🤹‍♀️Extensibility

The workspace provides a high degree of extensibility. Within the workspace, you have full root & sudo privileges to install any library or tool you need via terminal (e.g., pip, apt-get, conda, or npm). You can open a terminal by one of the following ways:

• Jupyter: New -> Terminal

• Desktop VNC: Applications -> Terminal Emulator

• JupyterLab: File -> New -> Terminal

• VS Code: Terminal -> New Terminal

Additionally, pre-installed tools such as Jupyter, JupyterLab, and Visual Studio Code each provide their own rich ecosystem of extensions. The workspace also contains a collection of installer scripts for many commonly used development tools or libraries (e.g., PyCharm, Zeppelin, RStudio, Starspace). You can find and execute all tool installers via Open Tool -> Install Tool. Those scripts can be also executed from the Desktop VNC (double-click on the script within the Tools folder on the Desktop VNC).

Example (click to expand...)

For example, to install the Apache Zeppelin notebook server, simply execute:

/resources/tools/zeppelin.sh --port=1234

After installation, refresh the Jupyter website and the Zeppelin tool will be available under Open Tool -> Zeppelin. Other tools might only be available within the Desktop VNC (e.g., atom or pycharm) or do not provide any UI (e.g., starspace, docker-client).

As an alternative to extending the workspace at runtime, you can also customize the workspace Docker image to create your own flavor as explained in the FAQ section.