Services

Module: jupyterhub.services.service

A service is a process that talks to JupyterHub.

Types of services:
Managed:
  • managed by JupyterHub (always subprocess, no custom Spawners)
  • always a long-running process
  • managed services are restarted automatically if they exit unexpectedly
Unmanaged:
  • managed by external service (docker, systemd, etc.)
  • do not need to be long-running processes, or processes at all
URL: needs a route added to the proxy.
  • Public route will always be /services/service-name
  • url specified in config
  • if port is 0, Hub will select a port
API access:
  • admin: tokens will have admin-access to the API
  • not admin: tokens will only have non-admin access (not much they can do other than defer to Hub for auth)

An externally managed service running on a URL:

{
    'name': 'my-service',
    'url': 'https://host:8888',
    'admin': True,
    'api_token': 'super-secret',
}

A hub-managed service with no URL:

{
    'name': 'cull-idle',
    'command': ['python', '/path/to/cull-idle']
    'admin': True,
}

Service

class jupyterhub.services.service.Service(**kwargs)

An object wrapping a service specification for Hub API consumers.

A service has inputs:

  • name: str
    the name of the service
  • admin: bool(false)
    whether the service should have administrative privileges
  • url: str (None)
    The URL where the service is/should be. If specified, the service will be added to the proxy at /services/:name

If a service is to be managed by the Hub, it has a few extra options:

  • command: (str/Popen list)
    Command for JupyterHub to spawn the service. Only use this if the service should be a subprocess. If command is not specified, it is assumed to be managed by a
  • environment: dict
    Additional environment variables for the service.
  • user: str
    The name of a system user to become. If unspecified, run as the same user as the Hub.
kind

The name of the kind of service as a string

  • ‘managed’ for managed services
  • ‘external’ for external services
managed

Am I managed by the Hub?