How do i enable root user and/or a user account with sudo privileges in the notebook servers instances?

[verhulstm]

We need to be able to ""sudo apt install [stuff] into the notebook server instance vm and/or container - how do we do this?

[marcelovilla]

The notebook server containers do not have sudo access. This answer in a previous discussion explains the reasoning behind it and outlines how you can add system packages to those containers.

Besides specifying custom docker images using the default_images.jupyterlab key, in the next version of Nebari (which we'll release in the following days), you'll be able to specify multiple docker images for your jupyterlab profiles and have a dropdown menu to select them. Check https://www.nebari.dev/docs/explanations/profile-configuration/#jupyterlab-profiles. If you want to try that now before the new release is out, you can always install Nebari from source as those changes were already merged.

Let me know if this helps!