[BEAM-13283] Skip apache beam dependency installation from requirements.txt file

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: P1
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: Missing
• Component/s: dependencies
• Assignee: Anand Inguva
• Reporter: Anand Inguva
• Created: 18/Nov/21 09:46
• Updated: 13/Jan/22 21:49
• Resolved: 09/Dec/21 01:30

Description

When user provides requirements.txt which includes apache_beam to launch a worker, the downloading of packages from the source takes a long time and eventually fails. 

So the apache-beam dependency is excluded from requirements cache population because we stage the SDK separately.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #16014