Test compatibility with Pangeo default images

[rabernat]

It would be great if we could just use the environment defined by https://github.com/pangeo-data/pangeo-docker-images and https://github.com/pangeo-gallery/default-binder for all of this course. We need to check the content there.

[tjcrone]

Last year CUIT was happy to use the Pangeo images, but they rebuilt them themselves and hosted the Docker images separately. If I needed to make a change to the image, I would need to contact them, have them rebuild off of my new Dockerfiles etc.. Having CUIT host the Jupyterhub was great and if we go that route again, I would see if we can get them to pull the images directly from Pangeo. Not sure if they will do that.

[rabernat]

Unfortunately CUIT is not supporting JupyterHubs any more! 😢

I am thinking to have them use regular Pangeo cloud (the google cloud version).

[tjcrone]

Wow that's too bad. I'm surprised because it was a great success and they were good at it. I agree that the Pangeo Cloud is probably the best solution at this stage. I wonder if the funding stream that supported the CUIT Jupyterhubs on GCP is still in place. We may be able to attach some of this funding to the Pangeo ops.