KFServing

Model serving using KFServing

Beta

This Kubeflow component has beta status. See the Kubeflow versioning policies. The Kubeflow team is interested in your feedback about the usability of the feature.

KFServing enables serverless inferencing on Kubernetes and provides performant, high abstraction interfaces for common machine learning (ML) frameworks like TensorFlow, XGBoost, scikit-learn, PyTorch, and ONNX to solve production model serving use cases.

You can use KFServing to do the following:

• Provide a Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition for serving ML models on arbitrary frameworks.

• Encapsulate the complexity of autoscaling, networking, health checking, and server configuration to bring cutting edge serving features like GPU autoscaling, scale to zero, and canary rollouts to your ML deployments.

• Enable a simple, pluggable, and complete story for your production ML inference server by providing prediction, pre-processing, post-processing and explainability out of the box.

Our strong community contributions help KFServing to grow. We have a Technical Steering Committee driven by Bloomberg, IBM Cloud, Seldon, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NVIDIA. Browse the KFServing GitHub repo to give us feedback!

Install with Kubeflow

KFServing works with Kubeflow 1.2. Kustomize installation files are located in the manifests repo. Check the examples running KFServing on Istio/Dex in the kubeflow/kfserving repository. For installation on major cloud providers with Kubeflow, follow their installation docs.

Kubeflow 1.2 includes KFServing v0.4.1, where the focus has been on enabling KFServing on OpenShift and additionally providing more features, such as adding batcher module as sidecar, Triton inference server renaming and integrations, upgrading Alibi explainer to 0.4.0, updating logger to CloudEvents V1 protocol and allowing customized URL paths on data plane. Additionally, the minimum Istio version is now v1.3.1. More details can be found here and here

Examples

Deploy models with out-of-the-box model servers

• TensorFlow
• PyTorch
• XGBoost
• Scikit-Learn
• ONNXRuntime

Deploy models with custom model servers

• Custom
• BentoML

Deploy models on GPU

• GPU
• Nvidia Triton Inference Server

Autoscaling and Rollouts

• Autoscaling
• Canary Rollout

Model explainability and outlier detection

• Explainability
• OutlierDetection

Integrations

• Transformer
• Kafka
• Pipelines
• Request/Response logging

Model Storages

• Azure
• S3
• On-prem cluster

Sample notebooks

• SDK client
• Transformer (pre/post processing)
• ONNX

We frequently add examples to our GitHub repo.

Learn more

• Join our working group for meeting invitations and discussion.
• Read the docs.
• API docs.
• Debugging guide.
• Roadmap.
• KFServing 101 slides.
• Kubecon Introducing KFServing.
• Kubecon Advanced KFServing.
• Nvidia GTC Accelerate and Autoscale Deep Learning Inference on GPUs.

Standalone KFServing

Install Knative/Istio

Knative Serving (v0.11.2 +), Istio (v1.3.1+), and Cert Manager(v0.12.0+) should be available on your Kubernetes cluster. For installing KFServing prerequisites, refer to the README section.

KFServing installation

Once you meet the above prerequisites KFServing can be installed standalone. Check the KFServing install directory for other available releases.

Monitoring

• Setup Monitoring

Use SDK

1. Install the SDK with PiPy.

   pip install kfserving

2. Follow the example(s) to use the KFServing SDK to create, patch, roll out, and delete a KFServing instance.

Contribute

• Developer guide.

Last modified 16.03.2021: Move KFServing to under Components, out of `Tools for serving` (#2538) (0a967d23)