Site Reliability Guide for mybinder.org#

This site is a collection of wisdom, tools, and other helpful information to assist in the maintenance and team-processes around the BinderHub deployment at https://mybinder.org.

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If you are looking for documentation on how to use https://mybinder.org, see the mybinder.org user documentation.

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If you are looking for information on deploying your own BinderHub, see the BinderHub documentation.

What is mybinder.org?#

https://mybinder.org is a federation, named the mybinder.org federation, of public deployments of BinderHub. https://mybinder.org acts as a proxy to computational resources donated by federation members.

What is the mybinder.org operations team?#

Behind the https://mybinder.org is a team of contributors that donate their time to keeping https://mybinder.org running smoothly. This role is often called a Site Reliability Engineer (or SRE). We informally call this team the “mybinder.org operators”.

If you are interested in helping the mybinder.org operations team, first check out “The Operators (no Binder isn’t forming a rock band)” on Jupyter instance of Discourse. To show your interest in helping, please reach out to the operations team via “Interested in joining the mybinder.org operations team?” thread on Jupyter instance of Discourse.