Unable to build/deploy on ARM64/minikube

 - deployment/adservice: container server terminated with exit code 1
    - pod/adservice-5b65c5ff6-zzfkl: container server terminated with exit code 1
      > [adservice-5b65c5ff6-zzfkl server] Error occurred during initialization of VM
      > [adservice-5b65c5ff6-zzfkl server] Could not find agent library /opt/cprof/profiler_java_agent.so in absolute path, with error: /opt/cprof/profiler_java_agent.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (Possible cause: can't load AMD 64-bit .so on a AARCH64-bit platform)
 - deployment/adservice failed. Error: container server terminated with exit code 1.

[bourgeoisor]

Not fully supported yet, but note that you can alternatively use docker buildx from your ARM machine to build amd64 images: https://docs.docker.com/buildx/working-with-buildx/#build-multi-platform-images

We’re currently investigating the use of ARM chips by developers to build our sample applications.

[NimJay]

tl;dr - We will not be (consciously) supporting the deployment of our microservice sample images on ARM anytime soon. I say “consciously” because you might still be able to build the Docker images locally (and target ARM) and get them to deploy on ARM machines.

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Hi @zwan2 and @jxlwqq! Thank you for raising this issue! 😁

We’ve actually been talking about ARM support a lot recently. This issue is becoming a growing concern — especially given the popularity of the M1 chip.

Currently, the Docker images (for each microservice) that we host (e.g., gcr.io/google-samples/microservices-demo/checkoutservice:v0.3.1) use AMD64 architecture.

> docker image inspect gcr.io/google-samples/microservices-demo/checkoutservice:v0.3.1 | grep Arch
"Architecture": "amd64",

And, unfortunately, we do not intend to create sample images that use ARM architecture anytime soon — mainly because Google Kubernetes Engine does not currently support ARM-based image deployments.

@zwan2 In your Kubernetes deployments, are you using the images hosted at gcr.io/google-samples/microservices-demo/...? If so, have you tried building the images locally (and targeting ARM) and using those locally-built Docker images in minikube? I can’t guarantee that this works (because I am not sure if the base images used in each of microservices’ Dockerfiles support ARM). But it’s worth trying. 😃