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### Project Overview
In this project(Microservices at scale using AWS and Kubernetes), I have applied the skills I have acquired in this course to operationalize a Machine Learning Microservice API and I have used AWS cloud9 IDE for all my project work.
There is a pre-trained, `sklearn` model that has been trained to predict housing prices in Boston according to several features, such as average rooms in a home and data about highway access, teacher-to-pupil ratios, and so on. To read more about the data, which was initially taken from Kaggle, on [the data source site](https://www.kaggle.com/c/boston-housing). This project tests the ability to operationalize a Python flask app—in a provided file, `app.py`—that serves out predictions (inference) about housing prices through API calls. This project could be extended to any pre-trained machine learning model, such as those for image recognition and data labeling.
### Project Tasks
The project goal is to operationalize this working, machine learning microservice using [kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/), which is an open-source system for automating the management of containerized applications. In this project below concepts are applied:
* Test your project code using linting
* Complete a Dockerfile to containerize this application
* Deploy your containerized application using Docker and make a prediction
* Improve the log statements in the source code for this application
* Configure Kubernetes and create a Kubernetes cluster
* Deploy a container using Kubernetes and make a prediction
* Upload a complete Github repo with CircleCI to indicate that your code has been tested
## Setup the Environment
* Create a virtualenv and activate it.
* Run `make install` to install the necessary dependencies required for running the application like Hadoling and from requirements.txt
### Running `app.py` in different cases.
1. Standalone in my local: `python app.py`
2. To run in Docker: `./run_docker.sh`
3. To run in Kubernetes: `./run_kubernetes.sh`
### Kubernetes Steps
* Setup and Configure Docker locally
* Setup and Configure Kubernetes locally
* Setup and Configure Minikube locally
* Create Flask app in Container
* Run via kubectl