Configure the hub with the Configurator

The JupyterHub configurator allows admins to change a subset of hub settings without requiring involvement from 2i2c engineers.

Warning

Be careful while changing these settings! We don’t expose anything that can make the hub inaccessible to admins, but you can still change things that break user server starts. You can always fix it by undoing the change that broke it, and a way to see the ‘version history’ of your config changes is in the works.

Access the Configurator

The Configurator is only available to admins, and can be accessed from the control panel. You can access the Control Panel in the following ways:

1. In classic Jupyter notebook, click the Control Panel button in the top right.

2. In JupyterLab, select File -> Hub control panel from the menu bar.

3. For other interfaces (like RStudio), you can accses it with the following URL: https://<hub-url>/hub/home.

Once you’re at the control panel, you can access the configurator under Services in the top navigation bar. It will ask you to authenticate to the configurator so it knows you are an admin. Once done, you will see the configurator interface!

Make and save changes

This interface should now let you change some settings and save them. They should take effect next time you or any of your users start a server.

Warning

You must click the submit button at the bottom of the form for your changes to take effect!

Available settings

The following settings are currently available via the Configurator.

Note

More settings are slowly being made accessible over this interface, so if you have specific ideas on what should be added here, please create an issue

User docker image

The docker image that will be launched for each user. This controls the languages, libraries and interfaces accessible to the user. You can leave it blank to use the default image maintained by 2i2c. We also have more information on how to manage your user environment.

Default interface

Sets the default interface your users will see when they log in.

Note

If you are using a custom docker image, you should make sure these interfaces are available in your docker image! If you used repo2docker to build your images (which we recommend), the interfaces should be automatically available.

Note

There’s a ‘interface selector’ in the hub home page, but unfortunately that does not reflect this option. So if your user selects an interface there, they will be put in that interface but just for the first time after they log in. After that, your selection here will determine what UI they will see.