Ingress with AmbassadorΒΆ

Seldon Core works well with Ambassador, allowing a single ingress to be used to expose Ambassador and running machine learning deployments that can then be dynamically exposed through Seldon-created Ambassador configurations. Ambassador is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway built on Envoy Proxy. Managed entirely via Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions, Ambassador provides powerful capabilities for traffic management, authentication, and observability. Ambassador has native integrations for popular service meshes, including Consul, Istio, and Linkerd. In this doc we will discuss how your Seldon Deployments are exposed via Ambassador and how you can use both to do various production rollout strategies.

Installing AmbassadorΒΆ

Seldon Core currently supports the V2 Ambassador API and also for legacy customers the V1 Ambassador API. Follow the Ambassador docs.

When using the helm install of Seldon Core you can set which version of Ambassador APIs to use with ambassador.version which defaults to v2.

Ambassador RESTΒΆ

Assuming Ambassador is exposed at <ambassadorEndpoint> and with a Seldon deployment name <deploymentName> running in a namespace namespace:

Note, if you chose to install the Ambassador Edge Stack then you will need to use https. You can either set up TLS or pass the -k flag in curl to allow the self-signed certificate.

For Seldon Core restricted to a namespace, singleNamespace=true, the endpoints exposed are:

  • http(s)://<ambassadorEndpoint>/seldon/<deploymentName>/api/v1.0/predictions

  • http(s)://<ambassadorEndpoint>/seldon/<namespace>/<deploymentName>/api/v1.0/predictions

For Seldon Core running cluster wide, singleNamespace=false, the endpoints exposed are all namespaced:

  • http(s)://<ambassadorEndpoint>/seldon/<namespace>/<deploymentName>/api/v1.0/predictions

Example CurlΒΆ

Ambassador RESTΒΆ

If you installed the OSS Ambassador API Gateway, and assuming a Seldon Deployment mymodel with Ambassador exposed on 0.0.0.0:8003 you can send a curl request as follows:

curl -v 0.0.0.0:8003/seldon/mymodel/api/v1.0/predictions -d '{"data":{"names":["a","b"],"tensor":{"shape":[2,2],"values":[0,0,1,1]}}}' -H "Content-Type: application/json"

Alternatively, if you installed the Ambassador Edge Stack with TLS configured, and assuming a Seldon Deployment mymodel with the Ambassador hostname example-hostname.com:

curl -v https://example-hostname.com/seldon/mymodel/api/v1.0/predictions -d '{"data":{"names":["a","b"],"tensor":{"shape":[2,2],"values":[0,0,1,1]}}}' -H "Content-Type: application/json"

If you did not, you can use the exposed IP address in place of example-hostname and pass the -k flag for insecure TLS.

curl -vk https://0.0.0.0/seldon/mymodel/api/v1.0/predictions -d '{"data":{"names":["a","b"],"tensor":{"shape":[2,2],"values":[0,0,1,1]}}}' -H "Content-Type: application/json"

Ambassador Configuration Annotations ReferenceΒΆ

Annotation

Description

seldon.io/ambassador-config:<configuration>

Custom Ambassador Configuration (v1 only)

seldon.io/ambassador-header:<header>

The header to add to Ambassador configuration

seldon.io/ambassador-id:<instance id>

The instance id to be added to Ambassador ambassador_id configuration

seldon.io/ambassador-regex-header:<regex>

The regular expression header to use for routing via headers

seldon.io/ambassador-retries:<number of retries>

The number of times ambassador will retry request on connect-failure. Default 0. Use custom configuration if more control needed.

seldon.io/ambassador-service-name:<existing_deployment_name>

The name of the existing Seldon Deployment for shadow or header based routing

seldon.io/grpc-timeout: <gRPC read timeout (msecs)>

gRPC read timeout

seldon.io/rest-timeout:<REST read timeout (msecs)>

REST read timeout

seldon.io/ambassador-circuit-breakers-max-connections:<maximum number of connections>

The maximum number of connections will make to the Seldon Deployment

seldon.io/ambassador-circuit-breakers-max-pending-requests:<maximum number of queued requests>

The maximum number of requests that will be queued while waiting for a connection

seldon.io/ambassador-circuit-breakers-max-requests:<maximum number of parallel outstanding requests>

The maximum number of parallel outstanding requests to the Seldon Deployment

seldon.io/ambassador-circuit-breakers-max-retries:<maximum number of parallel retries>

The maximum number of parallel retries allowed to the Seldon Deployment

All annotations should be placed in spec.annotations.

