ML Systems Doubts

I’ve been working on a project of Machine Learning where I am using Docker to containerise my applications (frontend and backend). But I’m facing difficulties while using ML models in the containers.

Question

How to train the model and also use MLFlow for model monitoring?
I don’t know how to integrate the ML models in the containers.
1. Should I deploy my models in cloud and from there I can fetch the models for prediction?
2. Should I add the models into the container from which I can easily make prediction?

MLFlow

In my project Project on GitHub yt-watch-history, I am using MLFlow (but not using it also) means I have written code to train the model with MLFlow but I can also train without it (and I always use this only).

Question

Should I train the model using MLFLow or just do the model monitoring while Hyper-parameter Tuning?

Containers

What I am doing right now?

I am training the models before starting the container and after, training the models and starting I do predictions using those models by mounting the directories (where models are stored).

What should I have to do?

I can train the model locally and deploy it on the cloud and then fetch and store* the model while prediction.
I can containerise the model too with the codes which makes it easy to use and locate. But comes with many disadvantages like scalability, container’s size, model availability/redundancy and more.

Databases

I have been using this as optional step because I never use database model training purpose. I prefer to fetch the data from database and store them into local files and then use them for all the steps.

How should I use them for model training?

Should I always fetch data from databases for training?
Should I fetch the data once and do all the required steps like data preprocessing, data transformation, features selection, model training and all? I think this is a better approach.