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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

Chapter 4: The Anatomy of a Machine Learning Platform

In this and the next few chapters, you will learn and install the components of a machine learning (ML) platform on top of Kubernetes. An ML platform should be capable of providing the tooling required to run the full life cycle of an ML project as described in Chapter 2, Understanding MLOps. This chapter starts with defining the different components of an ML platform in a technology-agnostic way. In the later parts, you will see the group of open source software that can satisfy the requirements of each component. We have chosen this approach to not tie you up with a specific technology stack; instead, you can replace components as you deem fit for your environment.

The solution that you will build in this book will be based on open source technologies and will be hosted on the Kubernetes platform that you built in Chapter 3, Exploring Kubernetes.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:

  • Defining...