Deploying ML Models on Kubernetes

From Docker Containers to Production-Ready Kubernetes Deployments

By Sandip Das · · 21 min read

Deploying ML Models on Kubernetes
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Hey — It's Sandip Das 👋

We need Kubernetes to deploy containerized ML models reliably, scale inference workloads, and maintain consistent environments across development and production.
It also enables automated rollouts, self-healing services, resource management, and high availability for production ML systems


📚 Key Learnings

  • How to write Kubernetes Deployment and Service YAML manifests, field by field
  • How resource requests and limits decide where your pod lands and when it gets killed
  • How liveness, readiness, and startup probes work, and why ML containers need all three
  • How to ship a real image to Docker Hub and deploy it to minikube end to end

🧠 Learn here

On Day 12 you ran the iris API with docker run -p 8000:8000 iris-api:v1. That single command does a lot: it pulls an imag

Read the full article on learnxops.com.

Topics: 100 Days of MLOps, MLOps, ML, Community, Kubernetes