See below for details.

Canary DeploymentsΒΆ

Canary rollouts are available where you wish to push a certain percentage of traffic to a new model to test whether it works ok in production. To add a canary to your SeldonDeployment simply add a new predictor section and set the traffic levels for the main and canary to desired levels. For example:

apiVersion: machinelearning.seldon.io/v1alpha2
kind: SeldonDeployment
metadata:
  name: example
spec:
  name: canary-example
  predictors:
  - componentSpecs:
    - spec:
        containers:
        - image: seldonio/mock_classifier_rest:1.2.1
          name: classifier
    graph:
      children: []
      endpoint:
        type: REST
      name: classifier
      type: MODEL
    name: main
    replicas: 1
    traffic: 75
  - componentSpecs:
    - spec:
        containers:
        - image: seldonio/mock_classifier_rest:1.2.2
          name: classifier
    graph:
      children: []
      endpoint:
        type: REST
      name: classifier
      type: MODEL
    name: canary
    replicas: 1
    traffic: 25

The above example has a β€œmain” predictor with 75% of traffic and a β€œcanary” with 25%.

A worked example for canary deployments is provided.

Shadow DeploymentsΒΆ

Shadow deployments allow you to send duplicate requests to a parallel deployment but throw away the response. This allows you to test machine learning models under load and compare the results to the live deployment.

Simply set the shadow boolean in your shadow predictor.

A worked example for shadow deployments is provided.

To understand more about the Ambassador configuration for this see their docs on shadow deployments.

Header based RoutingΒΆ

Header based routing allows you to route requests to particular Seldon Deployments based on headers in the incoming requests.

You simply need to add some annotations to your Seldon Deployment resource.

  • seldon.io/ambassador-header:<header> : The header to add to Ambassador configuration

    • Example: "seldon.io/ambassador-header":"location: london"

  • seldon.io/ambassador-regex-header:<header> : The regular expression header to add to Ambassador configuration

    • Example: "seldon.io/ambassador-header":"location: lond.*"

  • seldon.io/ambassador-service-name:<existing_deployment_name> : The name of the existing Seldon Deployment you want to attach to as an alternative mapping for requests.

    • Example: "seldon.io/ambassador-service-name":"example"

A worked example for header based routing is provided.

To understand more about the Ambassador configuration for this see their docs on header based routing.

Circuit BreakersΒΆ

By preventing additional connections or requests to an overloaded Seldon Deployment, circuit breakers help improve resilience of your system.

You simply need to add some annotations to your Seldon Deployment resource.

  • seldon.io/ambassador-circuit-breakers-max-connections:<maximum number of connections> : The maximum number of connections will make to the Seldon Deployment

    • Example: "seldon.io/ambassador-circuit-breakers-max-connections":"200"

  • seldon.io/ambassador-circuit-breakers-max-pending-requests:<maximum number of queued requests> : The maximum number of requests that will be queued while waiting for a connection

    • Example: "seldon.io/ambassador-circuit-breakers-max-pending-requests":"100"

  • seldon.io/ambassador-circuit-breakers-max-requests:<maximum number of parallel outstanding requests> : The maximum number of parallel outstanding requests to the Seldon Deployment

    • Example: "seldon.io/ambassador-circuit-breakers-max-requests":"200"

  • seldon.io/ambassador-circuit-breakers-max-retries:<maximum number of parallel retries> : The maximum number of parallel retries allowed to the Seldon Deployment

    • Example: "seldon.io/ambassador-circuit-breakers-max-retries":"3"

A worked example for circuit breakers is provided.

To understand more about the Ambassador configuration for this see their docs on circuit breakers.

Multiple Ambassadors in the same clusterΒΆ

To avoid conflicts in a cluster with multiple ambassadors running, you can add the following annotation to your Seldon Deployment resource.

  • seldon.io/ambassador-id:<instance id>: The instance id to be added to Ambassador ambassador_id configuration

For example,

apiVersion: machinelearning.seldon.io/v1alpha2
kind: SeldonDeployment
metadata:
  name: multi-ambassadors
spec:
  annotations:
    seldon.io/ambassador-id: my_instance
  name: ambassadors-example

Note that your Ambassador instance must be configured with matching ambassador_id.

See AMBASSADOR_ID for details