I've now written a couple of Jupyter notebooks and one of the issues that has come up is how to share the notebooks in a way that ensures the results will be reproducible in an environment when updates to components occur regularly.

Binder is a collection of tools for building and executing version-controlled computational environments that contain code, data, and interactive front ends, like Jupyter notebooks. It's 100% open source.

At a high level, Binder is designed to make the following workflow as easy as possible

• Users specify a GitHub repository
• Repository contents are used to build Docker images
• Deploy containers on-demand in the browser on a cluster running Kubernetes

Common use cases include:

• sharing scientific work
• sharing journalism
• running tutorials and demos with minimal setup
• teaching courses

If you want to find out more have a look at this blog post by the developers.