How to run jupyter lab in a conda environment on a google compute engine (Deep Learning VM)?

Question

I made a conda environment in my Deep Learning VM. When I ssh to it (clicking SSH button of my instance in the VM instances page) and type source activate <environment_name> it gets activated correctly in the shell.
I successfully connect to jupyter lab from my local machine as explained from the docs

How can I use jupyter in a specific conda environment on this VM ?

The accepted way to run jupyter in a specific conda environment seems to be

Activate a conda environment in your terminal using source activate <environment_name> before you run jupyter notebook.

A Jupyter Lab session is started when your Deep Learning VM instance is initialized

so that I cannot source activate before the creation of the jupyter lab session.

Any ideas ?

run a standard jupyter notebook myself instead of using the jupyter lab provided by the VM ?
activate the environment in startup scripts of the VM before the creation of the jupyter lab ?

I have seen some threads([thread1](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53004311/how-to-add-conda-environment-to-jupyter-lab),[thread2](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39604271/conda-environments-not-showing-up-in-jupyter-notebook)), where similar concerns have been discussed. I hope that helps. — Digil, Dec 25 '18 at 20:34

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 27 '19 at 05:39

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Please try out the below steps:

After this, launch your python code from hub.colfaxresearch.com and select Kernel --> Change Kernel --> < env_name >

edited Feb 27 '19 at 05:39

Mat

answered Jan 09 '19 at 04:50

Rahila T - Intel

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 26 '20 at 15:06

The only way we've found to make it see all your environments(conda and new python environments) is to run a new jupyter lab instance.

When connecting over SSH map the 8888 or any other port instead of 8080 gcloud compute ssh ... -L 8888:localhost:8888
After connecting run jupyter lab from console. The default port is 8888.

This is one of the ugliest issues I've seen with GCE so far!

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