[Platform Initiative] Roll out jupyterhub-fancy-profiles for all hubs

[yuvipanda]

The profile selection screen is what users see after they log in to the hub - so it's the 'logged in homepage' of the hub. Currently, most hubs use the standard profile screen that comes with kubespawner, so it looks like this:

As part of the GESIS grant, we created jupyterhub-fancy-profiles, a more modern (and backwards compatible) replacement for the profile selector. It looks like this:

It also allows for connecting to a binderhub backend to allow for dynamic image building on the fly, and is a pre-requisite for enabling 'build-your-own' image features.

We have rolled this out to a few well used hubs (primarily NASA VEDA) for a few months without issue. This initiative tracks rolling this out to all our communities

Backwards compatibility

jupyterhub-fancy-profiles is designed to be fully backwards compatible with the existing upstream profiles work, so config change is needed.

Hubs affected

• ohw
• ucmerced
• itccocean
• ncar-cisl
• showcase
• lis
• awi-ciroh
• catalystproject-africa (all)
• catalystproject-latam (all)
• dubois
• earthscope
• gridsst
• hhmi
• jupyter-meets-the-earth
• kitware
• leap
• nasa-cryo
• nasa-ghg
• nasa-veda
• nmfs-openscapes
• openscapes
• opensci/sciencecore
• pangeo-hubs
• pchub
• projectpythia
• queensu
• smithsonian
• strudel
• ubc-eoas
• victor

Definition of done

• jupyterhub-fancy-profiles is rolled out to all existing hubs
• It is on by default for all new hubs
• We write a blog post announcing this change

[yuvipanda]

I've been testing this on a bunch of different hubs today, and fixed a couple minor bugs that I discovered (along with @oliverroick). I will roll this out early in the morning tomorrow (thursday) and watch for support tickets if they come!

[yuvipanda]

I'm going to roll it out by hand, testing each hub as I go. I made a list of hubs this should go out to on the issue description

[yuvipanda]

Before:

After:

[yuvipanda]

Blog post at 2i2c-org/2i2c-org.github.io#338. I think once that's done, we can mark this initiative as completed.

[jnywong]

2i2c-org/2i2c-org.github.io#338 merged.

I've also updated the Service Guide docs to reflect this change 2i2c-org/docs#247.

Marking this as complete 🎉