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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)
5
Part 2: The Building Blocks of an MLOps Platform and How to Build One on Kubernetes
10
Part 3: How to Use the MLOps Platform and Build a Full End-to-End Project Using the New Platform

Chapter 9: Building Your Data Pipeline

In the previous chapter, you understood the example business goal of improving user experience by recommending flights that have a higher on-time probability. You have worked with the business subject matter expert (SME) to understand the available data. In this chapter, you will see how the platform assists you in harvesting and processing data from a variety of sources. You will see how on-demand Spark clusters can be created and how workloads could be isolated in a shared environment using the platform. New flights data may be available on a frequent basis and you will see how the platform enables you to automate the execution of your data pipeline.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:

  • Automated provisioning of a Spark cluster for development
  • Writing a Spark data pipeline
  • Using the Spark UI to monitor your jobs
  • Building and executing a data pipeline using Airflow