Well I think most of the time is took by the setup of the venv installing the packages defined in the imports in the pipeline component which is normal and some of those package have a wheel that takes a long time to build but most of those packages where already included on the Docker image I provided and I get that message in my logs:

:: Python virtual environment cache is disabled. To accelerate spin-up time setagent.venvs_cache.path=~/.clearml/venvs-cache:::