AnandInguva commented on a change in pull request #16938:
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/16938#discussion_r822859083



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@@ -123,3 +136,19 @@ If your pipeline uses non-Python packages (e.g. packages 
that require installati
         --setup_file /path/to/setup.py
 
 **Note:** Because custom commands execute after the dependencies for your 
workflow are installed (by `pip`), you should omit the PyPI package dependency 
from the pipeline's `requirements.txt` file and from the `install_requires` 
parameter in the `setuptools.setup()` call of your `setup.py` file.
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+## Pre-building SDK container image
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+In the pre-building step, we install pipeline dependencies on the container 
image prior to the job submission. This would speed up the pipeline execution.\
+To use pre-building the dependencies from `requirements.txt` on the container 
image. Follow the steps below.
+1. Provide the container engine. We support `docker` and 
`cloud_build`(requires a GCP project with Cloud Build API enabled).
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+       --prebuild_sdk_container_enginer <execution_environment>
+2. To pass a base image for pre-building dependencies, enable this flag. If 
not, apache beam's base image would be used.

Review comment:
       As @y1chi pointed out, it may not work if the user doesn't follow apache 
beam's contract. But we do instruct them to follow the contract in some way.
   
   So, I assume we can introduce this section as part of the instruction? 




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