Feat: support arm64 architecture in development tooling#4545
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Replace hardcoded linux-amd64 / x86_64 download URLs in
build/build-image, build/e2e-image, and the go/restapi/rust SDK
images with arch-detected versions using dpkg --print-architecture.
For rustup-init, map dpkg arch to rustup's triple (amd64 ->
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, arm64 -> aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu).
Switch Hugo from the legacy Linux-64bit archive to the consistent
linux-${ARCH} naming.
Disable CGO when installing golangci-lint so the build no longer
depends on the gold linker, which is deprecated and not installed
in debian:trixie. Upstream golangci-lint binaries are also built
without CGO.
Replace the global --platform linux/x86_64 forcing on ARM hosts
with an explicit --platform linux/amd64 on each amd64 production
image build target (controller, extensions, sdk-server, ping,
allocator, processor, and their debug variants), mirroring the
existing explicit --platform linux/arm64 used for arm64 builds.
This lets the build-image and other dev tooling run natively on
Apple Silicon, Ampere, and AWS Graviton hosts.
Closes agones-dev#4533
Signed-off-by: Nick Nikolakakis <nonicked@protonmail.com>
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What type of PR is this?
/kind feature
What this PR does / Why we need it:
Makes the development tooling containers natively runnable on ARM64 (Apple Silicon, Ampere, AWS Graviton). Previously, ARM hosts were forced to run the build container under x86_64 emulation due to:
linux-amd64/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnudownload URLs in 6 Dockerfiles (build-image, e2e-image, and the go/restapi/rust SDK images).--platform linux/x86_64forcing block inbuild/Makefilethat activated wheneveruname -preturnedarm.golangci-lintinstall: Go on linux/arm64 forces-fuse-ld=gold, butbinutils-goldwas deprecated and isn't installed indebian:trixie. amd64 doesn't hit this because Go doesn't add the gold flag there.Changes:
Replace hardcoded download URLs with arch-detected versions using
dpkg --print-architecturein all 6 Dockerfiles. The rust SDK image maps that to rustup'saarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnutriple via a smallcasestatement. Hugo switches from the legacyLinux-64bitarchive to the consistentlinux-${ARCH}naming (the modern naming is published for both arches).Replace the global
--platform linux/x86_64forcing on ARM hosts with explicit--platform linux/amd64on each amd64 production image build target (controller, extensions, sdk-server, ping, allocator, processor, and their debug variants). This mirrors the existing explicit--platform linux/arm64for arm64 builds. Net effect: dev tooling builds and runs native on whatever host arch is present, while production amd64 images continue to be built correctly on any host (including ARM).Add
CGO_ENABLED=0to thegolangci-lintinstall. Upstream's official golangci-lint binaries are built without CGO, so this matches their distribution model and avoids a runtime dependency on the deprecated gold linker.Which issue(s) this PR fixes:
Closes #4533
Special notes for your reviewer:
build-build-imagenatively on Apple Silicon (linux/arm64). Confirmedaarch64runtime,go version go1.26.0 linux/arm64,kubectl 1.34.6,helm 3.18.4,hugo 0.152.2 extended linux/arm64,htmltest 0.17.0,terraform 1.5.4,golangci-lint 1.64.8,gotestsum 1.13.0, andgcloud SDKall work natively inside the resulting container.docker build --platform linux/amd64(verified the URL patterns, the CGO_ENABLED=0 install).controller,extensions,sdk-server,ping,allocator,processor) gained an explicit--platform linux/amd64, so they continue to produce correct amd64-tagged images on any host. On amd64 hosts (Google Cloud Build), behavior is unchanged.gcr.io/cloud-builders/gcloud) is amd64-only at the manifest level, so it still runs under emulation on ARM64 hosts. The Dockerfile change for it is forward-compatible: when the gcloud base ships arm64 in the future, the URLs will resolve to the right binaries automatically.binutils-goldto the apt install line because it's deprecated indebian:trixie; usingCGO_ENABLED=0is the upstream-recommended path for golangci-lint and works on every arch.