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is there a way to give docker tasks a name?

Hey <@U01SBD76XRV>, I believe these tasks take **kwargs arguments that take in whatever argument the base Task class has. You can try `CreateContainer(name="Task name")`

it does work at that level, would be nice if `__call__` also took name, tho.

e.g. `container_task = ContainerTask(name="sup")` works, however `container_task(name="sup")` does not.

i can probs just subclass or something and itll do what i want, just wanted to check if i was missing anything!

This is because `name` is a build time thing, whereas `container_task(name="sup")` would be a runtime thing. Naming tasks has to be a build time operation because it’s part of the metadata in constructing the DAG.

So the `name` needs to be passed during `init`