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Published inApr 2018
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Dan Toomey
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Dan Toomey has been developing application software for over 20 years. He has worked in a variety of industries and companies, in roles from sole contributor to VP/CTO-level. For the last few years, he has been contracting for companies in the eastern Massachusetts area. Dan has been contracting under Dan Toomey Software Corp. Dan has also written R for Data Science, Jupyter for Data Sciences, and the Jupyter Cookbook, all with Packt.
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Providing multiuser with Docker


Docker is another mechanism that can be used to allow multiple users of the same Notebook without collision. Docker is a system that allows you to construct sets of applications into an image that can be run in the Docker container (much like ships at a dock).

Docker runs in most environments. Docker allows many instances of an image to be run in the same machine, but each maintains a separate address space. So, each user of a Docker image has their own instance of the software and their own set of data/variables. Exactly what we are looking for with our Notebook!

Each image is a complete stack of software necessary to run, for example, a web server, web applications, APIs, and so on.It is not a large leap to think of an image of your Notebook. The image contains Jupyter server code and your Notebook. The result is a completely intact unit that does not share any space with anyone else.

Getting ready

Installing Docker involves downloading the latest version (the...

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Published in: Apr 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788839440

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Dan Toomey has been developing application software for over 20 years. He has worked in a variety of industries and companies, in roles from sole contributor to VP/CTO-level. For the last few years, he has been contracting for companies in the eastern Massachusetts area. Dan has been contracting under Dan Toomey Software Corp. Dan has also written R for Data Science, Jupyter for Data Sciences, and the Jupyter Cookbook, all with Packt.
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