Project Overview
In this project, you will apply the skills you have acquired in this course to operationalize a Machine Learning Microservice API.
You are given a pre-trained, sklearn
model that has been trained to predict housing prices in Boston according to several features, such as average rooms in a home and data about highway access, teacher-to-pupil ratios, and so on. You can read more about the data, which was initially taken from Kaggle, on the data source site. This project tests your ability to operationalize a Python flask app—in a provided file, app.py
—that serves out predictions (inference) about housing prices through API calls. This project could be extended to any pre-trained machine learning model, such as those for image recognition and data labeling.
Project Tasks
Your project goal is to operationalize this working, machine learning microservice using kubernetes, which is an open-source system for automating the management of containerized applications. In this project you will:
- Test your project code using linting
- Complete a Dockerfile to containerize this application
- Deploy your containerized application using Docker and make a prediction
- Improve the log statements in the source code for this application
- Configure Kubernetes and create a Kubernetes cluster
- Deploy a container using Kubernetes and make a prediction
- Upload a complete Github repo with CircleCI to indicate that your code has been tested
You can find a detailed project rubric, here.
The final implementation of the project will showcase your abilities to operationalize production microservices.
Setup the Environment
- Create a virtualenv and activate it
python3 -m venv ~/.devops
source ~/.devops/bin/activate
- Run
make install
to install the necessary dependencies
app.py
via Docker and Kubernetes
Running Make sure to create a repository at Docker hub as the dockerpath.
- Standalone:
python app.py
- Run in Docker:
./run_docker.sh
- Run in Kubernetes:
./run_kubernetes.sh
- Upload the docker image to your Docker hub:
./upload_docker.sh
- Delete Kubernetes Pods
kubectl delete pods <PodName>
CircleCI
Make sure to sign up on circleci.com with your github account.
- Add a folder
.circleci
and create aconfig.yml
file from template YAML (provided in proejct) - In the config.yml, add one step to download hadolint binary to and assign it executable permission
wget -O /bin/hadolint https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint/releases/download/v1.16.3/hadolint-Linux-x86_64 &&\
chmod +x /bin/hadolint
Trouble Shooting
pip install <package>
use pip install <package>==<version>
Dockerfile:11 DL3013 Pin versions in pip. Instead of In Dockerfile, specify the pip version:
RUN pip install --upgrade pip==20.2.3
recipe for target 'lint' failed
#!/bin/bash -eo pipefail
. venv/bin/activate
make lint
# See local hadolint install instructions: https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint
# This is linter for Dockerfiles
hadolint Dockerfile
# This is a linter for Python source code linter: https://www.pylint.org/
# This should be run from inside a virtualenv
pylint --disable=R,C,W1203 app.py
make: pylint: Command not found
Makefile:24: recipe for target 'lint' failed
make: *** [lint] Error 127
- Add
pylint==2.5.3
to requirements.txt - Also need to fix the syntax error detected by pylint in app.py as below
(.devops) ✔ ~/Dropbox/Udacity/DevOps/microservice_ci [master|✚ 1…1]
02:04 $ make lint
# See local hadolint install instructions: https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint
# This is linter for Dockerfiles
hadolint Dockerfile
# This is a linter for Python source code linter: https://www.pylint.org/
# This should be run from inside a virtualenv
pylint --disable=R,C,W1203 app.py
************* Module app
app.py:23:11: W1309: Using an f-string that does not have any interpolated variables (f-string-without-interpolation)
------------------------------------------------------------------
Your code has been rated at 9.66/10 (previous run: 8.28/10, +1.38)
make: *** [lint] Error 4
(.devops) ✘-2 ~/Dropbox/Udacity/DevOps/microservice_ci [master|✚ 1…1]
02:04 $ make lint
# See local hadolint install instructions: https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint
# This is linter for Dockerfiles
hadolint Dockerfile
# This is a linter for Python source code linter: https://www.pylint.org/
# This should be run from inside a virtualenv
pylint --disable=R,C,W1203 app.py
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Your code has been rated at 10.00/10 (previous run: 8.28/10, +1.72)
(.devops) ✔ ~/Dropbox/Udacity/DevOps/microservice_ci [master|✚ 2…1]