Add Docker image selector to login page

[mrocklin]

This would allow research groups (like @rsignell-usgs and @tjcrone) to craft their own software environments rather than depend on our vanilla environment.

A path to support this is described by @minrk and @choldgraf at #109

The steps there seem somewhat accessible if anyone wants to take a crack at it. This would, I think, have a large impact. If I were to start this I would experiment locally with a vanilla Zero-to-JupyterHub deployment on minikube

[mrocklin]

cc @rabernat in case you're still looking for intern projects. My take on this is that it requires coming up to speed on a few things, but it's mostly about following pretty-good documentation.

[rabernat]

Very useful idea. You're right that this sounds like a good intern project. I'll talk to @tjcrone and see what he thinks.

[rabernat]

@jacobtomlinson pointed us to this:

jupyterhub/kubespawner#135 (comment)

[mrocklin]

@jhamman if you're interested in another JupyterHub related task, this would be a very valuable one :)

[jacobtomlinson]

Also related to jupyterhub/kubespawner#135

[mrocklin]

jupyterhub/kubespawner#137 was just merged if anyone wants to investigate this. I think it would help out users with different environment needs like @rsignell-usgs and @ocefpaf

[dopplershift]

(not actually merged yet)

[jgerardsimcock]

I am trying to implement this on my deployment. So far, I've been unsuccessful but working on it. When I get it going, I can draft some documentation and make a pr to Pangeo. Are there docker images on dockerhub that @rsignell-usgs and @ocefpaf can point to for reference?

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