Executing python on the server

[GonxoMR]

Auto-reviewers: @NiharikaRay @matthewwardrop @earthmancash @danfrankj

Good afternoon,

I was wondering if there is a way to add a .ipynb to the knowledge repo so the user can moddify and run the code online. We are intending to have small tools built in notebooks to the users to run. Is there a way that the user can make small changes in the notebook?

Thank you, Gonxo

[jdavidheiser]

I think it would make a lot of sense to build some clean hooks to the existing Dockerspawner Jupyter ecosystem, where a lot of effort has gone into making containerized Jupyter notebooks really easy to manage.

[matthewwardrop]

@GonxoMR So far, we've never considered having knowledge posts be modified and executed on the server itself. It's far from impossible, but it just has not been the focus of our work.

I guess you are thinking along the lines of having the content of the knowledge post be fixed/protected, and allowing specific cells or fields to be modified and run by viewers? Such a thing would be cool, and patches are welcome!

There's a fair number of things that I want to get nailed down before heading in this direction myself, though. I'd also want to have some clear use cases in mind, because I think it could be technically challenging, and I'd want to have clear justification for the investment.

[GonxoMR]

Hi @matthewwardrop @jdavidheiser,

Thank you for your comments. Matt, that is exactly what I was thinking about. :)