ShinyProxy on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Overview

ShinyProxy is an open source deployment server for data science web applications. Instead of leaving an analytics app running on a shared port for anyone to reach, it puts a sign in page in front of your applications and starts a dedicated container for each user who opens one, then reverse proxies that container back through a single URL. When the user stops the app, or the session goes idle, the container is destroyed and its memory is returned to the machine.

Applications are declared in one configuration file: an identifier, a display name, the container image to run and the port it listens on. Because the unit of deployment is a container image, the same server publishes R Shiny apps, Python Dash and Streamlit apps, Jupyter notebooks and anything else that serves HTTP, side by side and each with its own dependencies. Per app access groups decide who sees what, an administration view shows which sessions are running, and per container memory and CPU limits stop one user's analysis from taking the machine down. It suits analytics, research and data teams that need to publish interactive work to colleagues or clients with real authentication and real isolation, rather than a link to an unprotected port.

Common uses

• Publish interactive analytics apps to a team behind one authenticated URL
• Give every user a private, isolated container session with its own memory limit
• Host R, Python and notebook applications side by side from container images

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.