Administrative Information

Title Serving Production Models
Duration 60 minutes
Module B
Lesson Type Tutorial
Focus Practical
Topic Deploying Models in a Production Environment

Learning Goals

Learner is familiar with the concept and application of containerization.
Learner understands TFX serving.
Learner is able to apply serving locally and on Azure Container instances.

Expected Preparation

Learning Events to be Completed Before

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Obligatory for Students

Background for Students

  • Aditya Khosla, Nityananda Jayadevaprakash, Bangpeng Yao and Li Fei-Fei. Novel dataset for Fine-Grained Image Categorization. First Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011.

Recommended for Teachers

  • Do the tasks listed as obligatory and optional for the students.

Instructions for Teachers

Production Models using TFX Serving

  • This tutorial will introduce students to taking a trained model that was developed in a Jupyter Notebook (using TensorFlow 2.x and Keras) and saving the model in TensorFlow format. The tutorial will start by developing a basic CNN to identify the breed of a dog. We then save the model as a Tensorflow model. The tutorial uses the TFX (TensorFlow Extended) approach for MLOps where we focus this tutorial on the TRX serving component, which is building RESTful APIs to use/query in production environments. To do this we build a Docker TFX serving image, and deploy this image:
    • Locally (localhost)
    • Via Azure Container Instances (ACI), where a public IP address can be queried
  • There are prior installs needed, please see “Preparation for Tutorial (obligatory)” above.
  • The dataset is the Stanford dogs dataset, in which we use two classes of dogs, Jack Russells and Rhodesian Ridgebacks, the complete dataset can be found here, We have also provided the subset used in this tutorial in the dataset section below.
  • We have also provided all of the Docker CLI commands at the bottom of this tutorial page.
https://www.tensorflow.org/tfx/guide

Topics to cover

  • Problem 1: Building a CNN model using a subset of the Stanford dogs dataset, saving this model as a TensorFlow model (20 mins)
  • Problem 2: Deploying the TensorFlow model to a Rest API locally (using Docker) and querying the model (10 mins)
  • Problem 3: Deploying the TensorFlow model to a Rest API using Azure Container Instances (ACI) (using Docker) and querying the model (20 mins)
  • Recap on the forward pass process (10 mins)

Tutorial Content

Video Tutorial

JN Notebook: (.ipynb)

HTML Notebook

Datasets

Stanford dogs dataset complete dataset can be found here

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Docker CLI commands

The following command line interface commands are used in this tutorial to run the models.

Run locally

Step 1: Pull tensorflow

docker pull tensorflow/serving:latest-gpu

Step 2: Run the image

docker run --gpus all -p 8501:8501 --name tfserving_classifier --mount type=bind,source=c:\production\,target=/models/img_classifier -e MODEL_NAME=img_classifier -t tensorflow/serving:latest-gpu

or with no GPU

docker run -p 8501:8501 --name tfserving_classifier --mount type=bind,source=c:\production\,target=/models/img_classifier -e MODEL_NAME=img_classifier -t tensorflow/serving:latest-gpu

Run on Azure using ACI

Step 1: Modify the local image to have the model included

docker run -d --name serving_base tensorflow/serving:latest-gpu
docker cp c:\production\ serving_base:/models/img_classifier
docker ps -a   # to get id
docker commit --change "ENV MODEL_NAME img_classifier" <id goes here> tensorflow_dogs_gpu
docker kill serving_base

Step 2: Deploy Image to Azure ACI

docker login azure
docker context create aci deleteme
docker context use deleteme
docker run -p 8501:8501 kquille/tensorflow_dogs_gpu:kq

Step 3: Access the ACI logs, IP address, and then stop and remove the ACI service =====

docker logs jolly-ride
docker ps
docker stop jolly-ride
docker rm jolly-ride

Acknowledgements

The Human-Centered AI Masters programme was Co-Financed by the Connecting Europe Facility of the European Union Under Grant №CEF-TC-2020-1 Digital Skills 2020-EU-IA-0068.

The materials of this learning event are available under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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