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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

Setting up your local Kubernetes environment

Now that we have refreshed some basic Kubernetes concepts, it's time for the rubber to hit the road. In this section, we will prepare and validate our local Kubernetes clusters. The cluster we set up here will be used to host the ML platform in later chapters.

Installing kubectl

kubectl is a command-line tool that assists in running commands against a Kubernetes cluster. You can create Kubernetes objects, view logs, and monitor the progress of your actions through this utility. The following steps will install kubectl on your machine.

Installing kubectl on Linux

First, let's see the process for installing kubectl on a machine running Linux. Follow these next steps:

  1. Create or Secure Shell (SSH) to a Terminal session on your Linux computer.
  2. Download the kubectl. Kubernetes command-line interface (CLI). We will be using version 1.22.4 throughout the book. The following two lines of code are one command:
    curl...