Ray Serve is a framework for deploying and serving machine learning and large language model (LLM) inference workloads. It is designed to be scalable, support complex multi-model workflows, and efficiently utilize costly resources such as GPUs. The Phi-3 model released by Microsoft is a capable LLM model that has been optimized for use with CPUs and low memory environments.

Learning how to use Ray Serve to deploy a large language model will benefit anyone working with machine learning models and looking to deploy them in a production environment.

In this hands-on lab, you will use a development environment to implement a Ray Serve deployment, and you will run your deployment on a virtual machine.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to:

• Implement a Ray Serve deployment that allows you to interact with a large language model
• Test your deployment on a virtual machine
• Deploy your Ray Serve deployment to a Ray cluster

Intended audience

• Anyone looking to learn about deploying machine learning models
• Cloud Architects
• Data Engineers
• DevOps Engineers
• Machine Learning Engineers
• Software Engineers

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

• Large Language Models
• The Python programming language

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:

• Introduction To Large Language Models
• Python for Beginners