MLOps Pipelines: Automating the ML Lifecycle

MLOps Pipelines: Automating the ML Lifecycle

MLOps brings DevOps practices to machine learning. This guide implements production ML pipelines with Kubeflow and MLflow.

MLflow Experiment Tracking

Track experiments with automatic logging:

Kubeflow Pipeline

Orchestrate end-to-end ML workflow:

Data Versioning with DVC

Version control for datasets:

Continuous Training

Automatically retrain on new data:

Warnings ⚠️

Pipeline Complexity: Multi-stage pipelines accumulate failure modes. The 2034 "Pipeline Cascade" occurred when 300-step ML pipelines became impossible to debug.

Hidden Dependencies: Data lineage tracking fails, causing silent data quality issues.

Automation Runaway: Continuous training without human oversight deployed progressively worse models for weeks before detection.

Related Chronicles: The MLOps Meltdown (2034) - Automated systems deploying broken models

Tools: Kubeflow, MLflow, DVC, Airflow, Prefect, Weights & Biases

Research: Continuous learning systems, online learning, model monitoring