Resilient MLOps in Cloud Data Platforms
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22172832Keywords:
MLOps, Cloud-Native Machine Learning, Continuous Integration for ML, Continuous Delivery of Models, ML Reliability Engineering, Model Deployment Pipelines, Data Lineage and Reproducibility, ML Governance and Security, Service-Level Objectives (SLOs), Monitoring and Incident Response Automation, CI/CD for Machine Learning, Model Rollout Strategies, Containerization for ML (Docker), Orchestration for ML Workloads (Kubernetes), Model Serving Frameworks, High-Throughput Low-Latency Inference, Auto-Scaling ML Services, Model Versioning, Cloud Data Platform Architecture, Production ML Observability.Abstract
Machine learning operations (MLOps) comprises the practices, methods, and tooling that facilitate the deployment of reliable ML models in production environments. While many aspects of cloud data platforms are designed to enable reliability, only some managed ML services support the MLOps goals of continuous integration, continuous delivery, data lineage tracking, associated reproducibility, governance, and security. Furthermore, reliability encompasses not only the fulfillment of service-level objectives, but also systematic monitoring, alerting, and incident response automation. Architectural patterns are proposed to enable reliable deployment in cloud data platforms, focusing on the implementation of continuous integration and testing pipelines for ML models and the formulation of continuous delivery and rollout strategies. Continuous integration pipelines reduce the risk of regressions and ensure sufficient model performance at the time of deployment, while continuous delivery pipelines enable rapid updates to production models within acceptable risk profiles.
The landscape of publicly available MLOps frameworks, tools, and services is also examined, emphasizing the pros and cons of established and rising solutions in containerization, orchestration, model serving, and inference. Containerization and orchestration contributes to the building of reliable deployment pipelines in cloud data platforms, whether general-purpose tools (e.g. Docker and Kubernetes) or solutions tailored for ML workloads. Containerized serving frameworks designed for high-throughput, low-latency inference can benefit a wide range of business applications, while auto-scaling and model versioning capabilities enhance the ease of use of cloud-native ML services.
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