The Pusher TFX Pipeline Component

The Pusher component is used to push a validated model to a deployment target during model training or re-training. Before the deployment, Pusher relies on one or more blessings from other validation components to decide whether to push the model or not.

• Evaluator blesses the model if the new trained model is "good enough" to be pushed to production.
• (Optional but recommended) InfraValidator blesses the model if the model is mechanically servable in a production environment.

A Pusher component consumes a trained model in SavedModel format, and produces the same SavedModel, along with versioning metadata.

Using the Pusher Component

A Pusher pipeline component is typically very easy to deploy and requires little customization, since all of the work is done by the Pusher TFX component. Typical code looks like this:

pusher = Pusher(
  model=trainer.outputs['model'],
  model_blessing=evaluator.outputs['blessing'],
  infra_blessing=infra_validator.outputs['blessing'],
  push_destination=tfx.proto.PushDestination(
    filesystem=tfx.proto.PushDestination.Filesystem(
        base_directory=serving_model_dir)
  )
)

Pushing a model produced from InfraValidator.

(From version 0.30.0)

InfraValidator can also produce InfraBlessing artifact containing a model with warmup, and Pusher can push it just like a Model artifact.

infra_validator = InfraValidator(
    ...,
    # make_warmup=True will produce a model with warmup requests in its
    # 'blessing' output.
    request_spec=tfx.proto.RequestSpec(..., make_warmup=True)
)

pusher = Pusher(
    # Push model from 'infra_blessing' input.
    infra_blessing=infra_validator.outputs['blessing'],
    push_destination=tfx.proto.PushDestination(...)
)

More details are available in the Pusher API reference.