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Deploy InferenceService with a saved model from a URI

This doc guides to specify a model object via the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) of the model object exposed via an http or https endpoint.

This storageUri option supports single file models, like sklearn which is specified by a joblib file, or artifacts (e.g. tar or zip) which contain all the necessary dependencies for other model types (e.g. tensorflow or pytorch). Here, we'll show examples from both of the above.

Create HTTP/HTTPS header Secret and attach to Service account

The HTTP/HTTPS service request headers can be defined as secret and attached to service account. This is optional.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: mysecret
type: Opaque
data:
  https-host: ZXhhbXBsZS5jb20=
  headers: |-
    ewoiYWNjb3VudC1uYW1lIjogInNvbWVfYWNjb3VudF9uYW1lIiwKInNlY3JldC1rZXkiOiAic29tZV9zZWNyZXRfa2V5Igp9
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: sa
secrets:
  - name: mysecret

kubectl apply -f create-uri-secret.yaml

Note

The serviceAccountName specified in your predictor in your inference service. These headers will be applied to any http/https requests that have the same host.

The header and host should be base64 encoded format. 

example.com
# echo -n "example.com" | base64
ZXhhbXBsZS5jb20=
---
{
  "account-name": "some_account_name",
  "secret-key": "some_secret_key"
}
# echo -n '{\n"account-name": "some_account_name",\n"secret-key": "some_secret_key"\n}' | base64
ewoiYWNjb3VudC1uYW1lIjogInNvbWVfYWNjb3VudF9uYW1lIiwKInNlY3JldC1rZXkiOiAic29tZV9zZWNyZXRfa2V5Igp9

Sklearn

Train and freeze the model

Here, we'll train a simple iris model. Please note that KServe requires sklearn==0.20.3.

from sklearn import svm
from sklearn import datasets
import joblib

def train(X, y):
    clf = svm.SVC(gamma='auto')
    clf.fit(X, y)
    return clf

def freeze(clf, path='../frozen'):
    joblib.dump(clf, f'{path}/model.joblib')
    return True

if __name__ == '__main__':
    iris = datasets.load_iris()
    X, y = iris.data, iris.target
    clf = train(X, y)
    freeze(clf)

Now, the frozen model object can be put it somewhere on the web to expose it. For instance, pushing the model.joblib file to some repo on GitHub.

Specify and create the InferenceService

apiVersion: serving.kserve.io/v1beta1
kind: InferenceService
metadata:
  name: sklearn-from-uri
spec:
  predictor:
    sklearn:
      storageUri: https://github.com/tduffy000/kfserving-uri-examples/blob/master/sklearn/frozen/model.joblib?raw=true

apiVersion: serving.kserve.io/v1beta1
kind: InferenceService
metadata:
  name: sklearn-from-uri
spec:
  predictor:
    model:
      modelFormat:
        name: sklearn
      storageUri: https://github.com/tduffy000/kfserving-uri-examples/blob/master/sklearn/frozen/model.joblib?raw=true

Apply the sklearn-from-uri.yaml.

kubectl apply -f sklearn-from-uri.yaml

Run a prediction

Now, the ingress can be accessed at ${INGRESS_HOST}:${INGRESS_PORT} or follow this instruction to find out the ingress IP and port.

An example payload below: 

{
  "instances": [
    [6.8,  2.8,  4.8,  1.4],
    [6.0,  3.4,  4.5,  1.6]
  ]
}


SERVICE_HOSTNAME=$(kubectl get inferenceservice sklearn-from-uri -o jsonpath='{.status.url}' | cut -d "/" -f 3)

MODEL_NAME=sklearn-from-uri
INPUT_PATH=@./input.json
curl -v -H "Host: ${SERVICE_HOSTNAME}" http://${INGRESS_HOST}:${INGRESS_PORT}/v1/models/$MODEL_NAME:predict -d $INPUT_PATH

Expected Output 

$ *   Trying 127.0.0.1:8080...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8080 (#0)
> POST /v1/models/sklearn-from-uri:predict HTTP/1.1
> Host: sklearn-from-uri.default.example.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.68.0
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 76
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
>
* upload completely sent off: 76 out of 76 bytes
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< content-length: 23
< content-type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
< date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 15:52:55 GMT
< server: istio-envoy
< x-envoy-upstream-service-time: 7
<
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
{"predictions": [1, 1]}

Tensorflow

This will serve as an example of the ability to also pull in a tarball containing all of the required model dependencies, for instance tensorflow requires multiple files in a strict directory structure in order to be servable.

