Authors: Mathew Salvaris and Fidan Boylu Uz

Deploy Deep Learning CNN on Kubernetes Cluster with GPUs

Overview

In this repository there are a number of tutorials in Jupyter notebooks that have step-by-step instructions on how to deploy a pretrained deep learning model on a GPU enabled Kubernetes cluster. The tutorials cover how to deploy models from the following deep learning frameworks:

• TensorFlow
• Keras (TensorFlow backend)
• Pytorch (Coming soon)

For each framework, we go through the following steps:

• Model development where we load the pretrained model and test it by using it to score images
• Developing the interface our Flask app will use to load and call the model
• Building the Docker Image with our Flask REST API and model
• Testing our Docker image before deployment
• Creating our Kubernetes cluster and deploying our application to it
• Testing the deployed model
• Testing the throughput of our model
• Cleaning up resources

The application we will develop is a simple image classification service, where we will submit an image and get back what class the image belongs to.

If you already have a Docker image that you would like to deploy you can skip the first four notebooks.

NOTE: The tutorial goes through step by step how to deploy a deep learning model on Azure it does not include enterprise best practices such as securing the endpoints and setting up remote logging etc.

Prerequisites

• Linux(Ubuntu). The tutorial was developed on an Azure Linux DSVM
• Docker installed. NOTE: Even with docker installed you may need to set it up so that you don't require sudo to execute docker commands see "Manage Docker as a non-root user"
• Dockerhub account
• Port 9999 open: Jupyter notebook will use port 9999 so please ensure that it is open. For instructions on how to do that on Azure see here

Setting Up

1. Clone the repo:

git clone <repo web URL>

2. Login to Docker with your username and password.

docker login

3. Go to the framework folder you would like to run the notebooks for.
4. Create a conda environment:

conda env create -f environment.yml

5. Activate the environment:

source activate <environment name>

6. Run:

jupyter notebook

7. Start the first notebook and make sure the kernel corresponding to the above environment is selected.

Cleaning up

To remove the conda environment created see here

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