Automating AI Model Deployment with GitHub Actions and Webhooks
PythonTo automate the deployment of an AI model with GitHub Actions and webhooks using Pulumi, you'll need to set up the necessary cloud resources and configure GitHub Actions to interact with your models. The process involves provisioning resources such as a storage mechanism for the model artifacts, a compute instance or service to serve the model, and a webhook to trigger the deployment process.
For demonstration purposes, let's assume we want to use AWS as our cloud provider. The high-level steps in this process are:
- Create an S3 bucket to store AI model artifacts.
- Provision an AWS Lambda function that can serve the AI model.
- Set up API Gateway to expose the Lambda function as an HTTP endpoint.
- Use Pulumi's AWS provider to create an AWS CodeBuild project that will fetch the latest model artifacts from the S3 bucket and update the Lambda function.
- Set up a GitHub Actions workflow that triggers the AWS CodeBuild project on a new commit to the main branch.
Below is a Pulumi program in Python that provisions the aforementioned resources. This code does not include the actual GitHub Actions workflow file, which needs to be created in your GitHub repository.
import pulumi import pulumi_aws as aws # Create an S3 bucket to store AI model artifacts ai_model_bucket = aws.s3.Bucket("aiModelBucket") # Provision an AWS Lambda function to serve the AI model lambda_role = aws.iam.Role("lambdaRole", assume_role_policy=aws.iam.get_policy_document(statements=[{ "principals": [{ "type": "Service", "identifiers": ["lambda.amazonaws.com"], }], "actions": ["sts:AssumeRole"], }]).json) lambda_role_policy_attachment = aws.iam.RolePolicyAttachment("lambdaRolePolicyAttachment", role=lambda_role.name, policy_arn=aws.iam.ManagedPolicy.AWS_LAMBDA_BASIC_EXECUTION_ROLE) ai_model_lambda = aws.lambda_.Function("aiModelLambda", code=pulumi.FileArchive("./path_to_your_lambda_code"), # Replace with the path to your Lambda function code role=lambda_role.arn, handler="your_handler", # Replace with the name of the function handler runtime="python3.8") # Set up API Gateway to expose the Lambda function as an HTTP endpoint api_gateway = aws.apigatewayv2.Api("apiGateway", protocol_type="HTTP") integration = aws.apigatewayv2.Integration("integration", api_id=api_gateway.id, integration_type="AWS_PROXY", integration_uri=ai_model_lambda.invoke_arn) route = aws.apigatewayv2.Route("route", api_id=api_gateway.id, route_key="POST /models", target=integration.id.apply(lambda id: "integrations/" + id)) # Use Pulumi to create an AWS CodeBuild project to automate deployment codebuild_project = aws.codebuild.Project("codebuildProject", service_role=lambda_role.arn, # Reuse the IAM role created for Lambda artifacts={"type": "NO_ARTIFACTS"}, environment={"compute_type": "BUILD_GENERAL1_SMALL", "image": "aws/codebuild/standard:4.0", "type": "LINUX_CONTAINER"}, source={"type": "GITHUB", "location": "https://github.com/your_repo_here.git"}) # Replace with your GitHub repo URL # Output resources URLs pulumi.export("S3BucketURL", ai_model_bucket.website_endpoint) pulumi.export("LambdaFunctionName", ai_model_lambda.name) pulumi.export("ApiGatewayURL", api_gateway.api_endpoint)
Explanation of Resources:
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aws.s3.Bucket
: Provision an S3 bucket to store the AI model artifacts. Every time a new model is built, its artifacts can be uploaded here. -
aws.iam.Role
andaws.iam.RolePolicyAttachment
: Create an IAM role with the appropriate policies to allow Lambda function execution. -
aws.lambda_.Function
: Define a Lambda function that will serve the AI model. The function handler and code should be updated to reflect your specific requirements. -
aws.apigatewayv2.Api
,aws.apigatewayv2.Integration
,aws.apigatewayv2.Route
: Set up an HTTP API using AWS API Gateway to make the Lambda function available over HTTP. -
aws.codebuild.Project
: Configure a CodeBuild project that will be triggered to run a build (i.e., fetch the model from S3 and update the Lambda function) when a webhook is triggered.
Integration with GitHub Actions:
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In your GitHub repository, create a workflow file
.github/workflows/deploy_model.yml
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Use the AWS actions to configure the AWS credentials and region.
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Add a step to trigger the CodeBuild project, which will in turn update the Lambda function.
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You can use the event triggers in GitHub Actions to decide when this workflow runs (e.g., on every push to the main branch or when a new tag is created).
Next Steps:
- Replace placeholder code paths and Lambda function details with your actual code.
- Configure the necessary permissions for CodeBuild to access the S3 bucket and update the Lambda function.
- Set up the GitHub Actions workflow with the appropriate AWS access and webhook trigger to start the CodeBuild project.
Deploy the Pulumi code by running
pulumi up
. Once deployed, update your AI model artifacts in the specified S3 bucket and commit changes to your repository to automate the deployment using GitHub Actions.