KodeKloud's 100 Days of MLOps: Days 1 - 10

Welcome to a new series of blog posts centered around the KodeKloud “100 Days of MLOps” challenge! If you’ve explored the blog before, the 100 Days of X challenges that KodeKloud puts out are a great set of exercises, in this case centered around MLOps! I’ve been really enjoying the 100 Days of DevOps series of challenges, and so I imagine that I’ll love digging in to the MLOps side of the house as well. Hopefully you enjoy it as much as I do!

Day 1: Create a Python Virtual Environment for ML

The xFusionCorp Industries data science team needs a standardised Python environment for their new ML project. Set up a virtual environment with the required ML libraries on the controlplane host.

Create a Python virtual environment named ml-env under /root/code/ using python3 -m venv. Activate the environment and install the following packages: numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, and matplotlib. Generate a requirements.txt file using pip freeze and save it at /root/code/requirements.txt.

This is a really straightforward set of tasks, especially if you’re familiar with Python to any degree. You’ve likely used one of the virtual environments before to keep dependencies straight and remove the risk of package conflicts across different projects. It’s nice and clean, super easy to use - there’s no reason to not deploy venv on a project, really.

To set up the environment, create a new one with the venv module (first command) and then activate it, dropping into our clean-slate environment (second command):

$ python3 -m venv ml-env
$ source ml-env/bin/activate

If you’ve used Python for any sort of development before, this workflow should feel familiar - install the libraries using pip install and then lock the versions using pip freeze like so:

$ pip install numpy pandas scikit-learn matplotlib
$ pip freeze > requirements.txt

And that’s it - a functional venv set up with the necessary packages.

Day 2: Set Up and Configure Jupyter Notebook Server

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Day 3: Fix a Broken uv Lockfile Specification

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Day 4: Create a Standard ML Project Structure

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Day 5: Create a Makefile for ML Workflow Automation

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Day 6: Set Up Code Quality Tools for ML Code

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Day 7: Package an ML Project as Installable Python Package

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Day 8: Configure Pre-Commit Hooks for ML Repository

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Day 9: Create a Custom ML Project Template with Cookiecutter

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Day 10: Install and Initialize DVC in an ML Project

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