That's a great idea with Docker @szymon_dybczak although, I suppose from a uni student's perspective, if they have to configure anything, that could end in a disaster 😆. I did a maths degree at uni and thought the command prompt was part of the matrix 🤣. Could just be me projecting haha.

@wcohen whenever I've used Labs, provided by Databricks, they've been hosted through Vocareum. I wonder if that's a potential route for you but I imagine there's some cost involved. I mention this as it'd require less governance than an actual databricks environment (I'm sure your IT department would appreciate that) and I'd have thoughts there's caps/restrictions in place to reduce costs (or potentially fixed prices).

@wcohen  please keep us in the loop, I'm interested to hear about the resolution. I guess the RDD restriction is based on Serverless compute, if the free edition makes classic compute available at some stage, that could solve your problem. I'm not sure if that's on the roadmap for the free edition, though.

All the best,
BS