Deploying Distributed Tensorflow on Kubernetes Clusters

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Deploying distributed TensorFlow on a Kubernetes cluster is a process that involves creating a Kubernetes cluster and then configuring it to support a distributed TensorFlow workload.

Here's how you can accomplish this using Pulumi:

1. **Setting up a Kubernetes cluster**: This is the underlying platform for your distributed TensorFlow workloads. You can use any of the cloud providers that offer Kubernetes managed services such as AWS EKS, Azure AKS, Google Cloud GKE, or others. These services handle much of the necessary cluster setup and maintenance for you.

2. **Configuring the cluster for distributed TensorFlow**: Once the cluster is up and running, you'll need to set up the appropriate networking, storage, and compute resources. This can involve creating Kubernetes namespaces, persistent volumes for data storage, and service accounts for role-based access control.

3. **Deploying TensorFlow**: With the cluster configured, you can deploy TensorFlow in a distributed manner. You can run TensorFlow in Docker containers and then deploy these using Kubernetes Deployments and Services. You'll need to configure these resources to communicate with each other and scale as required.

Below is a Pulumi program written in Python which sets up a Kubernetes cluster on AWS using their Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This example creates an EKS cluster and a default node pool. After setting up the cluster, you would typically proceed to deploy TensorFlow using Kubernetes Deployments and Services, which is not covered in this example.

In this Python program, we are using `pulumi_eks` which provides a Pulumi package for provisioning EKS clusters in a very simple and declarative manner.

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_eks as eks

# This example deploys an EKS cluster with the default settings:
# - Two t2.medium nodes
# - Configuration from the default VPC and subnets configurations for EKS
# - All the necessary roles and role bindings for the cluster to operate
# - Default StorageClass configurations

# First, we'll create an EKS cluster.
cluster = eks.Cluster('my-cluster')

# The `eks.Cluster` resource has now created an EKS cluster using the default settings,
# which you can then configure further or use as-is. You would configure this further to deploy distributed TensorFlow workloads.
# For instance, you would typically set up TensorFlow-specific deployments at this point.

# Export the cluster's kubeconfig and name.
pulumi.export('kubeconfig', cluster.kubeconfig)
pulumi.export('cluster_name', cluster.eks_cluster.name)
```

To deploy TensorFlow, you would need to follow these general steps (not included in the Pulumi program above):

1. Define a `Deployment` that specifies your TensorFlow Docker image and the distribution strategy.
2. Create `Services` to expose TensorFlow workers, parameter servers, and other components that need to communicate.
3. Configure `PersistentVolumes` and `PersistentVolumeClaims` if your workloads need to store data.
4. Optionally, set up `Ingress` or `LoadBalancers` to expose your TensorFlow training jobs outside of the cluster.
5. Define `ResourceQuotas` and `LimitRanges` to manage compute resource allocation for your workloads.
6. Deploy these resources to the cluster using Pulumi by defining corresponding Pulumi `Resource` objects, similar to the eks.Cluster seen above.

Please note, the above Pulumi program assumes that you've already configured Pulumi with the necessary AWS credentials and have the AWS and EKS Pulumi providers installed. The Pulumi program will provision an EKS cluster that can be further configured for distributed TensorFlow workloads.