[winswitch] [xpra] Xpra and JupyterHub

[Troll Berserker]

On 09/07/18 11:33, Matteo Ipri via shifter-users wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 11:32 PM, Troll Berserker via shifter-users <
> shifter-users at lists.devloop.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>> A day ago I finally got a working container with Xpra and the
>> proxy in front of it running without Jupyter notebook server.
>>
>> JupyterHub supports a bunch of different Authenticators and Spawners
>> (for example, we are using KubeSpawner to spawn single-user
>> containers in a Kubernetes cloud)
>> I don't know any other remote desktop project which could be
>> as flexible as JupyterHub+Xpra combination.
>> AFAIK x2go and Apache Guacamole support some sort of load balancing,
>> but I don't think they support, for example, Kubernetes.
>> The disadvantage is that the only way to access Xpra is its HTML5 client.
>>
>> I'm attaching the Dockerfile and the entry script I'm using.
>> This is the first version which is not ideal and has some workarounds and
>> dirty hacks I had to use to make it working.
>> I've found that  Xpra became kinda rebellious: it ignores the orders I
>> give it
>> not to launch dbus and pulseaudio and not to put sockets in an original
>> HOME directory
>> (which is a network-mounted FS which doesn't seem to support sockets and
>> pipes)
>> so I had to install nss-sssd connector to map UIDs to usernames so that
>> the dbus-launch doesn't refuse to start and I had to override the HOME
>> variable.
>>
> 
> The python script is not attached to the mailing list, only the Dockerfile
> has been delivered embedded in the email.
> Can you share again the entrypoint script?

Trying to attach to this message. If it fails see
https://gist.github.com/BerserkerTroll/4f579ada6429dc4b576b996bc786d898

> I am curious of the solution you found for the home folder and the unix
> socket file.

I mount an empty volume at /scratch and point HOME to this directory.
Xpra seem to ignore --socket-dir[s] options...

> I also run JupyterHub which spwans docker containers running xpra.
> I shared my Dockerfile in another thread here on the mailing list (I just
> sent it again copy and pasted in an email since the attachment did not get
> through).

BTW, you don't have to run `apt-get clean` each time, see
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/docker-clean in the Ubuntu Docker images.

> I just run that Dockerfile with vanilla JupyterHub, without nbserverproxy
> and things works, although on the slow side.

So you are just running Xpra without anything in front of it
and you don't require authentication to access it?