Allow users to push to GitHub#
We use gh-scoped-creds to allow users to safely push to GitHub from their JupyterHub. This requires a little setup on the hub side to make the user experience seamless.
Create a GitHub app under the 2i2c organization with the settings outlined in the gh-scoped-creds docs
Set environment variables
gh-scoped-creds
needs to figure out which GitHub app to use in the appropriate.values.yaml
file for the hub in question.jupyterhub: singleuser: extraEnv: GH_SCOPED_CREDS_CLIENT_ID: <client-id-of-the-github-app> GH_SCOPED_CREDS_APP_URL: <public-url-of-the-github-app>
Note
If the hub is a
daskhub
, nest the config under abasehub
keyGet this change deployed!
Make sure the gh-scoped-creds python package is available inside the user image.
This blog post
provides more details on how users on the JupyterHub can use gh-scoped-creds
to
push changes to GitHub!