How to install Bumblebee on Digital Ocean

These are the minimal steps to run Bumblebee on your server or laptop. If you want more indeed information about how Bumblebee can help you to clean and prepare big data please go to hi-bumblebee.com

Create a New Ubuntu Server on Digitalocean

We recommend a create a droplet with at least 8GB of RAM and 2 vCPUs.

We need to run 3 processes at the same time. The Jupyter Kernel Gateway, the Bumblebee API, and the Bumblebee Front-End. For this, we are going to use byobu a multi-window terminal manager. After connecting via ssh in your terminal and run

byobu

Then install Anaconda

curl -O https://repo.anaconda.com/archive/Anaconda3-2019.10-Linux-x86_64.sh
bash Anaconda3-2019.10-Linux-x86_64.sh

Download the package lists from the repositories

sudo apt-get update

Install Node.Js 12.x

cd ~
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x -o nodesource_setup.sh
sudo bash nodesource_setup.sh
sudo apt install nodejs

Install yarn and some packages

npm install yarn -g

yarn global add pm2
yarn global add concurrently
yarn global add cross-env

Install and configure MongoDB

Clone the Bumblebee repo using

git clone https://github.com/hi-primus/bumblebee.git
cd Bumblebee

Install Python requirements

Create and use a Conda environment with Python 3.8

conda create -n optimus python=3.8
conda activate optimus

Install Optimus using this script

bash bbi.sh install optimus

Install the Jupyter Kernel Gateway

conda install -c conda-forge jupyter_kernel_gateway

Install, configure and run the Bumblebee front-end

Jump to another terminal press F2 to create a new terminal in Byobu

bash bbi.sh start environment

You’ll be asked to input your public address, it must be your external server ip address.

You are ready to test Bumblebee

Once running you’ll be able to open Bumblebee in your browser going to http://<IP>:3000 (<IP> is your external IP address).

After that click in Sign up to Bumblebeeand create a user with the credentials you prefer.

Now you are ready to use Bumblebee 🚕. Check the video below to see some of the main features.

Wrap up

Hope you can really enjoy Bumblebee if you need any help please go to the forums.

Also, remember that Bumblebee is open source. If you want to contribute take a look at the GitHub repo https://github.com/hi-primus/bumblebee.