nbhosting 0.1.0

An infrastructure for hosting notebooks beind an open-edX MOOC platform

# notebook hosting architecture

This git repo contains a collection of utilities, that together make up the architecture behind nbhosting.inria.fr that is designed as a notebook-serving infrastructure.

First use case is for hosting notebooks in the context of MOOCs. See e.g.

• [Python : des fondamentaux à l’utilisation du langage on fun-mooc.fr](https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/inria/41001S03/session03/about)

• [Bioinformatique : algorithmes et génomes on fun-mooc.fr](https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/inria/41003S02/session02/about)

# Open-edX teacher side

On the edx side, teacher would create a bloc typed as ipython notebook - note that the present repo does not address the code for the edx extension that supports this type of blocs (ref?); it is reaily available at this point (jan. 2017) at fun-mooc.fr.




# Open-edX student side

Here’s what a student would see;


# nbhosting side

Here’s the general principle of how of works

• Open-edX forges a URL, like the one shown above, with student replaced with the hash of some student id

• This is caught by nginx, that runs forefront; the ipythonExercice/ prefix is routed to a django application, that primarily does this * create a linux user if needed * create a copy of that notebook for the student if needed * spawns a (docker) jupyter instance for the couple (course, student) * redirects to a (plain https, on port 443) URL that contains the (http/localhost) port number that the docker instance can be reached at

As a summary:


# TODO

A lot remains to be done, incuding using github’s issues for tracking what remains to be done ;) For now see [doc/TODO-nbhosting.md](doc/TODO-nbhosting.md)