What we're solving
Terra notebook users who want to customize their own compute environments have given feedback that 1) the offered base images are too large, making them time-consuming to install and manage, 2) sudo permissions are needed to install certain tools, and 3) reusability of compute environments is impacted when Terra makes updates to the offered base images.
Coming in 2025, users will have the option to leverage a slim base image with only the minimum necessary packages installed that they can customize with elevated permissions.
Benefits to the user experience
Users can launch the slim base image quickly, and from there, install tools however they prefer, including running their reusable image inside the environment.
Try it out
This feature is coming to preview.