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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

Becoming cloud-agnostic through Kubernetes

One of the key aspects of the ML platform we are building is that it enables the organization to run on any cloud or data center. However, each cloud has its own proprietary APIs to manage resources and deploy applications. For example, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) API uses an Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance (a server) when provisioning a server, while Google Cloud's API uses a Google Compute Engine (GCE) VM (a server). Even the names of the resources are different! This is where Kubernetes plays a key role.

The wide adoption of Kubernetes has forced major cloud vendors to come up with tight integration solutions with Kubernetes. This allows anyone to spin up a Kubernetes cluster in AWS, GCP, or Azure in a matter of minutes.

The Kubernetes API enables you to manage cloud resources. Using the standard Kubernetes API, you can deploy applications on any major cloud provider without needing to learn about the cloud provider&apos...