Jupyter Lab is not the default

[mehemken]

This is great! However, Jupyter Lab is much more versatile and I'd like my team to work on Jupyter Lab. When will Jupyter Lab be the default UI for SageMaker?

Bibliography:

• Why? Notebooks are featureless.
• JupyterLab
• Docs

--Marco

[djarpin]

Thanks @mehemken . We really like Jupyter Lab too and have been keeping a close eye on it. However, I don't currently have a date that I can share with you for it being available in SageMaker Notebook Instances.

[mehemken]

Ok thanks for the feedback.

[ryanpeach]

I'd rather this stay open. This is the natural growth of the platform. Needless to say, as convenient as jupyter notebooks are, full project management is a bit difficult on Sagemaker without a real IDE.

[djarpin]

I'll re-open the issue for visibility. We definitely use customer feedback to help us prioritize SageMaker's feature roadmap. However, I should note that the roadmap is independent from this specific repository. So, even though I initially closed the issue, JupyterLab definitely didn't fall off of our radar.

I should also note that you can still use SageMaker Training and Hosting from your preferred IDE. We think the SageMaker notebook instances are a great way of interacting with the rest of the service, but we also want customers to be able to use SageMaker functionality from their laptops, EC2 instances, Cloud9, etc.

Thanks!

[mehemken]

Thanks @djarpin, is there a place in the documentation that shows how to set that up?

EDIT:
Perhaps I misread that. You're not saying I can host my own Jupyter Lab and have it connect to the notebook instance right? Only that the rest of the platform can be controlled with any arbitrary IDE?

[djarpin]

@mehemken - Correct. I was referring to controlling the rest of the platform with an arbitrary IDE.

[ellisonbg]

HI all, @ellisonbg here (JupyterLab team). JupyterLab can be installed alongside the classic notebook and will be accessible at /lab rather than /tree. This way the default UI for users will remain the classic notebook, but advanced users could type /lab and get to JupyterLab. Let us know if you have questions, we would love to see Lab running in SageMaker!

[newbeb]

@ellisonbg Looks like they are now installing JupyterLab. Changing /tree to /lab works in sagemaker when I try it today.

[djarpin]

We've also begun including a link at the top of the Jupyter Dashboard on SageMaker notebook instances to encourage users to try JupyterLab. Closing this issue for now. Thanks!

[techChanakya]

I was trying to launch jupyterlab on EMR jupyterhub but with no luck. These are the steps I followed

1. Created a new EMR cluster (AMI = 5.22.0) with JupyterHub selected

2. SSH into container
   sudo docker exec -it jupyterhub /bin/bash

3. Install jupyterlab
   conda install jupyterlab

4. Enable jupyterlab
   jupyter serverextension enable --py jupyterlab --user

5. Access jupyerlab using below url
   https://:9443/user/jovyan/lab

I'm seeing a blank page without able to launch jupyterlab.

[dennari]

Hi! Jupyter Lab 1.0 has just been released. Could you update SageMaker to include that? I'd love to be able to use Altair plots.