RoughTiger69

Apparently,

, doesn’t populate that dict with

any keys that don’t already exist in it

.

Are you saying new entries are not added to the Dict even if they are on the Task (i.e. only entries that already exist on the dict are populated ?
But you already have all the entries defined here:
https://github.com/allegroai/clearml/blob/721569bb77d89d89e5b4f32a0ed98311c4574650/examples/services/aws-autoscaler/aws_autoscaler.py#L22

Since all this is happening around task initialization on the border between local and remote, it was a terrible issue to debug.

Notice that this line updates back on the Task the actual full configuration that is used (this is one way, meaning the code will always update the Task, never the other way around)