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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

Identifying ML platform use cases

As discussed in the earlier chapters, it is imperative to understand what ML is and how it differs from other closely related disciplines, such as data analytics and data science. Data science may be required as a precursor to ML. It is instrumental in the research and exploration phase where you are unsure whether an ML algorithm can solve the problem. In the previous chapters, you have employed data science practices such as problem definitions, isolation of business metrics, and algorithm comparison. While data science is essential, there are also ML use cases that do not require as many data science activities. An example of such cases is the use of AutoML frameworks, which we will talk about in the next section.

Identifying whether ML can best solve the problem and selecting the ML platform is a bit of a chicken and egg problem. This is because, in order to be sure that an ML algorithm can best solve a certain business problem, it requires...