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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 and using JupyterHub

Jupyter Notebook has become an extremely popular tool for writing code for ML projects. JupyterHub is a software that facilitates the self-service provisioning of computing environments that includes spinning up pre-configured Jupyter Notebook servers and provisioning the associated compute resources on the Kubernetes platform. On-demand end users such as data engineers and data scientists can provision their own instances of Jupyter Notebook dedicated only to them. If a requesting user already has his/her own running instance of Jupyter Notebook, the hub will just direct the user to the existing instance, avoiding duplicated environments. From the end user's perspective, the whole interaction is seamless. You will see this in the next section of this chapter.

When a user requests an environment in JupyterHub, they are also given the option to choose a pre-configured sizing of hardware resources such as CPU, memory, and storage. This allows...