Train and deploy AI models with GitLab and Google Cloud's Vertex AI

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This post details a tutorial on how to use GitLab and Google Cloud's Vertex AI to deploy an AI model for credit card fraud detection. It outlines the solution architecture, including data preprocessing with SMOTE, model training with RandomForestClassifier, and model deployment to Vertex AI via GitLab CI/CD. The post provides a step-by-step walkthrough covering GitLab and Google Cloud connection, data upload to Vertex AI, CI/CD pipeline creation (test, train, deploy stages), model training script, model deployment script, and prediction testing. It highlights the use of GitLab's DevSecOps platform to orchestrate ModelOps workloads.