[IPython-dev] ipython html notebook server on dotcloud

[Carl Smith]

You may want to speak to the PaaS provider. A lot of what you'd like to do
comes down to how their platform works. IPython is not your typical web app.
On Sep 5, 2012 11:58 PM, "Brian Granger" <ellisonbg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shoibal,
>
> Hi, these are things we are interested in.  There are a number of
> different issues you are bringing up:
>
> * Making the notebook server multiuser aware.  This is definitely on
> our radar and we are trying to get this work funded through academic
> grants.  We are at the early stages of the planning of this.
> * Running the notebook server on PaaS platforms.  This is an entirely
> separate issue that we will have to revisit in the future - stay tuned
> for more on this in the coming months.  One issue you will run into
> though is that we rely on zeromq/pyzmq which definitely doesn't run on
> most of the Paas vendors I know of.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Shoibal Chakravarty <shoibalc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just got interested in the possibility of getting ipython html notebook
> > server on the various Platform as a Service (PaaS) ideas out there:
> > Openshift, dotcloud, heroku, appfog etc. I was interested in seeing if I
> > could get people to try out my other python projects  [energy economics
> > modeling] without having to take the trouble of downloading and
> compiling a
> > lot of different packages. I would put everything required on one of
> these
> > free PaaS services and have them try it out via the ipython notebook
> > interface.
> >
> > Carl Smith's  notebookcloud (http://github.com/carlsmith) was another
> > inspiration. The PaaS approach is a baby version of  the AMI approach of
> > notebookcloud. I let the PaaS vendors take care of the building and
> > maintaining the AWS infrastructure. It also happens to be completely free
> > for small applications.
> >
> >
> > Most of the Paas services do not support websockets and and often expect
> > only wsgi compliant python web servers. Only  dotcloud
> > (http://www.dotcloud.com/) seems to work for now with tornado and
> > websockets. See http://github.com/shoibalc/ipynbserver-dotcloud.
> >
> >
> > I am still concerned about security implications of the notebook server.
> > Ideally, I would like  the following:
> >
> > 1. Let anybody login with a login/passwd or the various authentication
> > services.
> > 2. Give them a secure walled-in temporary directory to work in, with
> > restricted shell function access.
> > 3. Limit resources they use (memory, CPU load etc) and automatically log
> > them out if the violate this.
> > 4. Limit sessions to xx minutes.
> > 5. Set up a parallel database service for authentication and to let users
> > save their notebooks etc. (eg, MongoDB uses json as storage)
> >
> > Which of these would be easily feasible? Especially point 2. Sage seems
> to
> > create (and later destroy) a temporary working directory for each cell
>  and
> > severely limits shell access. One directory per login with limited
> outside
> > access might be better.
> >
> > Please let me know what ideas/suggestions you have. Thanks a lot for
> > ipython!
> >
> > -Shoibal.
> >
> >
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>
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> Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
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