Make Images support arm64 natively for development on M1 Macs

[aliz7]

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature request

SUMMARY

Hi,

I'm using a MacBook Pro 2021 with M1 Pro ARM CPU. Unfortunately, the custom devilbox docker images do not support arm64 natively whereas all the official httpd, php, mariadb etc. images already support arm64 natively.

Goal

Make Images support arm64 natively for development on M1 Macs

[cytopia]

Make amd64 images work on arm64

You can use an override file to explicitly emulate based on amd64: #878 (comment)

Current research

I was looking into building ARM images. This however seems to be rather problematic. I have currently tested it with a base image (PHP 8.2) in this PR: devilbox/docker-php-fpm-8.2#2

• AMD64 image builds in about 9 minutes (as it did in single run before)
• ARM64 image builds in about 105 minutes (more than factor 11 longer)

Timewise it would all be do-able for the used Docker images for Devilbox, however, when looking at the actual PHP images, the fastest pipeline is 1 hour. When doing ARM64 images the pipeline will most likely also be (more than) 11 times slower, which would result into something like at least 11 hours per build.

As far as I've read, GitHub actions allows a maximum of 6 hours per job, so that would be currently impossible.

Additionally, as this is only a non-commercial project I'm doing in my spare-time and migrating, testing and fixing tens of docker images would take months and lots of energey, it is something which I'm unable take. I will leave this to the community.

If somebody wants to step in and take action and is also able to solve the long-running pipelines, then let me know and we can work something out.

TL;DR

• technical complications
• time/resource constraints

I will pin this issue for better visibility

CC: @frumbert @Lenitr @mhodge13 @boumanb

[cytopia]

Update

Docker images that now come with ARM64 support:

• https://github.com/devilbox/docker-php-fpm-5.3 (base image only)
• https://github.com/devilbox/docker-php-fpm-8.0 (base image only)
• https://github.com/devilbox/docker-php-fpm-8.1 (base image only)
• https://github.com/devilbox/docker-php-fpm-8.2 (base image only)
• https://github.com/devilbox/docker-apache-2.2
• https://github.com/devilbox/docker-apache-2.4
• https://github.com/devilbox/docker-nginx-stable
• https://github.com/devilbox/docker-nginx-mainline
• https://github.com/devilbox/docker-mysql
• https://github.com/cytopia/docker-bind

Images that are currently lacking ARM64 support:

• https://github.com/devilbox/docker-php-fpm (See here for issues: Make Images support arm64 natively for development on M1 Macs #855 (comment))

[cytopia]

Update

I have added two more required base images to support arm64 on Debian Jessie:

• https://github.com/devilbox/docker-php-fpm-5.4 (base image only)
• https://github.com/devilbox/docker-php-fpm-5.5 (base image only)

[joeke]

@cytopia Not sure if I understand correctly, but to be able to use this on an M1 Mac I can only use one of the PHP base images? So in my docker-compose I cannot use for example devilbox/php-fpm:${PHP_SERVER}-work-0.136 but can only use the base PHP image (i.e. devilbox/php-fpm-8.0) but then I'd have to load php modules etc. manually?

[cytopia]

@cytopia Not sure if I understand correctly, but to be able to use this on an M1 Mac I can only use one of the PHP base images?

@joeke no, the base images cannot be used for the Devilbox. They are however a requirement to eventually build the Devilbox images.

[cytopia]

Update

There is currently a WIP PR to add arm64 images for all PHP versions (except for PHP-5.2): devilbox/docker-php-fpm#237

Pipelines to build, test and deploy takes ages, which makes debugging very time-costy. Might take hours, days or weeks, depending on how smooth everything works and how many errors will be encountered.