Docker support for arm processors

[krystian-wojtas]

It would be great if etherpad could run in docker container on arm host.

Currently it supports only x86 architecture.

I rebuilt docker image on my own arm 64 host from yours Dockerfile and it succedded :) Then I uploded this image to docker hub here
https://hub.docker.com/r/kwojtas1/etherpad

I believe that it would be much better if arm processor could be supported officialy. Like in nextcloud case user runs command

docker pull nextcloud

and docker takes care which architecture it is interesting for user's host.

What do you think?

[muxator]

Hi,

I have a caveat for this: in the roadmap for 1.8 there is #3463 (integration of ep_hash_auth), which is an important security enhancement.

Right now, ep_hash_auth depends on the npm package bcrypt, which provides prebuilt binaries on a best effort basis, and only for Intel architechtures:

Currently, we have pre-built binaries that support the following platforms:

• Windows x32 and x64
• Linux x64 (GlibC targets only). Pre-built binaries for MUSL targets such as Apline Linux are not available.
• macOS

Thus I would be ok with enabling ARM support, provided that we have a strategy to deal with the compatibility problem that will arise afterwards.

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