SwanCuller

JupyterHub service that checks and cleans user sessions. It also calls bash scripts to check/renew kerberos tokens for the users, if their sessions still exist, or remove them if not in use.

Requirements

This module requires and installs Tornado.

Installation

Install the package:

pip install swanculler

Usage

Call the binary and specify configuration parameters:

swanculler --cull_every=600

Configuration parameters:

• url: The JupyterHub API URL (default=$JUPYTERHUB_API_URL)
• timeout: The idle timeout (in seconds) (default=600)
• cull_every: The interval (in seconds) for checking for idle servers to cull (default=0)
• max_age: The maximum age (in seconds) of servers that should be culled even if they are active (default=0)
• cull_users: Cull users in addition to servers (default=False)
• concurrency: Limit the number of concurrent requests made to the Hub (default=10)
• hooks_dir: Path to the directory for the krb tickets script (check_ticket.sh) (default="/srv/jupyterhub/culler)
• disable_hooks: Whether to call the krb tickets scripts or not (default=False)