Clarify what it means to deploy a "Data8 style hub"

[sgibson91]

Context

Every now and then, I am asked to deploy a hub with a "Data8 style" image and, as an engineer who was never involved in that project, it holds no meaning for me.

2i2c have started moving towards using upstream, community managed images (such as scipy-notebook and rocker) for user images, and away from the previous in-house maintained image, so there isn't really a "default" image that we deploy.

If we are going to be selling "Data8 style" hubs, we should defined exactly which image (or set of images) we mean when we say that, to reduce the back and forth between engineering and partnerships regarding what actually needs to be deployed.

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[GeorgianaElena]

YES!!!! This also confuses me!

[colliand]

Good to know! I'd like us to build a menu of "standard images" to eliminate this confusion. I'd also like to build a form so that hub launch specs are collected in a structured format. I've started investigating that with AirTable.

[sgibson91]

So I think two standard images we've adopted are jupyter/scipy-notebook and rocker/r-binder for python and R environments separately. We have forks of both these in 2i2c-org GitHub that additionally include nbgitpuller until that package is added upstream. Note that both of these images are managed by communities external to 2i2c (but there may be overlap and we should provide some labour to help since we depend on them, but that's a different discussion).

[damianavila]

So I think two standard images we've adopted are jupyter/scipy-notebook and rocker/r-binder for python and R environments separately. We have forks of both these in 2i2c-org GitHub that additionally include nbgitpuller until that package is added upstream.

I would encourage using these ones ⬆️ instead of the cloudbank-specific image (which is pretty similar given it is inherited from the scipy-notebook as well, IIRC) given some recent customizations they had (that might be problematic for others): 2i2c-org/cloudbank-data8-image#5

[colliand]

It will be helpful for 2i2c to develop a catalog of images. What images does 2i2c use? For which audiences?

[jmunroe]

The images currently available on showcase.2i2c.cloud are the ones I've been suggesting to communities as a starting point:

In January, we plan on developing guides/tutorials on how to customize these community-maintained base images.