Creating Notebooks

Deploy a new JupyterLab notebook instance from the UI or via the Admin Chat assistant.

From the UI

1. Navigate to Jupyter Notebooks in the sidebar
2. Click New Notebook
3. Fill in the form:

Field	Required	Description
Name	Yes	Unique identifier (lowercase, alphanumeric, hyphens). Becomes the URL slug.
Owner	No	Assign an owner user for object-level access control
Resource Preset	No	Choose a preset or configure custom resources

4. Click Create

The notebook pod starts within a few seconds. Once status shows Running, click Open to access JupyterLab.

Resource Presets

Preset	CPU	Memory	GPU	Use Case
Standard	1 core	2Gi	—	General exploration, small datasets
Medium	2 cores	4Gi	—	Moderate data processing
Large	4 cores	8Gi	—	Large datasets, multi-model inference
Custom	configurable	configurable	optional	Specific requirements

For GPU workloads, select Custom and set the GPU count. GPU nodes must be available in your cluster — see GPU Configuration.

Pre-Installed Libraries

Each notebook instance includes:

• openai — for calling Menatic AI models via the OpenAI-compatible API
• requests — HTTP client
• ipywidgets — interactive widgets
• papermill — for running notebooks programmatically

An Example.ipynb is pre-seeded showing how to connect to the platform’s LLM API.

Pre-Configured Environment

The following environment variables are automatically injected:

Variable	Value
FTN_BASE_URL	In-cluster backend URL
FTN_API_KEY	Project-scoped API token
FTN_PROJECT_ID	Owning project UUID
JUPYTER_TOKEN	Auto-generated JupyterLab auth token

Notebook URL

Each notebook is accessible at:

https://<domain>/jupyter/<name>/

Auto-Login URL

The platform generates a token-secured auto-login URL for each notebook. This URL includes the Jupyter token and logs you in automatically. It is displayed in the notebook detail view.

From the Admin Chat

You can create notebooks via the Admin Chat assistant:

Create a new Jupyter notebook named "data-analysis" for user john@example.com

The assistant uses the create_jupyter_notebook tool to deploy the instance and returns the access URL.

Naming Conventions

Notebook names must:

• Be lowercase
• Contain only letters, numbers, and hyphens
• Start with a letter
• Be unique within the cluster