Chapter 5: Installing Pachyderm on a Cloud Platform

In the previous chapter, you learned the process for installing Pachyderm locally to get started quickly and test Pachyderm on your computer.

Production use cases require additional compute resources and scalability that can be efficiently achieved using cloud platforms and managed Kubernetes platform services provided by the popular cloud vendors. Pachyderm can run on a Kubernetes cluster, irrespective of whether it is deployed manually on cloud instances or as a managed Kubernetes service. We will discuss the most popular and easy-to-configure methods on cloud providers.

This chapter walks you through the cloud-based installation of Pachyderm and explains the software requirements needed to run a Pachyderm cluster in production. This chapter will cover the installation on the following most popular cloud platforms: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service...