diff --git a/src/python-mssql/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/src/python-mssql/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
index 5bba8e7..4fdbe88 100644
--- a/src/python-mssql/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
+++ b/src/python-mssql/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 	// "forwardPorts": [8000],
 
 	// Use 'postCreateCommand' to run commands after the container is created.
-	"postCreateCommand": "echo '${templateOption:pythonImageVariant}' > /tmp/python-mssql.txt && pip3 install --upgrade pip && pip3 install -U pytest && pip3 install --no-cache-dir -r src/requirements.txt && bash .devcontainer/mssql/postCreateCommand.sh 'P@ssw0rd' './bin/Debug/' './.devcontainer/mssql/'",
+	"postCreateCommand": "echo '${templateOption:pythonImageVariant}' > /tmp/python-mssql.txt && pip3 install --upgrade pip && pip3 install -U pytest && pip3 install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt && bash .devcontainer/mssql/postCreateCommand.sh 'P@ssw0rd' './bin/Debug/' './.devcontainer/mssql/'",
 
 	// Comment out to connect as root instead. More info: https://aka.ms/vscode-remote/containers/non-root.
 	"remoteUser": "vscode",
diff --git a/src/python-mssql/.devcontainer/requirements.txt b/src/python-mssql/.devcontainer/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bebca58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/python-mssql/.devcontainer/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+pytest-cov==4.1.0
+pytest-dotenv==0.5.2
+python-decouple==3.8
+ecs-logging==2.0.2
+pyodbc==4.0.39
diff --git a/src/requirements.txt b/src/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a9db5e..0000000
--- a/src/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-azure-storage-blob==12.16.0
-azure-identity==1.12.0
-requests==2.31.0
-urllib3==2.0.3
-fastapi==0.99.1
-httpx==0.24.1
-uvicorn[standard]==0.22.0
-gunicorn==20.1.0
-pytest-cov==4.1.0
-pytest-dotenv==0.5.2
-python-multipart==0.0.6
-prometheus-fastapi-instrumentator==6.0.0
-prometheus_client==0.17.0
-fastapi-health==0.4.0
-python-decouple==3.8
-ecs-logging==2.0.2
-opencv-contrib-python==4.7.0.72
-azure-ai-formrecognizer==3.3.0b1
-pydantic<=2.0
-parameterized==0.9.0
-networkx==2.5.1
-shapely==2.0.1
-tqdm==4.65.0
-matplotlib==3.7.2
-pyodbc==4.0.39
-pdf2image
-pypdfium2
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