# jupyterhub/the-littlest-jupyterhub

Simple JupyterHub distribution for 1-100 users on a single server

Repository: https://github.com/jupyterhub/the-littlest-jupyterhub
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/the-littlest-jupyterhub
Homepage: https://tljh.jupyter.org
Language: Python
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: jupyterhub, education
Last push: 2026-08-24T21:20:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3001, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1147, forks 373 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:45.973715+00:00)

## What it is
The Littlest JupyterHub (TLJH) is a simple JupyterHub distribution that provides hosted Jupyter Notebooks for 1-100 users on a single server. It is designed for non-system-administrators, such as teachers, who want to give students a shared Jupyter environment with easy library installation.

## Use cases
- host jupyter notebooks for a class of students on one server
- set up a multi-user jupyterhub without sysadmin experience
- deploy a shared jupyter environment on a cloud vm
- let students access notebooks in a browser
- install python libraries for all users on a shared jupyter server
- run a small team's shared jupyter notebook server

## When to choose
- you need Jupyter for 1-100 users on a single server
- you are not a system administrator and want a simple setup
- you want all users to share one environment with easy package installation
- you are teaching a class and need hosted notebooks

## When to avoid
- you need to serve hundreds or thousands of users across many machines (use Zero to JupyterHub/Kubernetes)
- you are not on Debian or Ubuntu LTS on amd64/arm64
- you need per-user isolated environments or heavy customization

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: self-hosted, deployment, http-server, developer-tools
- domain: education, data-science, self-hosted, cloud-computing
- platform: python, self-hosted, cloud
- tags: jupyterhub, jupyter-notebooks, multi-user, teaching, single-server, linux

## Member repositories
- jupyterhub/the-littlest-jupyterhub (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:45.973715+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:34:02.938361+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jupyterhub/the-littlest-jupyterhub (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:45.973715+00:00, sha e3006641df1f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.