adding the functionality to clearml-task sounds very attractive!

Hmm, what do you think?
parser.add_argument('--configuration', type=str, default=None, help='Specify local configuration file' ) parser.add_argument('--configuration-name', type=str, default=None, help='configuration section name' ) ... with open(args.configuration, 'rt') as f: create_populate.task.set_configuration_object(args.name, config_text=f.read())Add here:
https://github.com/allegroai/clearml/blob/master/clearml/cli/task/main.py
Should work, feel free to PR once you verify 🙂

Feel free to change the argument names