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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)
1
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

Using MLFlow as an experiment tracking system

In this section, you will see how the MLflow library allows you to record your experiments with the MLflow server. The custom notebook image, which you saw in the first part of this chapter, already has MLflow libraries packaged into the container. Please refer to the chapter6/requirements.txt file for the exact version of the MLflow library.

Before we start this activity, it is important to understand two main concepts: experiment and run.

An experiment is a logical name under which MLflow records and groups the metadata, for example, an experiment could be the name of your project. Let's say you are working on building a model for predicting credit card fraud for your retail customer. This could become the experiment name.

A run is a single execution of an experiment that is tracked in MLflow. A run belongs to an experiment. Each run may have a slightly different configuration, different hyperparameters, and sometimes, different...