Running basic Pachyderm operations in Pachyderm Notebooks

The main advantage of Pachyderm Notebooks is that it provides a unified experience. Not only can you run your experiments inside of it, but you can also access your Pachyderm cluster through the integrated terminal by using both pachctl and python-pachyderm. All the pipelines that you create through the JupyterLab UI will be reflected in your Pachyderm cluster whether it runs locally or on a cloud platform.

Now let's see how we can use Pachyderm Notebooks to access our Pachyderm cluster.

Using the integrated terminal

You can run the integrated terminal from within Pachyderm Notebooks and use it to execute pachctl or any other UNIX commands.

To use the integrated terminal, complete the following steps:

1. On the Pachyderm Notebooks home page, click Terminal.
2. Click the Terminal icon to start a new Terminal window:

Figure 11.5 – Start a Terminal within Pachyderm Notebooks...