Woohoo! Super excited to try this out - perfectly matches our usage case

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> On Oct 15, 2016, at 8:16 AM, Kyle Kelley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> That's awesome Yuvi. Love seeing the embrace of systemd.
> 
>> On Tuesday, October 11, 2016, Yuvi Panda <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I'm proud to announce the initial release of a Systemd Spawner for
>> JupyterHub. You can install it from PyPI as
>> `jupyterhub-systemdspawner`, and read the documentation at
>> https://github.com/jupyterhub/systemdspawner
>> 
>> If you want to use Linux Containers (Docker, rkt, etc) for isolation and
>> security benefits, but don't want the headache and complexity of
>> container image management, then you should use the SystemdSpawner.
>> It uses Systemd (https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/), a linux
>> init system that is used by most modern Linux distros, to provide
>> these features.
>> 
>> With the **systemdspawner**, you get to use the familiar, traditional system
>> administration tools, whether you love or meh them, without having to learn 
>> an
>> extra layer of container related tooling.
>> 
>> The following features are currently available:
>> 
>> 1. Limit maximum memory permitted to each user.
>> 
>>    If they request more memory than this, it will not be granted (`malloc`
>>    will fail, which will manifest in different ways depending on the
>>    programming language you are using).
>> 
>> 2. Limit maximum CPU available to each user.
>> 
>> 3. Provide fair scheduling to users independent of the number of processes 
>> they
>>    are running.
>> 
>>    For example, if User A is running 100 CPU hogging processes, it will 
>> usually
>>    mean User B's 2 CPU hogging processes will never get enough CPU
>> time as scheduling
>>    is traditionally per-process. With Systemd Spawner, both these
>> users' processes
>>    will as a whole get the same amount of CPU time, regardless of
>> number of processes
>>    being run. Good news if you are User B.
>> 
>> 4. Accurate accounting of memory and CPU usage (via cgroups, which
>> systemd uses internally).
>> 
>>    You can check this out with `systemd-cgtop`.
>> 
>> 5. `/tmp` isolation.
>> 
>>    Each user gets their own `/tmp`, to prevent accidental information
>>    leakage.
>> 
>> 6. Spawn notebook servers as specific local users on the system.
>> 
>>    This can replace the need for using SudoSpawner.
>> 
>> 7. Restrict users from being able to sudo to root (or as other users)
>> from within the
>>    notebook.
>> 
>>    This is an additional security measure to make sure that a compromise of
>>    a jupyterhub notebook instance doesn't allow root access.
>> 
>> 8. Restrict what paths users can write to.
>> 
>>    This allows making `/` read only and only granting write privileges to
>>    specific paths, for additional security.
>> 
>> 9. Automatically collect logs from each individual user notebook into
>>    `journald`, which also handles log rotation.
>> 
>> You can find more information at
>> https://github.com/jupyterhub/systemdspawner/blob/master/README.md.
>> 
>> I'm currently working on deploying this at both UC Berkeley and at
>> Wikimedia, and will release a 1.0 version once they have been running
>> in production for a while without issues. Feature requests / Issues
>> welcome! I'm also available on the JupyterHub Gitter
>> (https://gitter.im/jupyterhub/jupyterhub) to answer questions too!
>> 
>> Thanks a lot to @willingc, @aculich & @ryanlovett for their helping
>> make this release happen! <3
>> 
>> --
>> Yuvi Panda T
>> http://yuvi.in/blog
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