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Is this something that is open source so that other schools could use it?

If I'm allowed a shameless plug (I'm the developer), there is ElastiCluster [1] which can deploy (among others) JupyterHub on various IaaS cloud infrastructures. We have used it at UZH to provide teaching environments for various courses. By default it only comes with the local "passwd" authenticator, but anything that works with Jupyter or Linux/PAM can be used relatively easily (= write an Ansible playbook).

Feel free to reach out to me if you would like more info.

[1]: https://gc3-uzh-ch.github.com/elasticluster

Most of the implementation is open source. Authentication module is separate as it's part of our Canvas app work, but it will likely be open sourced soon. We've also done implementations which authenticate via GitHub...

https://github.com/harvard/cloudJHub

There is a lot of work on the jupyterhub organization that provide custom authenticator (GitHub, laugh) feel free to reach out if you want to migrate your work there. Curious also why the existing GitHub Oauth did not work for you.

Yeah, we need to get back in touch with the Jupyter Project folks to see if there is anything we've done that might be useful feeding back into the project in any way. I'm not 100% sure on the Oauth stuff, I am but the lowly PM. I've punted the question over to the dev lead, who may comment further (though not sure if he has an HN account).

Ok, Great, i saw the other comment, JupyterHub is about to be released in version 0.9 – so if there are changes you like to go in, there is still some time. Feel free to send PR that add Canvas to the list of known Authenticators[1] for other to find it easily.

I know there've been some work to have instructions on how to deploy on AWS, and work on the k8s helm charts to do so[2] if that can be of help. If any work could be consolidated to both decrease the workload of you (and us), that would be good. Are any of you attending JupyterCon in August ? In person feedback is always welcome (Sturday August 25th is open, free, Community Day/ hackathon / sprint/ open studio, where the Jupyter team will be there)

1: https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub#authenticators 2: https://zero-to-jupyterhub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/amazon/s...

If you're interested in JupyterHub and Kubernetes, you should take a look at Kubeflow, which also includes support for Tensorflow:

https://github.com/kubeflow/kubeflow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6iMznIYwM8

Dev has no account so relaying this:

"we had an issue with Oauth when we upgraded JupyterHub version 0.7 to version 0.8. The instance spawner we wrote needed to be updated to fix the issue. The case that opened about this in our repository* fixed with the latest update of the instance spawner"

So it seems we could be using GitHub standard OAuth now. But 95% of our implementations utilize Canvas auth reconciling with our university AD.

*https://github.com/harvard/cloudJHub/issues/2

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