@Marvin how can I use EXTRA_PIP_PACKAGES in my prefect.yaml file for installing different packages in my deployment? Give me an example.

It seems that the information available does not directly answer your query on how to use

EXTRA_PIP_PACKAGES

in the

prefect.yaml

file for Prefect 2.x deployments. I will now search Prefect's GitHub repository to find any related discussions or example usage in issues. Please hold on a moment while I perform this search. It appears that the search did not return any direct results showing how to use

EXTRA_PIP_PACKAGES

in a

prefect.yaml

file for Prefect 2.x deployments. I wasn't able to find a clear example or documentation that matches exactly what you're looking for. However, in the context of Docker containers and custom Python environments,

EXTRA_PIP_PACKAGES

is typically an environment variable used to specify additional pip packages to be installed when building a Docker image or setting up an environment. Since I was not able to find specific documentation on

EXTRA_PIP_PACKAGES

in the

prefect.yaml

file, I suggest consulting the latest Prefect documentation for more details, or visiting the Prefect community discourse or slack to ask for help from the Prefect Community. Would you like me to try to assist you further with this or could I help you with something else?

@Rubab Zahra the

EXTRA_PIP_PACKAGES

command needs to go under infrastructure overrides. I’m not sure how that works in the YAML setup as we use the Python API directly for deployments. But wherever infrastructure overrides live, that’s where it should go. Depending on what your environment is the entrypoint file may not run. If it doesn’t run, then the

EXTRA_PIP_PACKAGES

flag won’t get recognized. On AWS we pass this argument to our ECS containers to force replicate the

EXTRA_PIP_PACKAGES

behavior of Prefect’s entrypoint file:

"command": [
        "bash",
        "-c",
        'if [ ! -z "$EXTRA_PIP_PACKAGES" ]; then pip install --force-reinstall $EXTRA_PIP_PACKAGES; fi && python -m prefect.engine',
    ],