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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

Introducing MLflow

Simply put, MLflow is there to simplify the model development lifecycle. A lot of the data scientist's time is spent finding the right algorithms with the right hyperparameters for the given dataset. As a data scientist, you experiment with different combinations of parameters and algorithms, then review and compare the results to make the right choice. MLflow allows you to record, track, and compare these parameters, their results, and associated metrics. The component of MLflow that captures the details of each of your experiments is called the tracking server. The tracking server captures the environment details of your notebook, such as the Python libraries and their versions, and the artifacts generated by your experiment.

The tracking server allows you to compare the data captured between different runs of an experiment, such as the performance metrics (for example, accuracy) alongside the hyperparameters used. You can also share this data with your...