Just for your information: Thanks to that change - i will soon be adding
ARM support for Apache Airflow - including building and publishing the
images and running our tests (using self-hosted runners).
As soon as I get it I will be able to share the code/experiences with you.

J

On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 2:50 PM Ismaël Mejía <[email protected]> wrote:

> For awareness with the just released Beam 2.36.0 Beam works out of the
> box to develop on a Mac M1.
>
> I tried Java and Python pipelines with success running locally on both
> Flink/Spark runner.
> I found one issue using zstd and created [1] that was merged today,
> with this the sdks:core tests and Spark runner tests fully pass.
>
> I would see 2.36.0 is the first good enough release for someone
> working on a Mac M1 or ARM64 processor.
>
> There are still some missing steps to have full ARM64 [apart of testing it
> :)]
>
> 1. In theory we could run docker x86 images on ARM but those would be
> emulated so way slower so it is probably better to support 'native'
> CPUs) via multiarchitecture docker images [2].
> BEAM-11704 Support Beam docker images on ARM64
>
> I could create the runners images from master, for the SDK containers
> there are some issues with hardcoded paths [2] and virtualenv that
> probably will be solved once we move to venv, and we will need to
> upgrade our release process to include multiarch images (for user
> friendliness).
>
> Also golang only supports officially ARM64 starting with version
> 1.18.0 so we need to move up to that version.
>
> Anyway Beam is in a waaay better shape for ARM64 now than 1y ago when
> I created the initial JIRAs.
>
> Ismaël
>
> [1] https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/16755
> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-11704
> [3]
> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/d1b8e569fd651975f08823a3db49dbee56d491b5/sdks/python/container/Dockerfile#L79
>
>
>
>    > Could not find protoc-3.14.0-osx-aarch_64.exe
> (com.google.protobuf:protoc:3.14.0).
>      Searched in the following locations:
>
> https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/google/protobuf/protoc/3.14.0/protoc-3.14.0-osx-aarch_64.exe
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 9:53 PM Luke Cwik <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > The docker container running in an x86 based cloud machine should work
> pretty well. This is what Apache Beam's Jenkins setup effectively does.
> >
> > No experience with developing on an ARM based CPU.
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 9:28 AM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Comment from the side - If you use Docker - experience from Airflow -
> >> until we will get ARM images, docker experience is next to unusable
> >> (docker filesystem slowness + emulation).
> >>
> >> J.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 6:21 PM Daniel Collins <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I regularly develop on a non-m1 mac using intellij, which mostly
> works out of the box. Are you running into any particular issues building
> or just looking for advice?
> >> >
> >> > -Daniel
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 12:16 PM Matt Rudary <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Does anyone do Beam development on an M1 Mac? Any tips to getting
> things up and running?
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Alternatively, does anyone have a good “workstation in the cloud”
> setup?
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks
> >> >>
> >> >> Matt
>

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