My team defines our dependencies in a Docker container when working with Metaflow. The

python -m pip install requests -qqq && python -m pip install awscli boto3 -qqq

command in the AWS Batch command is causing a transitive dependency to drift that's causing failures. Is there any guidance from the Outerbounds team on mitigating these types of failures?

Do those images have these packages already installed?

It does. Amazing! Thank you so much for the quick response.

if you add

@environment(vars={"METAFLOW_SKIP_INSTALL_DEPENDENCIES": 1})

- that should do the trick. we can also make it a config variable.

Should I see

if [ -z $METAFLOW_SKIP_INSTALL_DEPENDENCIES ];

in the Docker command?

correct - what version of metaflow are you on?

2.11.5

that's a really old version - likely it doesn't have support for

METAFLOW_SKIP_INSTALL_DEPENDENCIES

- can you upgrade to the latest outerbounds?

Yeah, I've been meaning to upgrade anyways. This is a good forcing function. 🙂