Pip install from git in Docker

Following on from my article about pip installing development code, I thought I'd also share the various ways of installing from a get server.

Installing from a GitLab commit-point

• You may need to have a deploy token, or username & password for the repo
• You need to have set up the setup code in the repo being installed

In the Dockerfile, install from the commit SHA code:

Adding a text-string as a file to a gzip'd file

I had reason to add a timestamp file to an archive - a nice simple file, with the time of creating as a single line, so nothing complicated..... but this is python, and there are more solutions out there than I've had hot dinners (well, maybe not - but certainly more than I've had Vindaloo curries.)

None of them worked for me.

I don't think that my archive was an in-memory "file"

This does: