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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

Understanding Operators

In traditional information technology (IT) organizations, specialized and dedicated teams were required to maintain applications and other software components such as databases, caches, and messaging components. Those teams were continuously observing the software ecosystem and doing specific things such as taking backups for databases, upgrading and patching newer versions of software components, and more.

Operators are like system administrators or engineers, continuously monitoring applications running on the Kubernetes environment and performing operational tasks associated with the specific component. In other words, an Operator is an automated software manager that manages the installation and life cycle of applications on Kubernetes.

Put simply, instead of you creating and updating Kubernetes Objects (Deployment, Ingress, and so on), the Operator takes this responsibility based on the configuration you provide. The configuration that directs the...