Creating a workbench and selecting a notebook image

A workbench is an instance of your development and experimentation environment. Within a workbench you can select a notebook image for your data science work.

Prerequisites
Procedure
  1. Navigate to the project detail page for the data science project that you created in Setting up your data science project.

  2. Click the Workbenches tab, and then click the Create workbench button.

    Create workbench button
  3. Fill out the name and description.

    Workbench name and description

    Red Hat provides several supported notebook images. In the Notebook image section, you can choose one of these images or any custom images that an administrator has set up for you. The Tensorflow image has the libraries needed for this workshop.

  4. Select the latest Tensorflow image.

    Workbench image
  5. Choose a small deployment.

    Workbench size
  6. Leave the Accelerator field with the default None selection.

    Workbench accelerator
  7. Leave the default environment variables and storage options.

    Workbench storage
  8. Under Connections, select Use a connection.

    Use connection
  9. Select Use existing connection, and then select My Storage (the object storage that you configured previously) from the list.

    Connection form
  10. Click the Create workbench button.

    Create workbench button
Verification

In the Workbenches tab for the project, the status of the workbench changes from Starting to Running.

Workbench list
If you made a mistake, you can edit the workbench to make changes.
Workbench list edit