[FR] Add support for Vertex Workbench notebooks

[GeorgePearse]

Motivation

Fast CV dataset visualisations in GCP notebooks

What areas of FiftyOne does this feature affect?

FiftyOne UI in notebook

Details

The UI doesn't render in a Vertex Workbench notebook

Willingness to contribute

I will be trying to get it to work, not necessarily succeeding.

[GeorgePearse]

So what I did was get gcloud working with VSCode via the google cloud extension (on my Mac locally)

then run:

gcloud compute ssh --project <project-name> \
    --zone <zone-name> \
    <instance-name> -- -L 5151:localhost:5151

in the vscode terminal (for whatever reason standard terminal did not have access to gcloud)

create a python file via the Vertex AI Workbench with:

pseudo-code for the load_dataset bit

import fiftyone as fo

dataset = load_dataset(...)

# Enable connections from remote hosts
session = fo.launch_app(dataset, remote=True, address="0.0.0.0")

and then I could access the fiftyone UI from localhost:5151 on my Mac which will do for now.