Creating a Jupyter Notebook Server on Google Cloud

notebook-steps.sh

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### From Google Cloud Console
# from the navigation menu, under the Networking > VPC Network > Firewall rules

click 'CREATE FIREWALL RULE'
set Name
set Targets to 'All instances in the network'
set source IP range to '0.0.0.0/0'
set protocols and port to 'Allow all'
click create

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### From Cloud Terminal
# Create permenant configuation file
jupyter notebook --generate-config

# Create a password
jupyter notebook password

# Copy SHA1 password hash from the /.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.json!

# Add the following lines to the jupyter config file
nano ~/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py
### If you're lost run locate jupyter_notebook_config.py

# Make sure all the below is UNCOMMENTED and values set for the `jupyter_notebook_config.py`
c.NotebookApp.ip = '<* or `Internal IP` if you are using Google Compute Engine>'
c.NotebookApp.password = u'<your SHA1 hashed password from .json file>'
c.NotebookApp.open_browser = False
c.NotebookApp.port = 8888 # This can be anything and changed as you wanted