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Seldon Core is an open source platform for deploying machine learning models on Kubernetes.

• Goals
• Quick Start
• Example Components
• Integrations
• Install
• Deployment guide
• Reference
• Article/Blogs/Videos
• Community
• Developer
• Latest Seldon Images
• Usage Reporting

Machine learning deployment has many challenges. Seldon Core intends to help with these challenges. Its high level goals are:

• Allow organisations to run and manage machine learning models built using any machine learning toolkit. Any model that can be run inside a Docker container can run in Seldon Core.
• Provide a production ready machine learning deployment system on top of Kubernetes and integrating well with other Cloud Native tools.
• Provide the tools to allow complex metrics, optimization and proper compliance of machine learning models in production.
  • Optimize your models using multi-armed bandit solvers
  • Run Outlier Detection models
  • Get alerts on Concept Drift
  • Provide black-box model explanations of running models
• Automatically expose REST and gRPC endpoints to allow business application to easily call your machine learning models.
• Handle full lifecycle management of the deployed model:
  • Updating the runtime graph with no downtime
  • Scaling
  • Monitoring
  • Security

We have a roadmap which we welcome feedback.

A Kubernetes Cluster. Kubernetes can be deployed into many environments, both on cloud and on-premise.

Read the overview to using seldon-core.

• Jupyter notebooks showing examples:
  • Seldon Core Deployments using Helm
  • Seldon Core Deployments using Ksonnet

Seldon-core allows various types of components to be built and plugged into the runtime prediction graph. These include generic components such as models, routers, transformers and combiners. Some example components that are available as part of the project are:

• Models : example that illustrate simple machine learning models to help you build your own integrations
  • Python
    • Tensorflow MNIST Classifier
    • Keras MNIST Classifier
    • Scikit-learn MNIST Classifier
    • Scikit-learn Iris Classifier
  • R
    • R MNIST Classifier
    • R Iris Classifier
  • Java
    • H2O Classifier
  • NodeJS
    • Tensorflow MNIST Classifier
  • ONNX
    • ResNet ONNX Classifier using Intel nGraph
  • PMML
    • PySpark MNIST Classifier
  • MLFlow
    • MLFlow sklearn classifier
  • AWS SageMaker
    • SageMaker sklearn example

Seldon allows you to build up runtime inference graphs that provide powerful optimization and metrics for your running models. Example components that help ensure you provide a compliant production machine learning system are available:

• Multi-Armed Bandits
  • Epsilon-greedy multi-armed bandits for real time optimization of models (GCP example, Kubeflow example)
  • Thompson sampling multi-armed bandit (Credit card default case study)
• Outlier Detection
  • Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) Outlier Detector
  • Sequence-to-Sequence LSTM (seq2seq-LSTM) Outlier Detector
  • Isolation Forest Outlier Detector
  • Mahalanobis distance outlier detection.
• Ensembles
  • MNIST Average Combiner - ensembles sklearn and Tensorflow Models.

• kubeflow
  • Seldon-core can be installed as part of the kubeflow project. A detailed end-to-end example provides a complete workflow for training various models and deploying them using seldon-core.
• IBM's Fabric for Deep Learning
  • Seldon-core can be used to serve deep learning models trained using FfDL.
    • Train and deploy a Tensorflow MNIST classififer using FfDL and Seldon.
    • Train and deploy a PyTorch MNIST classififer using FfDL and Seldon.
• Istio and Seldon
  • Canary deployemts using Istio and Seldon..
• NVIDIA TensorRT and DL Inference Server
• Tensorflow Serving
• Intel OpenVINO
  • A Helm chart for easy integration and an example notebook using OpenVINO to serve imagenet model within Seldon Core.
• MLFlow
• SageMaker

Follow the install guide for details on ways to install seldon onto your Kubernetes cluster.

1. Wrap your runtime prediction model.
   • We provide easy to use wrappers for Python, R, Java, NodeJS and Go.
   • We have tools to test your wrapped components.
2. Define your runtime inference graph in a seldon deployment custom resource.
3. Deploy the graph.
4. Serve Predictions.

• Ambassador Configuration including:
  • Canary deployments
  • Shadow deployments
  • Header-based Routing to deployments
• Advanced graphs showing the various types of runtime prediction graphs that can be built.
• Handling large gRPC messages. Showing how you can add annotations to increase the gRPC max message size.
• Handling REST timeouts. Showing how you can add annotations to set the REST (and gRPC) timeouts.
• Distributed Tracing

• Prediction API
  • Proto Buffer Definitions
  • Open API Definitions
• Seldon Deployment Custom Resource
• Analytics

External content:

• GDG DevFest 2018 - Intro to Seldon and Outlier Detection
• Open Source Model Management Roundup Polyaxon, Argo and Seldon
• Kubecon Europe 2018 - Serving Machine Learning Models at Scale with Kubeflow and Seldon
• Polyaxon, Argo and Seldon for model training, package and deployment in Kubernetes
• Manage ML Deployments Like A Boss: Deploy Your First AB Test With Sklearn, Kubernetes and Seldon-core using Only Your Web Browser & Google Cloud
• Using PyTorch 1.0 and ONNX with Fabric for Deep Learning
• AI on Kubernetes - O'Reilly Tutorial
• Scalable Data Science - The State of DevOps/MLOps in 2018
• Istio Weekly Community Meeting - Seldon-core with Istio
• Openshift Commons ML SIG - Openshift S2I Helping ML Deployment with Seldon-Core
• Overview of Openshift source-to-image use in Seldon-Core
• IBM Framework for Deep Learning and Seldon-Core
• CartPole game by Reinforcement Learning, a journey from training to inference

Internal Tutorials:

• Seldon Tech Overview
  • Overview of Seldon Core technology.
• Seldon Core with Kubeflow Demo
  • End to end demo of hetrogeneous models trained within Kubeflow and deployed with Seldon. Shows continuous deployment from single model to A/B test to multi-armed bandit.

• 0.2.6 Release Highlights
• 0.2.5 Release Highlights
• 0.2.3 Release Highlights

• Benchmarking seldon-core

• Annotation based configuration.
• Notes for running in production.
• Helm configuration
• ksonnet configuration

• Slack Channel

• CHANGELOG
• Developer Guide

Tools that help the development of Seldon Core from anonymous usage.

• Usage Reporting with Spartakus