Anyone else has an opinion? Should we enable the ARM image as experimental?
On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 10:52 PM QP Hou <[email protected]> wrote: > > Would be great if we can get an official ARM image out soon. Our M1 > users can really benefit from this. Running Airflow in emulated mode > is simply unusable at the moment. > > In the long run, I think there is a very high chance that ARM will > take over x86. So it's not a bad idea to plant the seed early :) > > Let me know if there is anything I can do to help with this. > > On 2022/04/13 11:53:32 Jarek Potiuk wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > > > We have a CI image multi-platform image (including ARM64) platform for > > a few weeks and - to be perfectly honest - it's heaven and earth > > compared to the emulated image. > > > > Except running tests and supporting mssql and mysql - we **could** if > > we want to push a multiplatform image when we release as well. It will > > take a while to get proper testing in CI but I am inclined to release > > the ARM part of the image as "experimental" support in 2.3.0 even > > before we do it and give it in the hands of our users. > > > > Honestly I don't expect many problems in Airflow - i expect many more > > in numpys/pandas and other low-level scientific libraries, and having > > no support for MySQL and MSSQL for those images is a good one as we > > will remove some of the error-factors from people experimenting with > > it. > > > > That will allow people who work with Mac OS M1s or use newer Raspberry > > PIs or simply experiment with migration to ARM based server > > infrastructure to test and run "production" Airflow. > > > > There is a bigger "platform war" gearing up - with cloud providers > > ramping up their server side ARM support so we might well - in a year > > or two - be in the situation that ARM-based servers are becoming very > > popular and people will want to run Airflow there. > > > > WDYT? > >
