I’m not on M1 yet, but I’m expecting to switch very soon, and I really prefer the convenience of the Docker setup.
That PR link links to https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5321 where they say:
the only solution is to switch to arm64-capable multi-arch images. These will also be a lot faster and generally more reliable. I recommend investigating which base images you’re using and to switch to multi-arch ones where possible. You can see which architectures are supported by each image on Docker Hub: […]
To build a multi-arch image yourself, I recommend
docker buildx, check out this blog post: https://www.docker.com/blog/multi-arch-build-and-images-the-simple-way/
Is the Discourse team open to supporting a multi-arch image? It looks like the Discourse base image is based on debian:buster-slim, which is multi-arch, so it seems like it shouldn’t be outrageously difficult to make the Discourse base image be multi-arch, but that might put y’all in the position of having to support ARM (in production!). Somebody (the Discourse team?) would need to run the Discourse tests on both x86_64 and ARM, fix issues when they fail, etc.
Would a PR even be welcome here?
(IMO, it seems like ARM is the architecture of the future, even on cloud-hosted environments.)