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by cheptsov 713 days ago
Can I use it to connect to a remote Jupyter notebook server?
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Not yet! But I'm working on this :)
That will be interesting. Happy to test and share feedback. Previously, I was a part of the DataSpell and PyCharm team building notebook support. Now working with dstack, where we support dev environments and super interested in remote support.
Thanks! I'll let you know when it's ready. What do you use now to work with remote environments? JupyterLab or VS Code?
We use a self-hosted JupyterLab. I would love to have an external tool though our existing workflow isn’t too bad.
Right now, mostly VSCode - mainly because it’s a desktop IDE and it also supports notebooks.
I use jupyterlab via an SSH tunnel
ah, I def need remote for my current use case - the web interface just isn't that nice to use!
This is the feature, I want.
Do you have an existing workflow for that? I tried to set up some thing like that a couple years ago and couldn't figure out how to do it without copy-pasting the connection info JSON, which was not a comfortable workflow.
Im working exclusively with a remote connection (although inside the company network, so some security concerns don’t apply). I have Jupyter running as a service on Linux and am using a password instead of the generated token. So the URL stays the same and I don’t have to worry about anything much. The setup is working good for me - there are a couple of nuisances but they’re all related to the rest of my circumstances and use case, not to anything mentioned above.
Ah, so you have Jupyter itself running remotely? I was hoping you had a good workflow for starting or connecting to remote kernels using a local Jupyter frontend. This seems like such an obvious use case, but the ecosystem support for it is surprisingly poor. I've tried and failed several times over the years to figure out a workflow that a regular scientist or industry data analysit could follow.