Pip install package from private github repo in google cloud appengine

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I am using google cloud appengine and deploying with gcloud app deploy and a standard app.yaml file. My requirements.txt file has one private package that is fetched from github (git+ssh://git@github.com/...git). This install works locally, but when I run the deploy I get 

Host key verification failed.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

This suggests there is no ssh key when installing. Reading docs (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python3/specifying-dependencies) it appears that this just isn't an option??? 

Dependencies are installed in a Cloud Build environment that does not provide access to SSH keys. Packages hosted on repositories that require SSH-based authentication must be copied into your project directory and uploaded alongside your project's code using the pip package manager.

To me this seems severely not-optimal - the whole point of factoring out code into a package was to be able to avoid duplication in repos. Now, if I want to use appengine, you're telling me this not possible?

Is there really no workaround?

gcloud pip google-cloud-platform google-app-engine python
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user_6092900

I'm going through the same issue, deploying on gcloud a python project that contains in its requirements.txt some private repositories. As @DazWilkin wrote already, there's no way to deploy it like you do normally.

One option would be to create a docker image of the whole project and its dependencies, save it into the gcloud docker registry and then pull it into the App Engine instance.

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