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Introduction to CI/CD for AI Workflows

  • Unique challenges associated with AI model delivery pipelines.
  • Comparing traditional DevOps and MLOps processes.
  • Core components of automated model deployment.

Containerising AI Models with Docker

  • Designing efficient Dockerfiles for machine learning (ML) inference.
  • Managing dependencies and model artifacts.
  • Building secure and optimised images.

Setting Up CI/CD Pipelines

  • Exploring CI/CD tooling options and their respective ecosystems.
  • Constructing pipelines for automated model packaging.
  • Validating pipelines through automated checks.

Testing AI Models in CI

  • Automating data integrity checks.
  • Conducting unit and integration tests for model services.
  • Performing performance and regression validation.

Automated Deployment of Docker-Based AI Services

  • Deploying AI containers to cloud environments.
  • Implementing blue-green and canary rollout strategies.
  • Establishing rollback procedures for failed deployments.

Managing Model Versions and Artifacts

  • Leveraging registries for model and container version control.
  • Tagging, signing, and promoting images.
  • Coordinating model updates across various services.

Monitoring and Observability in CI/CD for AI

  • Tracking pipeline execution and model performance metrics.
  • Setting up alerts for failed builds or model drift.
  • Tracing inference behaviour across different environments.

Scaling CI/CD Pipelines for AI Systems

  • Parallelising builds for large models.
  • Optimising compute and storage resources.
  • Integrating distributed and remote runners.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • A sound understanding of machine learning model lifecycles.
  • Practical experience with Docker containerisation.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and pipelines.

Audience

  • DevOps engineers.
  • MLOps teams.
  • AI-ops engineers.
 21 Hours

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