Securing the Jupyter Notebook server on a DLAMI instance - Amazon Deep Learning AMIs
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Securing the Jupyter Notebook server on a DLAMI instance

To keep your Jupyter Notebook server secure, we recommend setting up a password and creating an SSL certificate for the server. To configure a password and SSL, first connect to your DLAMI instance, and then follow these instructions.

To secure the Jupyter Notebook server

  1. Jupyter provides a password utility. Run the following command and enter your preferred password at the prompt.

    $ jupyter notebook password

    The output will look something like this:

    Enter password:
					Verify password:
					[NotebookPasswordApp] Wrote hashed password to /home/ubuntu/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.json

  2. Create a self-signed SSL certificate. Follow the prompts to fill out your locality as you see fit. You must enter . if you wish to leave a prompt blank. Your answers will not impact the functionality of the certificate.

    $ cd ~
					$ mkdir ssl
					$ cd ssl
					$ openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout mykey.key -out mycert.pem
Note

You might be interested in creating a regular SSL certificate that is third-party signed and does not cause the browser to give you a security warning. This process is much more involved. For more information, see Securing a notebook server in the Jupyter Notebook user documentation.

Next step

Starting the Jupyter Notebook server on a DLAMI instance