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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 ML engineering

ML engineering is the process of applying software engineering principles and practices to ML projects. In the context of this book, ML engineering is also a discipline that facilitates applying application development practices to the data science lifecycle. When you write a traditional application such as a website or a banking system, there are processes and tools to assist you in writing high-quality code right from the start. Smart IDEs, standard environments, continuous integration, automated testing, and static code analysis are just a few examples. Automation and continuous deployment practices enable organizations to deploy applications many times in a day and with no downtime.

ML engineering is a loose term that brings the benefits of traditional software engineering practices to the model development world. However, most data scientists are not developers. They may not be familiar with software engineering practices. Also, the tools that...