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[Experimental] Use uv over pip in Python Dockerfiles #38302

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16 changes: 8 additions & 8 deletions sdks/python/container/Dockerfile
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Expand Up @@ -47,11 +47,11 @@ RUN \
&& \
rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \

pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel && \
pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel uv && \

# Install required packages for Beam Python SDK and common dependencies used by users.
# use --no-deps to ensure the list includes all transitive dependencies.
pip install --no-deps -r /tmp/base_image_requirements.txt --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu && \
uv pip install --no-cache --no-deps -r /tmp/base_image_requirements.txt --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu --system --index-strategy "unsafe-best-match" && \
rm -rf /tmp/base_image_requirements.txt && \
python -c "import nltk; nltk.download('stopwords')" && \
rm /root/nltk_data/corpora/stopwords.zip && \
Expand All @@ -75,24 +75,24 @@ RUN \

# Install Apache Beam SDK. Use --no-deps and pip check to verify that all
# necessary dependencies are specified in base_image_requirements.txt.
pip install --no-deps -v /opt/apache/beam/tars/apache-beam.tar.gz[gcp] && \
pip check || (echo "Container does not include required Beam dependencies or has conflicting dependencies. If Beam dependencies have changed, you need to regenerate base_image_requirements.txt files. See: https://s.apache.org/beam-python-requirements-generate" && exit 1) && \
uv pip install --no-cache --no-deps -v /opt/apache/beam/tars/apache-beam.tar.gz[gcp] --system && \
uv pip check --system || (echo "Container does not include required Beam dependencies or has conflicting dependencies. If Beam dependencies have changed, you need to regenerate base_image_requirements.txt files. See: https://s.apache.org/beam-python-requirements-generate" && exit 1) && \

# Log complete list of what exact packages and versions are installed.
pip freeze --all && \
uv pip freeze --system && \

# Remove pip cache.
rm -rf /root/.cache/pip && \

# Update ensurepip to use most recent versions of setuptools and pip. This avoids some vulnerabilities which won't be fixed on older versions of python.
pip install upgrade_ensurepip; \
uv pip install --no-cache upgrade_ensurepip --system; \
python3 -m upgrade_ensurepip; \
# setuptools is not bundled with ensurepip in Python 3.12+
if [ "${py_version}" = "3.10" ] || [ "${py_version}" = "3.11" ]; then \
find /usr/local/lib/python${py_version}/ensurepip/_bundled/setuptools-* -type f ! -name $(basename $(ls -v /usr/local/lib/python${py_version}/ensurepip/_bundled/setuptools-*-py3-none-any.whl | tail -n 1)) -delete; \
fi; \
find /usr/local/lib/python${py_version}/ensurepip/_bundled/pip-* -type f ! -name $(basename $(ls -v /usr/local/lib/python${py_version}/ensurepip/_bundled/pip-*-py3-none-any.whl | tail -n 1)) -delete; \
pip uninstall upgrade_ensurepip -y; \
uv pip uninstall upgrade_ensurepip --system; \
python3 -m ensurepip;

ENTRYPOINT ["/opt/apache/beam/boot"]
Expand All @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ COPY target/go-licenses/* /opt/apache/beam/third_party_licenses/golang/

COPY target/license_scripts /tmp/license_scripts/
RUN if [ "$pull_licenses" = "true" ] ; then \
pip install 'pip-licenses<6' pyyaml tenacity && \
uv pip install --no-cache 'pip-licenses<6' pyyaml tenacity --system && \
python /tmp/license_scripts/pull_licenses_py.py ; \
fi

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