diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-app.yml b/.github/workflows/python-app.yml
index 5622c76ae..97bd0a3bc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-app.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-app.yml
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip  # Upgrade pip to the latest version
+	pip install pip-tools                # run pip-compile silently to create requirements.txt in memory
+        pip-compile --quiet requirements.in -o requirements.txt
+        # command will exit with error code if there's a diff
+        git diff --exit-code requirements.txt
         if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi
     - name: Lint with flake8
       run: |
diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
index 35f31a67b..d991da918 100644
--- a/requirements.in
+++ b/requirements.in
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ scikit-learn==1.3.0
 xgboost==1.7.6
 
 # Tooling
-dvc[all]
+dvc[all]==3.61.0
 flake8
 pytest
 pytest-html
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a342ef412..03be0c1ad 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,35 +1,8 @@
-# requirements.txt from pip-tools
-dvc==3.23.0
-dvc[all]==3.23.0
-flake8==6.1.0
-numpy==1.23.5
-pandas==2.0.3
-ydata-profiling==4.9.0
-scikit-learn==1.3.0
-xgboost==1.7.6
-pytest==7.4.0
-pytest_html==4.0.0
-requests==2.32.0
-fastapi==0.115.3
-uvicorn==0.27.0
-starlette>=0.40.0,<0.42.0
-httpx==0.25.0
-pydantic>=2
-gunicorn==23.0.0
-matplotlib==3.6.2
-seaborn==0.12.2
-scipy==1.10.1
-colorama==0.4.6
-joblib==1.3.2
-# --- for safety reasons by Snyk to avoid a vulnerability
-pillow>=10.3.0
-setuptools>=78.1.1
-fonttools>=4.43.0
-zipp>=3.19.1
-=======
 #
-# This file part is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.11 via
-# pip-compile requirements.in
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.11
+# by the following command:
+#
+#    pip-compile requirements.in
 #
 adlfs==2024.12.0
     # via dvc-azure
@@ -757,4 +730,4 @@ zipp==3.23.0
     # via -r requirements.in
 
 # The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
-# setuptools   - exits because of udacity history reason
+# setuptools