Remote Jupyter Notebook Helper

example_session

josh@jump:~$ ./bin/notebook.sh                                  
Container not running, starting up                              
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In another terminal (or exit this and reconnect) then run:      
        ssh -L 8080:localhost:32771 josh@jump.XYZ       
Then open your browser to http://localhost:8080                 
When you're done, save system resources by running              
        ./bin/notebook.sh clean
        
josh@jump:~$ ./bin/notebook.sh                                  
Container already running                                       
In another terminal (or exit this and reconnect) then run:      
        ssh -L 8080:localhost:32771 josh@jump.XYX       
Then open your browser to http://localhost:8080                 
When you're done, save system resources by running              
        ./bin/notebook.sh clean
        
josh@jump:~$ ./bin/notebook.sh clean                            
Cleaning up container                                           
josh_notebook                                                   
josh_notebook                                                   

notebook.sh

#!/bin/bash

## Manage a jupyter notebook container automatically.
##    start (or by default if no arg is given)
##      Checks to see if the container is started
##      If so, leaves it running, else, starts it
##      Prints the ssh command to connect to it
##
##    clean
#       Finds the container, stops, removes it


WORKDIR=$HOME/work/notebooks
CONTAINERNAME="${USER}_notebook"

clean() {
   echo "Cleaning up container"
   docker stop $CONTAINERNAME
   docker rm $CONTAINERNAME
}

launch() {
    RUNNING=$(docker inspect --format="{{ .State.Running }}" $CONTAINERNAME 2> /dev/null)
    if [ "$RUNNING" != "true" ];then
	    echo "Container not running, starting up"
	    mkdir -p $WORKDIR
	    sudo chgrp 100 $WORKDIR
	    docker run -d -v $WORKDIR:/home/jovyan/work --name $CONTAINERNAME -P jupyter/datascience-notebook start-notebook.sh
    else
	    echo "Container already running"
    fi
    PORT=$(docker port $CONTAINERNAME | cut -d ':' -f 2)
    echo -e "In another terminal (or exit this and reconnect) then run:\n\tssh -L 8080:localhost:$PORT $USER@$HOSTNAME"
    echo "Then open your browser to http://localhost:8080"
    echo -e "When you're done, save system resources by running\n\t$0 clean"
}

if [ "$1" == "clean" ]; then
    clean
else
    launch
fi