Setting up Development Environment#

The easiest & safest way to develop & test TLJH is with Docker.

  1. Install Docker Community Edition by following the instructions on their website.

  2. Clone the git repo (or your fork of it).

  3. Build a docker image that has a functional systemd in it.

    docker build -t tljh-systemd . -f integration-tests/Dockerfile
    
  4. Run a docker container with the image in the background, while bind mounting your TLJH repository under /srv/src.

    docker run \
      --privileged \
      --detach \
      --name=tljh-dev \
      --publish 12000:80 \
      --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)",target=/srv/src \
      tljh-systemd
    
  5. Get a shell inside the running docker container.

    docker exec -it tljh-dev /bin/bash
    
  6. Run the bootstrapper from inside the container (see step above): The container image is already set up to default to a dev install, so it’ll install from your local repo rather than from github.

    python3 /srv/src/bootstrap/bootstrap.py --admin admin
    

    Or, if you would like to setup the admin’s password during install, you can use this command (replace “admin” with the desired admin username and “password” with the desired admin password):

    python3 /srv/src/bootstrap/bootstrap.py --admin admin:password
    

    The primary hub environment will also be in your PATH already for convenience.

  7. You should be able to access the JupyterHub from your browser now at http://localhost:12000. Congratulations, you are set up to develop TLJH!

  8. Make some changes to the repository. You can test easily depending on what you changed.

    • If you changed the bootstrap/bootstrap.py script or any of its dependencies, you can test it by running python3 /srv/src/bootstrap/bootstrap.py.

    • If you changed the tljh/installer.py code (or any of its dependencies), you can test it by running python3 -m tljh.installer.

    • If you changed tljh/jupyterhub_config.py, tljh/configurer.py, /opt/tljh/config/ or any of their dependencies, you only need to restart jupyterhub for them to take effect. tljh-config reload hub should do that.

Looking at Logs has information on looking at various logs in the container to debug issues you might have.