | + | |
- | * jupyterlab-widgets | + | |
- | An up 2 date list of packages can always be found in our repo: [[https://gitlab.tuwien.ac.at/vsc/vsc-jupyterhub-notebooks/ | + | === Run hooks from /usr/local/bin/before-notebook.d === |
- | In order to then use the image with JupyterHub you have to convert it to a singularity image and place it into a folder that is accessible from the VSC compute nodes. | + | If your image needs to run hooks before startup (e.g. the pyspark |
- | Building | + | Unfortunately the batchspawner package does not source them so we are using a custom startscript in our images called `vsc-singleuser.sh`. All it does is to run the hooks from `/usr/local/bin/before-notebook.d` before executing the `batchspawner-singleuser` script. |
+ | The script can be found at [[https:// | ||
- | ===== FAQ ===== | + | Note: Contact us to get read rights to the repository. |
- | * **The OTP SMS says 'login at vsc3'? Is this an issue?** | + | ==== Build your own custom image from a docker image ==== |
- | No this is a current | + | [[https:// |
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+ | If you already have a docker image you want to start from or if you are more familiar with docker image creation you can just use that image and create it into a singularity image after you are finished. | ||
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+ | Note: Make sure that you use the right versions for the current | ||
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+ | After selecting / building the docker image all that needs to be done is to convert it into a **singularity image**. | ||
+ | |||
+ | You can do this by executing the following lines (assuming your docker image is named " | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | singularity build my_image.sif docker:// | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | See the documentation for more examples: [[https:// | ||
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+ | When the conversion process has finished make sure that the resulting " | ||
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+ | Note: the conversion can be done on our cluster since we have singularity installed on our nodes. | ||
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+ | ==== Directly build a singularity/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Instead of starting with docker you can also directly build a singularity image that is ready to use with our JupyterHub instance. | ||
+ | |||
+ | For this you need to create a so called " | ||
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+ | Here is a minimal example using the datascience docker stacks image as a basis: | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | BootStrap: docker | ||
+ | From: jupyter/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | %post | ||
+ | / | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | If we save the file as " | ||
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+ | Please | ||
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+ | * VSC4: module load --auto apptainer/ | ||
+ | * VSC5: module load --auto apptainer/ | ||
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+ | |||
+ | < | ||
+ | # load an apptainer module (see above) | ||
+ | module load --auto apptainer/< | ||
+ | |||
+ | # build the image | ||
+ | apptainer build my_image.sif my_image.def | ||
+ | </ | ||
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+ | If you cannot use the versions provided on VSC you can of course also build the image on your own machine and upload it the VSC. | ||
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+ | ===== FAQ ===== | ||
* **My Server instance is stuck and I get a timeout when I try to reload the window. Going to the VSC jupyterhub website also results in a timeout.** | * **My Server instance is stuck and I get a timeout when I try to reload the window. Going to the VSC jupyterhub website also results in a timeout.** |