Handling Pipelines in Data Science with Jenkins

Handling Pipelines in Data Science with Jenkins 

Using Jenkins for Data Science Pipelines

Jenkins is a popular open-source automation server that supports Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD). It is highly customizable and can automate various stages of a data science pipeline, including data extraction, transformation, model training, and deployment.

Create a Git repository

✔ Store:

• Dataset

• Python scripts

• ML models

• Jenkinsfile

Common Pipeline Stages:

1. Data Extraction

2. Data Cleaning & Transformation

3. Feature Engineering

4. Model Training

5. Model Evaluation

6. Model Deployment
   
   
   

Sample Jenkins Pipeline Flow

Code Commit → Jenkins Trigger → Data Processing → Model Training → Evaluation → Deployment → Monitoring




In this guide, we will explore the step-by-step pipeline of data science using Jenkins, understand how each stage works, and see how Jenkins simplifies the end-to-end machine learning workflow.

Steps to Set Up a Data Science Pipeline in Jenkins

1.  Install and Configure Jenkins: 

   • Download and install Jenkins from the official website.

   • Install necessary plugins like Git, Docker, and Python to support your pipeline.
     
     

2. Create a Jenkins Job:
   

   • Define the pipeline stages using a Jenkinsfile.

3.  Example Jenkinsfile
   
   

   1. • pipeline {
            agent any
            stages {
                stage('Clone Repository') {
                    steps {
                        git 'https://github.com/your-repo.git'
                    }
                }
                stage('Data Preprocessing') {
                    steps {
                        sh 'python preprocess.py'
                    }
                }
                stage('Model Training') {
                    steps {
                        sh 'python train.py'
                    }
                }
                stage('Deployment') {
                    steps {
                        sh 'python deploy.py'
                    }
                }
            }
        }

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4. Schedule and Monitor Jobs:
   

   Use Jenkins’ built-in scheduling and logging features to automate and monitor your pipeline. Check out below article for scheduling job
   
   The configuration of the schedule build plugin is very simple. There are only two parameters on the Jenkins system configuration page.

The default time which is set when a user wants to schedule a build may be configured and time zone used by the plugin, which might differ from the system time zone.check out Spark Tutorial or Hadoop Tutorial  for learning end to end.

Reference link : https://plugins.jenkins.io/schedule-build/

In modern data-driven applications, building and deploying machine learning models manually is time-consuming and error-prone. To overcome this challenge, Jenkins pipelines are widely used to automate the complete data science workflow, from data extraction to model deployment.

Jenkins is a powerful open-source automation server that supports Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD). When integrated with data science projects, Jenkins helps automate repetitive tasks such as data preprocessing, model training, testing, validation, and deployment. This ensures faster experimentation, consistent results, and reliable production deployments.

A Data Science pipeline in Jenkins consists of well-defined stages such as data collection, transformation, model training, evaluation, and deployment. Each stage is executed automatically using a Jenkinsfile, making the entire process scalable and easy to maintain.

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