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Create docker image on Apple Silicon M1 Mac

Lakhan Samani on August 04, 2021

My biggest pain while moving to Apple Silicon M1 chip mac book was to create a docker build that would work on all the machines. It took some time ...
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Pavan Belagatti

Man, you saved so much time. Thanks

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Mushi123

what about running images, on mac m1, that were built on linux/amd64? Specifically, I set up Github Actions so my docker builds are happening on the Github server, which I am guessing are doing linux/amd64 builds. When I pull the image and try to run it, it runs into this error:
The requested image's platform (linux/amd64) does not match the detected host platform (linux/arm64/v8) and no specific platform was requested

Any suggestions?

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Lakhan Samani

Haven't seen any such issues until your docker image uses some native api's
If its public image can you share Docker file + image name. I can take look into it.

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Brooks DuBois

It's happening with Micronaut, any ideas are appreciated.

try just getting micronaut and building a simple web app to serve you an index.html, then when you try and do dockerBuild from gradle you'll see the v8 issue.

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Angel Gutierrez

I can confirm, any image created in an M1 Mac without the —platform flag will not work in a GKE cluster…

That’s the reason why I found this post, lol.

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santhoshshivanna

I can confirm, any image created in an M1 Mac without the platform flag will not work in a ECS cluster.

That's the reason why I found this post, lol. copied from previous comment :D

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Kevin Lien

I'm here thanks to GKE. :) Appreciate the short yet lifesaving post!

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Tutorialwork

For me it tooks around 5 minutes on a M1 Mac Mini to build a amd64 Docker image. Does anybody has similar experience or is the problem my Dockerfile?

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Santiago Barchetta

Dude! This was so helpfull! 2 days losts trying to solve this issue and the solution was so simple!

I can confirm, this solved me issues building and deploying in GCP.

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Lakhan Samani

Thanks :-)

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paulwon

You saved my day. Thank you!