Building custom notebooks

Though RHODS comes with a few in-built notebooks that you can use, you may require a different library version and/or dependency, or you may want to add your organization certificates to the notebook. The point is there can be many reasons why the provided notebooks may require some tuning.

In this section, you will learn how to tune the existing notebook images, import third-party notebook images, and create your custom notebook images.

RHODS allows you to bring notebook images into the platform, either by importing an existing container image from a registry such as DockerHub, Quay, or any other container registry, or by customizing an existing notebook image. Let’s look at how to create custom notebook images and import them into RHODS.

Creating a custom notebook image

Creating custom notebook images follows a standard container image build process. This involves creating a Dockerfile that describes how the container image is to be built...