Kubeflow Pipelines

Overview of the Kubeflow pipelines service

Kubeflow is a machine learning (ML) toolkit that is dedicated to making deployments of ML workflows on Kubernetes simple, portable, and scalable.

Kubeflow pipelines are reusable end-to-end ML workflows built using the Kubeflow Pipelines SDK.

The Kubeflow pipelines service has the following goals:

• End to end orchestration: enabling and simplifying the orchestration of end to end machine learning pipelines
• Easy experimentation: making it easy for you to try numerous ideas and techniques, and manage your various trials/experiments.
• Easy re-use: enabling you to re-use components and pipelines to quickly cobble together end to end solutions, without having to re-build each time.

Installation

• Kubeflow Pipelines can be installed as part of the Kubeflow Platform. Alternatively you can deploy Kubeflow Pipelines as a standalone service.

• The Docker container runtime has been deprecated on Kubernetes 1.20+. Kubeflow Pipelines has switched to use Emissary Executor by default from Kubeflow Pipelines 1.8. Emissary executor is Container runtime agnostic, meaning you are able to run Kubeflow Pipelines on Kubernetes cluster with any Container runtimes.

Documentation

Get started with your first pipeline and read further information in the Kubeflow Pipelines overview.

See the various ways you can use the Kubeflow Pipelines SDK.

See the Kubeflow Pipelines API doc for API specification.

Consult the Python SDK reference docs when writing pipelines using the Python SDK.

Contributing to Kubeflow Pipelines

Before you start contributing to Kubeflow Pipelines, read the guidelines in How to Contribute. To learn how to build and deploy Kubeflow Pipelines from source code, reagd the developer guide.

Kubeflow Pipelines Community

Community Meeting

The Kubeflow Pipelines Community Meeting occurs every other Wed 10-11AM (PST).

Calendar Invite

Direct Meeting Link

Meeting notes

Slack

We also have a slack channel (#kubeflow-pipelines) on the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Slack workspace. You can find more details at https://www.kubeflow.org/docs/about/community/#kubeflow-slack-channels

Architecture

Details about the KFP Architecture can be found at Architecture.md

Blog posts

• Getting started with Kubeflow Pipelines (By Amy Unruh)
• How to create and deploy a Kubeflow Machine Learning Pipeline (By Lak Lakshmanan)
  • Part 1: How to create and deploy a Kubeflow Machine Learning Pipeline
  • Part 2: How to deploy Jupyter notebooks as components of a Kubeflow ML pipeline
  • Part 3: How to carry out CI/CD in Machine Learning (“MLOps”) using Kubeflow ML pipelines
• Tekton optimizations for Kubeflow Pipelines 2.0 (By Tommy Li)

Acknowledgments

Kubeflow pipelines uses Argo Workflows by default under the hood to orchestrate Kubernetes resources. The Argo community has been very supportive and we are very grateful. Additionally there is Tekton backend available as well. To access it, please refer to Kubeflow Pipelines with Tekton repository.