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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)
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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

Automated provisioning of a Spark cluster for development

In this section, you will learn how the platform enables your team to provision an Apache Spark cluster on-demand. This capability of provisioning new Apache Spark clusters on-demand enables your organization to run multiple isolated projects used by multiple teams on a shared Kubernetes cluster without overlapping.

The heart of this component is the Spark operator that is available within the platform. The Spark Kubernetes Operator allows you to start the Spark cluster declaratively. You can find the necessary configuration files in the book's Git repository under the manifests/radanalyticsio folder. The details of this operator are out of scope for this book, but we will show you how the mechanism works.

The Spark operator defines a Kubernetes custom resource definition (CRD), which provides the schema of the requests that you can make to the Spark operator. In this schema, you can define many things, such as the...