Azure SDK is over 500 MB and growing on each release

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  "date": "2021-04-05T12:00:00.000Z",
  "description": "The azure SDK is ridiculously large for reasons that I have a hard time understanding. We pip install it for our CI pipelines and the vast majority of the size of our container is coming from the A…",
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  "title": "Azure SDK is over 500MB and growing on each release. · Issue #17801 · Azure/azure-sdk-for-python",
  "description": "The azure SDK is ridiculously large for reasons that I have a hard time understanding. We pip install it for our CI pipelines and the vast majority of the size of our container is coming from the A...",
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  "content": "<div>\n          <p>as another view point, azure packages add about 354mb of size to our docker images (which also support 4 other cloud providers in a fraction of that size). the current rate of package size improvements (2 in 2 years), means there is timely no visible path to correction given the number of packages in the azure ecosystem. and as service teams rev versions, these problems are likely to reoccur in the 'corrected' packages.</p>\n<p>wrt to packages we're (cncf cloud custodian) currently using</p>\n<div><pre><code>azure-mgmt-authorization\nazure-mgmt-advisor\nazure-mgmt-apimanagement\nazure-mgmt-applicationinsights\nazure-mgmt-batch\nazure-mgmt-cognitiveservices\nazure-mgmt-cosmosdb\nazure-mgmt-costmanagement \nazure-mgmt-containerinstance\nazure-mgmt-compute\nazure-mgmt-cdn \nazure-mgmt-containerregistry\nazure-mgmt-containerservice\nazure-mgmt-databricks\nazure-mgmt-datalake-store\nazure-mgmt-datafactory\nazure-mgmt-dns\nazure-mgmt-eventgrid\nazure-mgmt-eventhub\nazure-mgmt-hdinsight\nazure-mgmt-iothub\nazure-mgmt-keyvault\nazure-mgmt-managementgroups\nazure-mgmt-network\nazure-mgmt-redhatopenshift\nazure-mgmt-resourcegraph\nazure-mgmt-resource\nazure-mgmt-rdbms\nazure-mgmt-search\nazure-mgmt-sql\nazure-mgmt-storage\nazure-mgmt-subscription\nazure-mgmt-web\nazure-mgmt-logic\nazure-storage-blob\nazure-storage-queue\nazure-cosmosdb-table\napplicationinsights\nazure-functions\nazure-graphrbac\nadal\nazure-storage-file\nazure-mgmt-policyinsights\nazure-mgmt-monitor\nazure-cosmos\nazure-mgmt-redis\nazure-keyvault-secrets\nazure-keyvault-keys\nazure-keyvault-certificates\nazure-identity\nazure-keyvault\nazure-storage-file-share\nazure-mgmt-msi\nazure-mgmt-servicefabric\nazure-mgmt-trafficmanager\nazure-mgmt-frontdoor\nazure-mgmt-security\nazure-mgmt-servicebus\nazure-mgmt-appplatform\nazure-mgmt-recoveryservices \n</code></pre></div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://github.com/johanste\">@johanste</a> re dynamic gen, ide integration points can be had via other methods (typing files etc). re startup time, the runtime generation is typically cached, and lazy/amortized. most folks are aren't creating clients at import time versus runtime. the current static generation pattern also feels anti consumption, the more azure you use, the worse the problem is. and its not just package size, its an explosion on the dependency graph and supply chain validation due to the package count as well.</p>\n<p>sadly I don't see a runtime style openapi client extant, so the lift on exploring this is larger then I'd like.</p>\n      </div>",
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