Portainer agent not working on arm V6 architecture

[glamorous]

Bug description
Trying to install portainer agent on Rasberry Pi 1B with latest raspbian lite.

Expected behavior
As mentioned in #5406 the minimum requirement to run the agent are 20MB RAM and .1% CPU core so I don't see why this ARM version could not be used.

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Run 'docker run -d -p 9001:9001 --name portainer_agent --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v /var/lib/docker/volumes:/var/lib/docker/volumes portainer/agent:latest'
2. See error 'docker: no matching manifest for linux/arm/v6 in the manifest list entries.'

Technical details:

• Docker version: Docker version 23.0.1, build a5ee5b1
• Platform: Linux arm V6
• Use case: Using Portainer at Home.
• Have you reviewed our technical documentation and knowledge base? Yes

Additional context
So it would be nice if I can run one small node-red container on "older" raspberry pi machine and manage it through portainer on a newer device. So running the agent, not the whole portainer would be nice thing to have and I was expecting it to work as docker is running on the machine.

[tamarahenson]

@glamorous

Thank you for the information. I am currently investigating. I will update you as I learn more.

Thanks!

[tamarahenson]

Update:

Upon further review, appears we are no longer supporting V6 as newer versions are now V7. The following might help: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66116587/docker-buildx-mulitarch-armv6

Thanks!

[glamorous]

Hi @tamarahenson thank you for your time and comment but I can't see how this is helping me? A lot of other containers are still supporting armv6, so my main question is why portainer agent isn't supported anymore as the hardware requirement are very low.

[jamescarppe]

We cover this in our knowledge base: https://portal.portainer.io/knowledge/which-arm-architectures-does-portainer-support

Some of the third-party binaries we use to provide our capabilities are not available for older architectures anymore, and as such we aren't able to provide the full features of Portainer on these systems.

[glamorous]

hi @jamescarppe, thank you for the link from KB, didn't knew it. Sad to read it. I can understand for portainer but is it still the case for the agent? I would think that would have less dependencies? 🤞

[jamescarppe]

Less dependencies yes, but the tooling may still need to run on the environment to perform the actions.

[glamorous]

Is there maybe on old version that can be used from the agent that worked before and that will work with recent version of portainer? That could be a solution as well off course 😄

[jamescarppe]

We haven't officially supported ARMv6 for quite some time, so while it might be possible you would be on your own there. You might be able to find a working version, but you might also find that some (or all) functionality is broken.

[glamorous]

Sad to read, would be very nice if we can run portainer agent, just like docker on those older devices. This way we can just use them instead of replace them. This way small tasks like heartbeats and watchdogs would be managed by a another portainer instance.

FYI: I tried to search in the releases on github for a mentioning of armv6 or something like that but couldn't find a mention of that architecture.

[skybarberom]

I was looking for the lastest portainer agent version running on arm v6 too. Have you managed to find it?

[becdetat]

I'm trying Portainer on a Raspberry Pi Zero W and it looks like portainer/portainer-ce:linux-arm-2.11.1-alpine is the latest tag for linux/arm (ie linux/arm/v6, or 32-bit ARM).

docker pull portainer/portainer-ce:linux-arm-2.11.1-alpine

[glamorous]

I was talking about the agent, not portainer iteself. Do you have a working tag for the agent?

[becdetat]

Ah, no, sorry