ANN: CoCalc-Cloud on Kubernetes (e.g., cocalc.com) -- have you ever wondered how it works and what it is?

[williamstein]

@haraldschilly spent the week writing about CoCalc Cloud, which is a scalable implementation of CoCalc that runs on a Kubernetes Cluster. CoCalc-Cloud supports collaboratively running Jupyter Notebooks, editing capabilities for code and text files, LaTeX document compilation, a Linux terminal, code compilation, a virtual X11 desktop, support for single sign-on authentication, and integration with GitHub, Sendgrid, and OpenAI. It allows for the installation of additional software and can be run on a variety of hosted Kubernetes clusters, including Amazon’s EKS and Google’s GKE. This new manual provides guidance on setup, architecture, deployment, and operations, as well as specific notes for running on different cloud providers.

Unlike Cocalc and CoCalc-Docker, the Cocalc-Cloud implementation is not freely available. Cocalc cloud is aimed at serious scalable supported deployments at companies and universities with their own significant investment in computing infrastructure and privacy requirements that need to support thousands of users. It has been exciting for us to develop and combines much that we've learned running CoCalc.com on Kubernetes for the last 7 years.