Binder, BinderHub, and mybinder.org, which launch shareable computing environments from a code repository.
The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) is the birthplace of the current iteration of mybinder.org, all the way back in 2017. In 2026, they are back as a member of the federation, joining 2i2c and GESIS in contributing to the cloud costs of keeping mybinder.org running!
In February, the mybinder.org service will start tracking the “origin” of requests that launch a Binder session. The website that created a request to mybinder.org will be visible in the Binder analytics archive.
The Binder Project allows users to build reproducible, sharable environments for interactive computing. To accomplish this, Binder uses a tool called repo2docker to generate an executable Docker image using the Reproducible Execution Environment Specification.
Curvenote is now a part of the mybinder.org federation. By hosting a BinderHub instance running on the company’s infrastructure, additional capacity is available on the https://mybinder.org service.
Funding is running out for the largest member of mybinder.org, which has been sponsored by the Google Open Source Program Office. gke.mybinder.org will shut down and there will be a reduction in capacity at the end of April, 2023 (end of this week).
This week, we are deploying some updates to repo2docker, the image-building tool that underpins mybinder.org. This may affect your repos. Please get in touch if you have problems!
OVHcloud is a long-time supporter of the Jupyter project. In the past few years, they have provided computing resources to several Jupyter-related endeavors to support its sustainability.
I recently did some work on the mybinder.org deployment infrastructure to solve a problem with testing Pull Requests before deployment. It had not been possible to test Pull Requests on our staging deployment because our automated workflows don’t have access to secrets.
The JupyterHub and Binder Contributor in Residence. The first keepalive message.
2019 was a busy year for the Binder and JupyterHub projects — each saw growth in both their community and technology. Now that the year has wrapped up, it is a good time to reflect on some of the highlights from the year.
Thanks to funding from the CZI Essential Open Source Software for Science initiative we are welcoming Georgiana Elena as our first Contributor in Residence!
“Hi everyone, I’m Sarah! I’m a Research Data Scientist at the Alan Turing Institute and I’m also an operator of mybinder.org. It’s really cool seeing how many people here are interested in BinderHub!”
BinderHub and repo2docker are key components of the service at mybinder.org. In order to give Binder users the best experience, the Binder SRE team must continuously upgrade the version of these tools that mybinder.org uses.
We are happy to announce that mybinder.org is now backed by two clusters hosted by two different cloud providers: Google Cloud and OVH.
Interactive and reproducible repositories powered by Zenodo and Binder.
Today we are proud to announce that we now consider BinderHub a stable tool with a track record of operating in production.
The Binder Project’s repo2docker tool gives data scientists the benefits of containerization technology without needing to learn Docker itself. To make your repository compatible with repo2docker, you only need to add text files that are already present in many repositories.
This article reports on a project, integrating Stencila and Binder, which started at the eLife Innovation Sprint 2018 (#eLifeSprint). A longer version has been cross-posted on multiple blogs (eLife Labs, Stencila, o2r).
Since the beginning of 2018, the Binder community has been hosting a BinderHub at mybinder.org as a free public service. Today, we are proud to announce that this hub has served over two million Binders.
With this post we are proud to announce the next version of Binder. It aims to be more modular, more flexible, more stable, faster, and more extensible than its predecessor.
