Does theia cloud image support arm64?

[wss29]

Hi,
I want to install Theia Cloud on an arm64 system. I attempted to use docker pull to obtain the images for an offline installation. However, it appears that only the amd64 versions of the images are available.

[jfaltermeier]

Hi, we currently only build for amd64. Please open an issue if you'd like to track support for arm64: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia-cloud/issues/new?template=feature_request.yml

It should be possible to add, similar to this workflow in the Theia IDE repository:
eclipse-theia/theia-ide@0b2c377

The only downside is that the emulated build takes a long time, so we should limit it to actual release builds rather than running it on every PR verification.

Contributions are always welcome!

[wss29]

hi @jfaltermeier
If it takes a long time to publish the arm64 version, could I build the images on my arm64 system? It seems that five images are needed to run Theia Cloud. Could you give an indication on how to build one of them for arm64? I will try to build the others by myself.

[jfaltermeier]

This should include all build commands for our images: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia-cloud/blob/main/documentation/Building.md

[wss29]

hi @jfaltermeier
Do I need to build Wondershaper image for arm64?

I check the images installed on Ubuntu amd64, only five images

[jfaltermeier]

By default, the operator.bandwidthLimiter Helm value is set to use Kubernetes annotations: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia-cloud-helm/tree/theia-cloud-1.0.0/charts/theia-cloud.

You would only need this image if you set this value to WONDERSHAPER or K8SANNOTATIONANDWONDERSHAPER.