Deploying models with Watson Machine Learning

Using IBM Watson Machine Learning, you can deploy models, scripts, and functions, manage your deployments, and prepare your assets to put into production to generate predictions and insights.

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This graphic illustrates a typical process for a machine learning model.

Building a Machine Learning model

Depending on what is installed and configured for your deployment, you can:

Build, train, and deploy models from notebooks using the Watson Machine Learning Python client library or the Watson Machine Learning API .
Create AutoAI experiments. AutoAI automatically preprocesses your structured data, selects the best estimator for the data, and then generates model candidate pipelines for you to review and compare. Deploy the best performing pipeline as a machine learning model.
Run experiments to train complex models in Experiment builder.
Deploy your models so that you can score the models and generate predictions.

Using Watson Machine Learning in High Availability mode

By default, Watson Machine Learning is installed with a default scaling configuration of small, meaning the services run on a single pod. To configure Watson Machine Learning for a high availability option, where the service runs on two pods, the system administrator can use the scaling option for the installation script to change the configuration from small to medium.

Running Watson Machine Learning without IBM Watson Studio

If Watson Studio is not installed, you will not be able to access any of the model-building tools and you will have to save your machine learning models to a deployment space programmatically. Additionally, you will be unable to create a batch deployment through the Analytic deployment space interface. Batch deployment requires that you upload a data asset from a project to a space to use as input for the deployment. Projects are not available without Watson Studio.

Parent topic: Deploying and managing models and functions