Your data science team has requested a system that supports scheduled model retraining, Docker containers,...

Vertex AI Pipelines and AI Platform Prediction are the platform components that best suit the requirements of the data science team. Vertex AI Pipelines is a service that allows you to orchestrate and automate your machine learning workflows using pipelines. Pipelines are portable and scalable ML workflows that are based on containers. You can use Vertex AI Pipelines to schedule model retraining, use custom containers, and integrate with other Google Cloud services. AI Platform Prediction is a service that allows you to host your trained models and serve online predictions. You can use AI Platform Prediction to deploy models trained on Vertex AI or elsewhere, and benefit from features such as autoscaling, monitoring, logging, and explainability.  References:

Vertex AI Pipelines

AI Platform Prediction