Multi-Arch Docker Images

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Although the promise of Docker is the elimination of differences when moving software between environments, you’ll still face the problem that you can’t cross platform boundaries, i.e. you can’t run a Docker image built for x86_64 on a arm board such as the Raspberry Pi. This means that if you want to support multiple architectures, you typically end up tagging images with their arch (e.g. myimage-arm and myimage-x86_64). However, it turns out that the Docker image format already supports multi-platform images (or more accurately, “manifests”),…

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