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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

Provisioning a VM on GCP

It is always preferable to have a local environment that you can use to work on the exercises in this book. However, we understand that not everyone has the required compute resources available in their local machines. So, let's go to the cloud! You can provision just the right machine that you need for the exercises, in the cloud, and for free. For instance, Google Cloud gives United States dollars (USD) $300 worth of credit to new accounts. Other cloud providers such as AWS and Azure also give a similar free tier account, and it is up to you to select the cloud provider of your choice. For provisioning the VM we need for this book, however, we will use Google Cloud.

Once you have the account details sorted, use the following steps to provision a VM in your account. Just do not forget to stop the VM instance after you have completed a session to avoid getting billed for the hours that you are not using your machine.

The following instruction will...