Missing arm64 Linux images

[frank7y]

Motivation

Add the possible to compile & run NSM on ARM based machines.

Overview

Hi there,
I noticed that arm64 Linux arch images for many of the NSM images, such as cmd ones, are no longer provided in the latest few versions of NSM. This change has affected, among other things, the possibility to experiment with NSM on Apple Silicon Macs, which is no longer possible. At least not without the hassle of compiling on our own the required images each time. Are there any plans to reintroduce arm64 Linux images in the future?

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[denis-tingaikin]

@frank7y Thanks for poinitng that. Looks critical.

As I found it comes from https://github.com/docker/build-push-action, looks like behaviour by defualt depending on runner thats why some of our release has this defect.

@edwarnicke I think we might need to specify a list of platforms for releasing images.
Probabbly we could simply start with linux/amd64,linux/arm64
Thoughts?

Also, I think we shoudl re-build all images for all releases that have this defect (should be quicly since we don't need to do changes in code just re-run jobs)

[denis-tingaikin]

@NikitaSkrynnik This might be useful for building forwarders edwarnicke/govpp#62

[edwarnicke]

@edwarnicke I think we might need to specify a list of platforms for releasing images.
Probabbly we could simply start with linux/amd64,linux/arm64
Thoughts?

That sounds right to me :)

[denis-tingaikin]

TODO:

sdk->govpp -> cmd-.*-vpp

• Include nsm/govpp in release pipeline ~ [3h, 4h]
• Initial CI~ [7h]
• Consider version format ~ [7h]
• IUpdate all nsm apps to use nsm/vovpp ~ [7h]

TOTAL: 28h

[edwarnicke]

TODO:

sdk->govpp -> cmd-.*-vpp

• Include nsm/govpp in release pipeline ~ [3h, 4h]
• Initial CI~ [7h]
• Consider version format ~ [7h]
• IUpdate all nsm apps to use nsm/vovpp ~ [7h]

TOTAL: 28h

Do we have issues for these other TODOs? Could we link them here?

[glazychev-art]

I think it was closed by mistake

[denis-tingaikin]

@edwarnicke Yes, I've created issues in https://github.com/networkservicemesh/govpp/issues

[denis-tingaikin]

Seems like done