Simphony remote docker manager v. 0.5.0

What's new in SimPhoNy Remote 0.5.0

Summary

• Updated documentation (#147)
• Parameters for setting up docker client are now optional (#126)
• Formalise BadRequest error in the Rest API (#127)
• Add description to remoteappdb (#129)
• Supports parsing outputs from both docker inspect_container and
  containers (#133)
• Simplify the ReverseProxy (#114)
• Provide a set of dummy and virtual objects for better testing (#98)
• Bug fix: Subhandlers on the home page should raise instead of finish when
  error occurs (#123)
• Bug fix: Spawner's config_file_path should be configurable from jupyterhub
  config (#124)
• Bug fix: Deprecation warning from Traitlets (#135)
• Bug fix: Empty file created if target sqlite database does not exist (#139, 122)
• Bug fix: SSL failure for auto ssl version (#144)

Simphony remote docker manager v. 0.4.0

What's new in SimPhoNy Remote 0.4.0

Summary

• Experimental REST API and CLI program to control containers from the
  command line (#7)
• Support for arbitrary database implementations (#66)
• Added remoteappdb --verify option to check against the docker repo for
  matching images (#58)
• Enabled Foreign Key and on cascade delete for sqlite database (#56)
• Introduced makefile for basic deployment tasks (#68)
• User.orm_user is now User.account (#67)
• Asynchronous user verification with the jupyter hub is now in place (#37)
• Consistently differentiate between url and urlpath in parameters, where
  possible (#54)
• Container.host_url now checks for None port (#63)
• Isolated sqlalchemy sessions for the base handler (#71)
• verify_token now returns a dictionary with user details. (#77)
• Bug: ui_names no longer appearing (#64)
• Bug: test error for sqlalchemy usage with multiple threads. (#99)
• Bug: fixed test error message relative to unclosed files. (#60)

Simphony remote docker manager v. 0.3.0

What's new in SimPhoNy Remote 0.3.0

Summary

• Introduced a more generic configuration of available users and images
  through a CSV file (#33, #41)
• Internally refactored configuration handling (#40)
• Simplified database layout by removing Teams (#32)
• Added functionality to remove users and applications from database via
  remoteappdb CLI application (#28)
• Attaching of workspace (#4)
• Added API autodoc documentation (#57)
• Improved testing and coverage (#5)
• Improved error message when unable to create temporary directory (#53)
• Fixed regression with View button not working anymore (#43)

Simphony remote docker manager v. 0.2.0

What's new in SimPhoNy Remote 0.2.0

Summary

• Introduced access control for images and users by means of a database. Additionally, a CLI utility to modify the content of the database has been provided (#8)
• Added readthedocs documentation (#12)
• Container URL now contains a base32 encoded unique identifier, instead of the docker container id. (#18)
• Introduced authentication of the user for the application (#24)
• Improved handling of failures in starting containers (#6, #14, #15)

Initial release

Features

A jupyterhub application handling multiple docker containers per user (PAM authentication)
A specialized spawner to handle the correct initialization of the user app
Support attaching home volumes to containers
Support attaching common volumes to containers