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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

Building and executing a data pipeline using Airflow

In the preceding section, you have built your data pipeline to ingest and process data. Imagine that new flights data is available once a week and you need to process the new data repeatedly. One way is to run the data pipeline manually; however, this approach may not scale as the number of data pipelines grows. Data engineers' time would be used more efficiently in writing new pipelines instead of repeatedly running the old ones. The second concern is security. You may have written the data pipeline on sample data and your team may not have access to production data to execute the data pipeline.

Automation provides the solution to both problems. You can schedule your data pipelines to run as required while the data engineer works on more interesting work. Your automated pipeline can connect to production data without any involvement from the development team, which will result in better security.

The ML platform contains...