Plugins of JupyterHub

[ka-sarthak]

I can spin up JupyterHub from nomad-dev-distro using the Poe script. However, the JupyterHub does not contain the plugins that are available as sub-modules. I think it is pulling the image from GitLab.

Perhaps we can build a custom JupyterHub image locally with the plugins pre-installed. This can be triggered by uv run poe hub setup. This will be very convenient.

[lauri-codes]

@fekad is currently refactoring the whole NORTH setup: the idea is that you will no longer run the hub through a NOMAD command, but instead it becomes it's own service with it's own image that is a part of docker-compose.yaml. This helps us separate out the dependencies (e.g. nomad-lab should no longer depend on jupyterhub) and makes for cleaner communication between NOMAD and NORTH (e.g. we can rely more on the native jupyterhub API for communication with the NORTH).

When this refactoring is ready, we can re-assess this issue of what is the most convenient way of running NORTH tools in development mode: maybe building an image locally is the correct approach.

[ka-sarthak]

@lauri-codes The refactoring plan sounds great. Thanks for the update!