Docker for Data Science : Building Scalable and Extensible Data Infrastructure Around the Jupyter Notebook Server

Description

Learn Docker "infrastructure as code" technology to define a system for performing standard but non-trivial data tasks on medium- to large-scale data sets, using Jupyter as the master controller. It is not uncommon for a real-world data set to fail to be easily managed. The set may not fit well into access memory or may require prohibitively long processing. These are significant challenges to skilled software engineers and they can render the standard Jupyter system unusable. As a solution to this problem, Docker for Data Science proposes using Docker. You will learn how to use existing pre-compiled public images created by the major open-source technologies—Python, Jupyter, Postgres—as well as using the Dockerfile to extend these images to suit your specific purposes. The Docker-Compose technology is examined and you will learn how it can be used to build a linked system with Python churning data behind the scenes and Jupyter managing these background tasks. Best practices in using existing images are explored as well as developing your own images to deploy state-of-the-art machine learning and optimization algorithms. What You'll Learn: Master interactive development using the Jupyter platform Run and build Docker containers from scratch and from publicly available open-source images Write infrastructure as code using the docker-compose tool and its docker-compose.yml file type Deploy a multi-service data science application across a cloud-based system. Read more... Abstract: Learn Docker "infrastructure as code" technology to define a system for performing standard but non-trivial data tasks on medium- to large-scale data sets, using Jupyter as the master controller. It is not uncommon for a real-world data set to fail to be easily managed. The set may not fit well into access memory or may require prohibitively long processing. These are significant challenges to skilled software engineers and they can render the standard Jupyter system unusable. As a solution to this problem, Docker for Data Science proposes using Docker. You will learn how to use existing pre-compiled public images created by the major open-source technologies—Python, Jupyter, Postgres—as well as using the Dockerfile to extend these images to suit your specific purposes. The Docker-Compose technology is examined and you will learn how it can be used to build a linked system with Python churning data behind the scenes and Jupyter managing these background tasks. Best practices in using existing images are explored as well as developing your own images to deploy state-of-the-art machine learning and optimization algorithms. What You'll Learn: Master interactive development using the Jupyter platform Run and build Docker containers from scratch and from publicly available open-source images Write infrastructure as code using the docker-compose tool and its docker-compose.yml file type Deploy a multi-service data science application across a cloud-based system Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi Introduction (Joshua Cook)....Pages 1-27 Docker (Joshua Cook)....Pages 29-47 Interactive Programming (Joshua Cook)....Pages 49-70 The Docker Engine (Joshua Cook)....Pages 71-79 The Dockerfile (Joshua Cook)....Pages 81-101 Docker Hub (Joshua Cook)....Pages 103-118 The Opinionated Jupyter Stacks (Joshua Cook)....Pages 119-135 The Data Stores (Joshua Cook)....Pages 137-178 Docker Compose (Joshua Cook)....Pages 179-211 Interactive Software Development (Joshua Cook)....Pages 213-251 Back Matter ....Pages 253-257