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Daniel Farrell

11/08/2023, 1:01 AM
Working on this PR: (Docker plugin -- use
docker
to build a container from
ImageSpec
with a defined
Dockerfile
)) https://github.com/flyteorg/flytekit/pull/1926 wanting to get some opinions on potential changes to the
ImageSpec
interface. (none implemented yet, just put the link as a reference) Basically: If you want to define a container for a task that Flyte manages/builds you currently must define an
ImageSpec
. I would like to create a new 'builder' that builds images via a
Dockerfile
, but I'm finding the current interface pretty restricted. I find the current
ImageSpec
implementation to be mainly targeted at
envD
. This is strange as
ImageSpec
as-is is in flytekit core, but is essentially useless without
flytekit-envd
installed. The current implementation also requires
flytekit-envd
to be installed on the task-node as the
EnvdImageSpecBuilder
must be instantiated at task-runtime as .build gets run at some point. I was wondering if any devs had thoughts on ways I might decouple
ImageSpec
from
envD
? Or if any thought has been put into this before? I have a few ideas, but each has tradeoffs and I don't want to restart discussions that have already been had. I will say that I would like to be able to use
Dockerfiles
with the least amount of modification possible, so it's not really ideal to add a
pip install flytekit-docker
step to every D`ockerfile` I want to use, but maybe that is unavoidable.
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Samhita Alla

11/08/2023, 7:02 AM
cc @Kevin Su