Configuring TLJH with tljh-config
¶
tljh-config
is the commandline program used to make configuration
changes to TLJH.
Running tljh-config
¶
You can run tljh-config
in two ways:
From inside a terminal in JupyterHub while logged in as an admin user. This method is recommended.
By directly calling
/opt/tljh/hub/bin/tljh-config
as root when logged in to the server via other means (such as SSH). This is an advanced use case, and not covered much in this guide.
Set / Unset a configuration property¶
TLJH’s configuration is organized in a nested tree structure. You can set a particular property with the following command:
sudo tljh-config set <property-path> <value>
where:
<property-path>
is a dot-separated path to the property you want to set.<value>
is the value you want to set the property to.
For example, to set the password for the DummyAuthenticator, you
need to set the auth.DummyAuthenticator.password
property. You would
do so with the following:
sudo tljh-config set auth.DummyAuthenticator.password mypassword
This can only set string and numerical properties, not lists.
To unset a configuration property you can use the following command:
sudo tljh-config unset <property-path>
Unsetting a configuration property removes the property from the configuration
file. If what you want is only to change the property’s value, you should use
set
and overwrite it with the desired value.
Some of the existing <property-path>
are listed below by categories:
Base URL¶
Use
base_url
to determine the base URL used by JupyterHub. This parameter will be passed straight toc.JupyterHub.base_url
.
Authentication¶
Use
auth.type
to determine authenticator to use. All parameters in the config underauth.{auth.type}
will be passed straight to the authenticators themselves.
Ports¶
Use
http.port
andhttps.port
to set the ports that TLJH will listen on, which are 80 and 443 by default. However, if you change these, note that TLJH does a lot of other things to the system (with user accounts and sudo rules primarily) that might break security assumptions your other applications have, so use with extreme caution.sudo tljh-config set http.port 8080 sudo tljh-config set https.port 8443 sudo tljh-config reload proxy
User Lists¶
users.allowed
takes in usernames to whitelistusers.banned
takes in usernames to blacklistusers.admin
takes in usernames to designate as admins
User Server Limits¶
limits.memory
Specifies the maximum memory that can be used by each individual user. By default there is no memory limit. The limit can be specified as an absolute byte value. You can use the suffixes K, M, G or T to mean Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte or Terabyte respectively. Setting it toNone
disables memory limits.sudo tljh-config set limits.memory 4G
Even if you want individual users to use as much memory as possible, it is still good practice to set a memory limit of 80-90% of total physical memory. This prevents one user from being able to single handedly take down the machine accidentally by OOMing it.
limits.cpu
A float representing the total CPU-cores each user can use. By default there is no CPU limit. 1 represents one full CPU, 4 represents 4 full CPUs, 0.5 represents half of one CPU, etc. This value is ultimately converted to a percentage and rounded down to the nearest integer percentage, i.e. 1.5 is converted to 150%, 0.125 is converted to 12%, etc. Setting it toNone
disables CPU limits.sudo tljh-config set limits.cpu 2
User Environment¶
user_environment.default_app
Set default application users are launched into. Currently can be set to the following valuesjupyterlab
ornteract
sudo tljh-config set user_environment.default_app jupyterlab
Extra User Groups¶
users.extra_user_groups
is a configuration option that can be used
to automatically add a user to a specific group. By default, there are
no extra groups defined.
Users can be “paired” with the desired, existing groups using:
tljh-config set
, if only one user is to be added to the desired group:
tljh-config set users.extra_user_groups.group1 user1
tljh-config add-item
, if multiple users are to be added to the group:
tljh-config add-item users.extra_user_groups.group1 user1
tljh-config add-item users.extra_user_groups.group1 user2
View current configuration¶
To see the current configuration, you can run the following command:
sudo tljh-config show
This will print the current configuration of your TLJH. This is very useful when asking for support!
Reloading JupyterHub to apply configuration¶
After modifying the configuration, you need to reload JupyterHub for it to take effect. You can do so with:
sudo tljh-config reload
This should not affect any running users. The JupyterHub will be restarted and loaded with the new configuration.
Advanced: config.yaml
¶
tljh-config
is a simple program that modifies the contents of the
config.yaml
file located at /opt/tljh/config/config.yaml
. tljh-config
is the recommended method of editing / viewing configuration since editing
YAML by hand in a terminal text editor is a large source of errors.