This sample shows you how to operationalize your Machine Learning development cycle with Azure Machine Learning Service and Azure Databricks - as a compute target - by leveraging Azure DevOps Pipelines as the orchestrator for the whole flow.

By running this project, you will have the opportunity to work with Azure workloads, such as:

This repository contains the base structure for you to start developing your Machine Learning project using:

• Azure Machine Learning Service
• Azure Databricks
• Azure Container Instance

To have all the resources set, leverage the following resource to get your infrastructure ready:

• Setting up your cloud infrastructure

After you have your infrastructure set, it's time to have your Azure DevOps connected to it to start orchestrating your Machine Learning pipeline.

If you don't have an Azure DevOps account, please refer to this doc to have it set up.

You will find resources and docs to have Azure DevOps orchestrating your pipeline by following this guidance:

• Setting up the training pipeline

This code sample reproduces the Image Classification, a convolutional neural network image classification. For more details of the project structure, check the project structure page.

This project structure was also based on the cookiecutter data science project template.

This sample provides you two options to have your environment set up for developing and debugging locally. The focus of these docs is on how to have all the required environment variables set so you can invoke and debug this code on your machine.

• See this page for details on how to debug using Visual Studio Code
• See this page for looking into details on how to have the enrironment variables set using Bash

A Machine Learning project being developed by a team of Data Engineers/Data Analysts, using Python.

The team develops the code to train the Machine Learning model and they need to orchestrate the way this code gets tested, trained, packaged and deployed.

Testing the code that generages a model is crucial to the success and accuracy of the model being developed.

The code being developed will produce a Machine Learning model that will help people to take decisions, when not being the main responsible for the decisions itself.

That's why testing the units of the code to make sure it meets the requirements is a fundamental piece of the development cycle.

You will achieve it using the following capabilities:

• Python Unit Testing frameworks
• Azure DevOps

This project is all about generating a Machine Learning model, which needs to be trained. Training a model requires compute power and orchestration.

Compute power is commonly an expensive asset and that's why this project leverages cloud workloads to optimize resource consumption and avoiding upfront costs.

To enable this, the following capabilities will be used:

• Machine Learning Python SDKs
• Azure Databricks
• Azure DevOps

The resulting model from the training step needs to be deployed somewhere so the edge can consume it. There are a few ways to achieve it and, for this scenario, you will deploy this model as part of a Docker Container.

A container has the power of having all the dependencies the application needs to run encapsulated within it. It is also easily portable to multiple different platforms.

To take advantage of deploying the model to a container, you will use:

• Azure DevOps
• Azure Container Instances
• Azure Machine Learning Service

See this page for details on setting release pipeline to deploy model