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Machine Learning on Kubernetes

By : Faisal Masood, Ross Brigoli
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Machine Learning on Kubernetes

By: Faisal Masood, Ross Brigoli

Overview of this book

MLOps is an emerging field that aims to bring repeatability, automation, and standardization of the software engineering domain to data science and machine learning engineering. By implementing MLOps with Kubernetes, data scientists, IT professionals, and data engineers can collaborate and build machine learning solutions that deliver business value for their organization. You'll begin by understanding the different components of a machine learning project. Then, you'll design and build a practical end-to-end machine learning project using open source software. As you progress, you'll understand the basics of MLOps and the value it can bring to machine learning projects. You will also gain experience in building, configuring, and using an open source, containerized machine learning platform. In later chapters, you will prepare data, build and deploy machine learning models, and automate workflow tasks using the same platform. Finally, the exercises in this book will help you get hands-on experience in Kubernetes and open source tools, such as JupyterHub, MLflow, and Airflow. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to effectively build, train, and deploy a machine learning model using the machine learning platform you built.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Challenges of Adopting ML and Understanding MLOps (What and Why)
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Part 2: The Building Blocks of an MLOps Platform and How to Build One on Kubernetes
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Part 3: How to Use the MLOps Platform and Build a Full End-to-End Project Using the New Platform

Understanding the business problem

As with any software project, the first thing is to agree on the business problem you are trying to solve. We have chosen a fictitious scenario for this book to keep it simple while focusing on the process. You can apply the same approach to more complex projects.

Let's assume that you work for an airline booking company as a lead data analyst. The business team of your company has reported that lots of customers complain about flights being delayed. It is causing the company to have bad customer experiences, and the phone staff spend lots of time explaining the details to customers. The business is looking at you to provide a solution to identify which airlines and which flights and times have a lower probability of delays so that the website can prioritize those airlines and, therefore, customers end up with fewer delays.

Let's take a breather here and analyze how we can solve this problem. Do we need ML here? If we take the historical...