Deploying 🤗 ViT on Vertex AI

This post details the deployment of Hugging Face's Vision Transformer (ViT) models on Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform. It outlines the workflow, including uploading the SavedModel to Vertex AI's model registry, creating a Vertex AI Endpoint, and deploying the model to the endpoint. It highlights the use of pre-built TensorFlow serving containers and the `google-cloud-aiplatform` Python SDK for managing the deployment lifecycle. The post also covers performing predictions, monitoring with Vertex AI, and local load testing.