[Update 1/19/21: Added section “Automating Notebook Checkout at Instance Startup”]
[Note: I work at Google Cloud.]

Overview

As part of an effort at “New Years Cleaning”, I decided I should organize my Jupyter notebooks in git. If you’re like me, you have multiple Jupyter notebooks running on multiple different managed Jupyterlab servers under Google Cloud’s AI Platform Notebooks. While it’s really easy to turn off a server until it’s needed again, I find reasons to spin up new instances, which leads to random notebooks scattered around. …