clearml-docs/docs/clearml_serving/clearml_serving.md
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title: Introduction
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`clearml-serving` is a command line utility for model deployment and orchestration.
It enables model deployment including serving and preprocessing code to a Kubernetes cluster or custom container based
solution.
## Features
* Easy to deploy & configure
* Support Machine Learning Models (Scikit Learn, XGBoost, LightGBM)
* Support Deep Learning Models (Tensorflow, PyTorch, ONNX)
* Customizable RestAPI for serving (i.e. allow per model pre/post-processing for easy integration)
* Flexible
* On-line model deployment
* On-line endpoint model/version deployment (i.e. no need to take the service down)
* Per model standalone preprocessing and postprocessing python code
* Scalable
* Multi model per container
* Multi models per serving service
* Multi-service support (fully seperated multiple serving service running independently)
* Multi cluster support
* Out-of-the-box node auto-scaling based on load/usage
* Efficient
* Multi-container resource utilization
* Support for CPU & GPU nodes
* Auto-batching for DL models
* [Automatic deployment](clearml_serving_tutorial.md#automatic-model-deployment)
* Automatic model upgrades w/ canary support
* Programmable API for model deployment
* [Canary A/B deployment](clearml_serving_tutorial.md#canary-endpoint-setup) - online Canary updates
* [Model Monitoring](clearml_serving_tutorial.md#model-monitoring-and-performance-metrics)
* Usage Metric reporting
* Metric Dashboard
* Model performance metric
* Model performance Dashboard
## Components
![ClearML Serving](https://github.com/allegroai/clearml-serving/raw/main/docs/design_diagram.png?raw=true)
* **CLI** - Secure configuration interface for on-line model upgrade/deployment on running Serving Services
* **Serving Service Task** - Control plane object storing configuration on all the endpoints. Support multiple separated
instance, deployed on multiple clusters.
* **Inference Services** - Inference containers, performing model serving pre/post processing. Also supports CPU model
inferencing.
* **Serving Engine Services** - Inference engine containers (e.g. Nvidia Triton, TorchServe etc.) used by the Inference
Services for heavier model inference.
* **Statistics Service** - Single instance per Serving Service collecting and broadcasting model serving & performance
statistics
* **Time-series DB** - Statistics collection service used by the Statistics Service, e.g. Prometheus
* **Dashboards** - Customizable dashboard solution on top of the collected statistics, e.g. Grafana
## Installation
### Prerequisites
* ClearML-Server : Model repository, Service Health, Control plane
* Kubernetes / Single-instance Machine : Deploying containers
* CLI : Configuration & model deployment interface
### Initial Setup
1. Set up your [ClearML Server](../deploying_clearml/clearml_server.md) or use the
[free hosted service](https://app.clear.ml)
1. Connect `clearml` SDK to the server, see instructions [here](../getting_started/ds/ds_first_steps.md#install-clearml)
1. Install clearml-serving CLI:
```bash
pip3 install clearml-serving
```
1. Create the Serving Service Controller:
```bash
clearml-serving create --name "serving example"
```
The new serving service UID should be printed
```console
New Serving Service created: id=aa11bb22aa11bb22
```
Write down the Serving Service UID
1. Clone the `clearml-serving` repository:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/allegroai/clearml-serving.git
```
1. Edit the environment variables file (docker/example.env) with your clearml-server credentials and Serving Service UID.
For example, you should have something like
```bash
cat docker/example.env
```
```console
CLEARML_WEB_HOST="https://app.clear.ml"
CLEARML_API_HOST="https://api.clear.ml"
CLEARML_FILES_HOST="https://files.clear.ml"
CLEARML_API_ACCESS_KEY="<access_key_here>"
CLEARML_API_SECRET_KEY="<secret_key_here>"
CLEARML_SERVING_TASK_ID="<serving_service_id_here>"
```
1. Spin up the `clearml-serving` containers with `docker-compose` (or if running on Kubernetes, use the helm chart)
```bash
cd docker && docker-compose --env-file example.env -f docker-compose.yml up
```
If you need Triton support (keras/pytorch/onnx etc.), use the triton docker-compose file
```bash
cd docker && docker-compose --env-file example.env -f docker-compose-triton.yml up
```
If running on a GPU instance w/ Triton support (keras/pytorch/onnx etc.), use the triton gpu docker-compose file:
```bash
cd docker && docker-compose --env-file example.env -f docker-compose-triton-gpu.yml up
```
:::note
Any model that registers with Triton engine will run the pre/post processing code on the Inference service container,
and the model inference itself will be executed on the Triton Engine container.
:::
### Advanced Setup - S3/GS/Azure Access (Optional)
To add access credentials and allow the inference containers to download models from your S3/GS/Azure object-storage,
add the respective environment variables to your env files (example.env). See further details on configuring the storage
access [here](../integrations/storage.md#configuring-storage).
```
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT
AZURE_STORAGE_KEY
```
## Tutorial
For further details, see the ClearML Serving [Tutorial](clearml_serving_tutorial.md).