Tip of the day: running Flagr Docker image on a M1 mac
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Tip of the day: running Flagr Docker image on a M1 mac
Submitted by Frederic Marand on Fri, 2022-10-21 17:04
After almost one year with an Apple Silicon macBook, I eventually got my first actual problem caused by the architecture : trying to deploy the Flagr Open Source feature flags service, the docker deployment failed like with an image error. The fix turned out to be fairly simple:
The problem
One deploys Flagr initially by pulling an image and running it, to avoid the complexity of having to build it. From their Get Started page:
# Start the docker container
$ docker pull ghcr.io/openflagr/flagr
$ docker run -it -p 18000:18000 ghcr.io/openflagr/flagr
# Open the Flagr UI
$ open localhost:18000The pull step went through just fine, but when trying the docker run an issue appeared:
$ docker run -it -p 18000:18000 ghcr.io/openflagr/flagr
WARNING: The requested image's platform (linux/amd64) does not match the detected host platform (linux/arm64/v8) and no specific platform was requested
docker: Error response from daemon: platform linux/arm64/v8 not supported.
ERRO[0000] error waiting for container: context canceled
$Diagnostic
The error is fairly clear: without specifying an architecture, the download image is the one built for linux/amd64 and our M1 on macOS, needs an image for darwin/arm64. How do we specify this to docker ?
Turns out docker has an argument for this: --platform=darwin/amd64, to be used with Docker commands, by passing it before the name of the image:
docker pull --platform=darwin/arm64 ghcr.io/openflagr/flagr
docker run -it -p 18000:18000 --platform=darwin/arm64 ghcr.io/openflagr/flagrHowever, this is not really better, although the error is different:
$ docker run -it -p 18000:18000 --platform=darwin/arm64 ghcr.io/openflagr/flagr
Unable to find image 'ghcr.io/openflagr/flagr:latest' locally
8d68b8be8eac: Exists
aa19e9ea6d59: Exists
docker: Error response from daemon: platform darwin/arm64 not supported.
See 'docker run --help'.
$After some more checks, it appears flagr:1.1, currently the latest version, is not built for arm64. OK, but then we should be able to run using the Rosetta 2 emulation.
How can we can check if Rosetta is running ? Solution is with something like pgrep oahd (but it could be a false positive) or something safer like ps -e | grep oahd.
And of course I had never needed it yet :facepalm .
The solution
So let's install Rosetta 2:
$ softwareupdate --install-rosetta
I have read and agree to the terms of the software license agreement. A list of Apple SLAs may be found here: http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/
Type A and press return to agree: a
2022-10-21 17:24:32.524 softwareupdate[38332:520724] Package Authoring Error: 012-40509: Package reference com.apple.pkg.RosettaUpdateAuto is missing installKBytes attribute
Install of Rosetta 2 finished successfully
$At this point we should now be able to run x84-64 (amd64) binaries, including that Flagr image:
$ docker pull --platform=linux/amd64 ghcr.io/openflagr/flagr
Using default tag: latest
aa19e9ea6d59: Exists
8d68b8be8eac: Exists
ghcr.io/openflagr/flagr:latest
$ docker run -it -p 18000:18000 --platform=linux/amd64 ghcr.io/openflagr/flagr
INFO[0000] Serving flagr at http://[::]:18000Problem solved ! We now have a working Flagr server on the M1 macBook.
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