Upgrade pip version

We are facing an issue when installing tfx package through pip3 from inside the container (version 9.0.3):

# pip3 install tfx
Collecting tfx
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/27/ef/07522116d0680934ade5622322af06ed55d9820c3c23a7d97b62db1438db/tfx-0.15.0-py3-none-any.whl (504kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 512kB 2.2MB/s 
Collecting tensorflow<3,>=1.15 (from tfx)
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow<3,>=1.15 (from tfx) (from versions: 0.12.1, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.1.0rc0, 1.1.0rc1, 1.1.0rc2, 1.1.0, 1.2.0rc0, 1.2.0rc1, 1.2.0rc2, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.3.0rc0, 1.3.0rc1, 1.3.0rc2, 1.3.0, 1.4.0rc0, 1.4.0rc1, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.5.0rc0, 1.5.0rc1, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.6.0rc0, 1.6.0rc1, 1.6.0, 1.7.0rc0, 1.7.0rc1, 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.8.0rc0, 1.8.0rc1, 1.8.0, 1.9.0rc0, 1.9.0rc1, 1.9.0rc2, 1.9.0, 1.10.0rc0, 1.10.0rc1, 1.10.0, 1.10.1, 1.11.0rc0, 1.11.0rc1, 1.11.0rc2, 1.11.0, 1.12.0rc0, 1.12.0rc1, 1.12.0rc2, 1.12.0, 1.12.2, 1.12.3, 1.13.0rc0, 1.13.0rc1, 1.13.0rc2, 1.13.1, 1.13.2, 1.14.0rc0, 1.14.0rc1, 1.14.0, 2.0.0a0, 2.0.0b0, 2.0.0b1)
No matching distribution found for tensorflow<3,>=1.15 (from tfx)
You are using pip version 9.0.3, however version 19.3.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

The same installation succeeds after upgrading pip through pip3 install --upgrade pip.

Is there a plan to have the pip version upgraded?

There was https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-runtime/pull/201 which downgraded pip from 18.0 to 9.0.3, referencing https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5240. A related issue https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5599 is still open but it says that the problems are not with pip itself but due to incorrect use of pip. Perhaps they could be fixed or worked around in the pip installation in the Python runtime image?

@dlorenc @liyanhui1228

[Dallas62]

Hi @donmccasland Do you have an update on this ? I face the same case as @eddie-scio. Or do you have any workaround ?

[abitrolly]

➜  ~ podman run -it gcr.io/google-appengine/python pip3 --version
pip 21.1.3 from /opt/python3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip (python 3.7)

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