spyder-remote

spyder-remote is a project to add the ability to spyder to recognize (over zeroconf) what machines are in the local network that can start a spyder-kernel to which spyder can then automatically and remotely connect.

Bundeled with this capability there is also the capability to manage conda environment on the remote host.

Eventhough spyder-remote is one project, it consists out of 2 parts (the spyder-remote-server and the spyder-remote-client) and thus also 2 packages that are released together under the same version number.

spyder-remote-client

Installation

The spyder-remote-client is simply installed over conda like so:

(base) me@mybox:~$ conda activate spyder
(spyder) me@mybox:~$ conda install spyder-remote-client

Note that spyder-remote-client depends on spyder (>=5), it will pull in also spyder if not available!

Description

This is a plugin to spyder (>=5), and it adds 2 entries in the IPython Console hamburger:

• spyder-remote console

  Selecting this option will present us with a dialog like this:

  

  In a first stage Credentials and Conda disabled, and only the Remote Spyder Host QComboBox is active, and filled with all 'machines' discovered on the zeroconf network. (Note: we display the pretty names that come from the zeroconf network, it is supposed to be 'talking' names ... in UTF-8 !) Once a host is selected, the Credentials section will enable, proposing the local user name (in our usecase this is :thumbsup:), and by default the password comes from the keyring - placeholer text -) Once that is cleared (by default nothing needs to be done), one can select which conda environment for the user on the remote host will be used. This is a QComboBox because we know this info (from the remote host). The Requirements is the finishing touch, if your project (local) has a requirements directory in the project root, one can chose whech one (or none) of these to apply to the remote conda environment! :heart_eyes: The feedback line guides the user, but there is only very few use-cases for this one (for exemple when the user & password don't allow access to the remote host) Note that the remote host can have a guest account set up, in such case we need to be able to tell the user this ... maybe over the feedback line ?!?)

• spyder-remote management

  Here the idea is that one can quickly create/configure a remote environment. Basically I am hoping to add this functionality to the above described Dialog (that is what the two ... QToolButton's are doing there. In such a case we can get ride of this spyder-remote management entry as the funtionality is already in the spyder-remote console entry point. Note that if we do things over requirements we don't need an elaborate system for this (read: a library with all individual conda commands :stuck_out_tongue:)

This package is to be implemented in pure Python(iow: noarch), so bringing it to Windows, macOS and Linux will be straight forward.

spyder-remote-server

Installation

The spyder-remote-server is installed with conda like so:

(base) me@mybox:~$ conda install spyder-remote-server
(base) me@mybox:~$ sudo spyder-remote-server --install

Note that spyder-remote-server is to be installed in base (anything else should fail)

So the spyder-remote-server conda-package installs the spyder-remote-server (Python) script. This script has the following arguments:

• --install ➜ installs the daemon
• --uninstall ➜ uninstalls the daemon
• --guest [guest_account] ➜ only to be used with --install, and it will also add a guest account to the system (with the same password as the account) and add this info also to the /etc/spyder-remote.conf file.
• --cores [#] ➜ only to be used with install, and it will set the maximum numbers of consoles this machine will provide. (see section on spyder-remote.conf)

Description

To begin with we will only implement the spyder-remote-server for Linux. (In a later stage we can add macOS and Windows)

The spyder-remote-server script will install/uninstall the 'publisher' in the systemd of the Linux system. (/ect/spyder-remote.conf, systemctl), the install script thus need to check if the user is 'root' and if the conda