Graphql-engine: Docker image for arm

[fayad]

We have built an inhouse RPi cluster for production and currently testing the Hasura docker image. But it seems an image for arm is not available yet.

It will be a great addition as the platform is popular among servers.

Thanks.

[0x777]

This is not an easy task. Also, ARM is still a Tier 2 architecture for GHC

[coco98]

Adding keywords to make this easier to find:
arm64, raspberry pi

[albertobissacco]

I wanted try hasura on my raspberry pi but I stopped when I found that I can't run the docker image.
Do you have news about this?

[kwe]

An arm docker image would be great, not just for Rasberry pi, but also for Windows arm and (shortly) MacOS arm

[joshuarobs]

Maybe it might be possible with Docker's experimental buildx feature?

https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/multi-arch/

Not sure if its similar to a write once (for one architecture), create multiple architectures kind of thing.

[MrBlenny]

How would I go about building graphql-engine on ARM, specifically arm64v8? I'm willing to do a heap of testing - from my preliminary research it looks like the GHC ARM support has improved quite a lot in the last year or so.

I found this qemu solution interesting - https://www.balena.io/blog/building-arm-containers-on-any-x86-machine-even-dockerhub/

I've gotten quite a way through an embedded computer vision project that was using hasura and running on a Jeton Xavier AGX only to find this out quite late :cry:

[hanlyjiang]

I had build a graphql-engine docker image for arm，upload to https://hub.docker.com/r/hanlyjiang/graphql-engine-base.
and build an arm image to build graphql-engine，upload to https://hub.docker.com/r/hanlyjiang/graphql-engine-builder.

[melehin]

I had build the graphql-engine v1.3.1 docker image and upload to https://hub.docker.com/r/fedormelexin/graphql-engine-arm64
Static assets for hasura console included and enabled by default!

Dockerfile to build on own Rpi4 (4GB/8GB) or Jetson Nano or other machines: https://github.com/melehin/graphql-engine-arm64

[joshuarobs]

@hanlyjiang
@melehin
It seems you guys figured out a way to build hasura for arm. If its doable, then surely the staff at hasura can make official versions of these images too?

[melehin]

@joshuarobs
Sure, but ARM is still a Tier 2 architecture for GHC and may contain platform-specific bugs or other vulnerabilities.
Thereby builded images for ARM also may contain the same.

For pet projects or development on ARM - a good alternative.
I have rpi3, rpi4 and Jetson Nano and hasura works well on them.

[shantiscript]

@joshuarobs if you could turn the mentioned solutions into official images even just for raspberry pi and Jetson nano, i think there is so much potential to use Hasura in edge, ai and IOT applications. Booth platforms have a strong and growing user base in hobby and commercial applications.I think a lot of people would be very interested in using Hasura in their projects. I for example am currently exploring the option to use it in a commercial project next year that would run on jetson or raspberry compute module as i can then use the same tooling for cloud as well as edge infrastructure

[shantiscript]

also looks like there is some good progress on ghc on arm
https://www.haskell.org/ghc/blog/20200515-ghc-on-arm.html