Excellent! Thanks to Jarek and everyone involved for working on getting us better support on ARM-based Linux. 🙏 Looking forward for the upcoming improvements 👍
On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 3:13 AM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Another day, another announcement. I have just merged this PR > https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/22127 that adds support for > development for Mac OS M1 users (and also anyone who uses ARM-based linux. > > The M1 users have (rightfully) complained about rather poor performance > for Dockerized Airflow in Breeze (the intel-based images were used via > emulation and suffered roughly ~ 10x slower speed which made them barely > usable for development). > > As of today, our images used for development in Breeze are multi-platform > (amd64/arm64). This is - for now - development only and has some > limitations (mysql and mssql support is missing until mysql and mssql > release arm-based clients and servers - but we have full postgres and > sqlite support - including native ARM postgres server Docker image). > > Some initial teething problems have been fixed (thanks Elad/Ephraim :) but > also as a follow up I will need to observe it and implement a few build > optimizations (next few days). So if you see any problems, delays etc, ping > me on #breeze channel in our slack. > > Also building ARM images on Intel also suffers from the same 10x slower > emulation problems so we need to modify our CI / self-hosted > infrastructure, but once we do and once we start testing ARM on CI, we will > also be able to release multi-platform "release" images, completing > https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/15635 and opening up Airflow to > be used on ARM-based linux. > > I hope in 2.3.0 we will be able to release the Airflow Production ARM > image. > > J. > >
