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If the docker task you want to configure doesn't support inputs...I would just do the operation you are doing in your task in a provider and use it.

You are just pushing your luck by configuring extras in a tasks that are read by an extension

If the docker tasks has the inputs, and parsing the files is expensive you can use your task, write some file with the outputs and use those files as inputs (creating a dependency between the tasks)