Jupyter integration

New in version 0.8.0.

The web-based LiberTEM GUI can be integrated into existing JupyterLab and JupyterHub installations. That way, the existing authentication and user management infrastructure of Jupyter can be re-used to offer LiberTEM as a service. The LiberTEM GUI will have access to the same data that is available to Jupyter notebooks.

Note

Currently, Jupyter integration is only tested on Unix, not on Windows.

Installation

Note

Currently, a fork of jupyter-server-proxy needs to be used, which includes a fix to allow restarting LiberTEM after a graceful shutdown, see also jupyter-server-proxy/215. The fork also includes other unreleased but necessary changes from the master branch of jupyter-server-proxy. Installation can be done with the following commands, after having followed the installation instructions below:

(jupyter-venv) $ git clone git@github.com:sk1p/jupyter-server-proxy.git
(jupyter-venv) $ cd jupyter-server-proxy && git checkout websocket-fix-plus-restart
(jupyter-venv) $ pip install .

Note that this needs to be done in the environment where libertem-jupyter-proxy was installed.

As a first step, you will need to install LiberTEM-jupyter-proxy into the Python environment where JupyterHub or JupyterLab is installed. Then, you will also need an installation of LiberTEM, which can live in either the same Python environment, or in its own.

In case of a separate Python environment for LiberTEM, you will need to tell LiberTEM-jupyter-proxy how to start the libertem-server. This is done with a simple JSON configuration file. The configuration file needs to be saved in the Python environment where LiberTEM-jupyter-proxy is installed. If the virtualenv that contains the Jupyter installation is created at /opt/jupyter/venv/, the configuration filename should be /opt/jupyter/venv/etc/libertem_jupyter_proxy.json. The contents should look like this:

{"libertem_server_path": "/opt/libertem/venv/bin/libertem-server"}

This allows to separate the Jupyter installation from the LiberTEM installation. The given path can also point to a wrapper script, for example for further environment preparations, like loading modules on an HPC system. The wrapper script should forward any arguments it reveices to the libertem-server call.

Usage

When the installation is finished, you can find the LiberTEM GUI as an entry in the New menu in JupyterHub:

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Or as a launcher icon in JupyterLab:

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