Podman: Provide arm64 multiarch images on quay.io

[everflux]

/kind feature

Description

Currently only amd64 images are available for podman and buildah on
quay.io/podman/stable
This prevents usage on ARM64 architectures.
Please provide multi-arch images and according manifests.

[rhatdan]

@TomSweeneyRedHat PTAL

[rhatdan]

@everflux Any help you could provide, IE Opening a PR, would help move this along.

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[rhatdan]

@TomSweeneyRedHat Any chance to look at this? @nalind could you help with this?

[MaxPeal]

+1

[rhatdan]

@TomSweeneyRedHat Could you take a look?

[TomSweeneyRedHat]

I'm happy to look, but I've not a clue on where to start. I'll have to dig deeply into Google. Pointers gratefully accepted.

[rhatdan]

I was hoping @cevich could jump in an offer up a way to do this on CIRRUS. Basically we need an arm64 vm with buildah/go ... installed, and have it build the images. Once we have images built for different arches, we need something to reassemble them into a manifest, I believe.

[rhatdan]

Perhaps @nalind has some ideas.

[cevich]

I'm happy to advise, but there are no ready-to-go options here. Non-commodity hardware is a big ask for every cloud-provider. I'm told even the IBM cloud tightly controls ppc64 :confounded: We're really beholden to the cloud-providers here if we want something automated and public.

I did open up:

https://github.com/containers/automation_images/pull/21

That image has nested-virt. enabled. My main concern is performance; however, It's worth investigating further as this may actually be the most-viable option. Test/play with qemu-kvm using hack/get_ci_vm fedora-c4566280017543168 should work as per usual, though you will need to install qemu-kvm. Ref: https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/ARM

The only other idea I have is to work with cirrus-support to get a job running in AWS, which offers ARM VMs (when special-magic incantations are uttered). This is a long/hard road, as I have almost zero knowledge of AWS nor do we have any VM-image build setup.

[rhatdan]

@nalind is this something you could attempt with your presentation from Devconf.cz?

[nalind]

I believe so. There are some things ahead of it in my to-do list, though.

[rhatdan]

I have been told that the SUSE build servers might be a possibility for this?

[nalind]

If I'm reading https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_supported_build_targets#Supported_processor_platforms right, it'd be broader than what we have now.

[ppouliot]

Hey Everyone,

If you are looking for ARM64 vm resources for the project. Feel free to send a request here. OpenStack API access can be provided.

https://osuosl.org/services/aarch64/request_hosting/

[woodrad]

I don't know enough to meaningfully contribute to this issue, but lacking a rootless CNI image on quay.io makes it difficult to use rootless podman on popular aarch64 devices like the Raspberry Pi. I am willing to write howto documentation, for what it's worth.

[rhatdan]

I have opened a PR on Buildah to make building these images via emulation a lot easier.

https://github.com/containers/buildah/pull/2869