Train and freeze the model

from sklearn import datasets
import numpy as np
import tensorflow as tf

def _ohe(targets):
    y = np.zeros((150, 3))
    for i, label in enumerate(targets):
        y[i, label] = 1.0
    return y

def train(X, y, epochs, batch_size=16):
    model = tf.keras.Sequential([
        tf.keras.layers.InputLayer(input_shape=(4,)),
        tf.keras.layers.Dense(16, activation=tf.nn.relu),
        tf.keras.layers.Dense(16, activation=tf.nn.relu),
        tf.keras.layers.Dense(3, activation='softmax')
    ])
    model.compile(tf.keras.optimizers.RMSprop(learning_rate=0.001), loss='categorical_crossentropy', metrics=['accuracy'])
    model.fit(X, y, epochs=epochs)
    return model

def freeze(model, path='../frozen'):
    model.save(f'{path}/0001')
    return True

if __name__ == '__main__':
    iris = datasets.load_iris()
    X, targets = iris.data, iris.target
    y = _ohe(targets)
    model = train(X, y, epochs=50)
    freeze(model)

The post-training procedure here is a bit different. Instead of directly pushing the frozen output to some URI, we'll need to package them into a tarball. To do so,

cd ../frozen
tar -cvf artifacts.tar 0001/
gzip < artifacts.tar > artifacts.tgz
Where we assume the 0001/ directory has the structure: 
|-- 0001/
|-- saved_model.pb
|-- variables/
|--- variables.data-00000-of-00001
|--- variables.index

Note

Building the tarball from the directory specifying a version number is required for tensorflow.

Specify and create the InferenceService

And again, if everything went to plan we should be able to pull down the tarball and expose the endpoint.

apiVersion: serving.kserve.io/v1beta1
kind: InferenceService
metadata:
  name: tensorflow-from-uri-gzip
spec:
  predictor:
    tensorflow:
      storageUri: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tduffy000/kfserving-uri-examples/master/tensorflow/frozen/model_artifacts.tar.gz

kubectl apply -f tensorflow-from-uri-gzip.yaml

Run a prediction

Again, the ingress can be accessed at ${INGRESS_HOST}:${INGRESS_PORT} or follow this instruction to find out the ingress IP and port.

An example payload below: 

{
  "instances": [
    [6.8,  2.8,  4.8,  1.4],
    [6.0,  3.4,  4.5,  1.6]
  ]
}


SERVICE_HOSTNAME=$(kubectl get inferenceservice tensorflow-from-uri-gzip -o jsonpath='{.status.url}' | cut -d "/" -f 3)

MODEL_NAME=tensorflow-from-uri-gzip
INPUT_PATH=@./input.json
curl -v -H "Host: ${SERVICE_HOSTNAME}" http://${INGRESS_HOST}:${INGRESS_PORT}/v1/models/$MODEL_NAME:predict -d $INPUT_PATH

Expected Output 

$ *   Trying 10.0.1.16...
* TCP_NODELAY set
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0* Connected to 10.0.1.16 (10.0.1.16) port 30749 (#0)
> POST /v1/models/tensorflow-from-uri:predict HTTP/1.1
> Host: tensorflow-from-uri.default.example.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.58.0
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 86
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
>
} [86 bytes data]
* upload completely sent off: 86 out of 86 bytes
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< content-length: 112
< content-type: application/json
< date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 23:21:19 GMT
< x-envoy-upstream-service-time: 151
< server: istio-envoy
<
{ [112 bytes data]
100   198  100   112  100    86    722    554 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  1285
* Connection #0 to host 10.0.1.16 left intact
{
  "predictions": [
    [
      0.0204100646,
      0.680984616,
      0.298605353
    ],
    [
      0.0296604875,
      0.658412039,
      0.311927497
    ]
  ]
}
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