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[WIP] Use flake to push to ghcr.io with multiplatform images

Open lucernae opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Hi team, I needed a native arm images for my M1 devcontainer, so I forked the repo and made a small PoC in my fork.

This is probably useable in upstream repo as well. Can someone help decide if this PR is worth to be merged/follow up?

The general idea is to use flake.nix to build a matrix of images with a combination of nix channel x nix system. For each image per system, we push to ghcr.io. For each images, we created multiplatform manifests that combines each system per images. This way, user can use a single unified tag and docker daemon will pick architecture that fits best, just like buildx. I used this approach because I don't know how to directly create multiarch images from nix dockertools.

I've tested this PoC for bash and devcontainer in my own repo.

Thanks for the comments!

lucernae avatar Aug 26 '23 08:08 lucernae

Hi @lucernae, I just saw this PR. Are you still interested in getting this work merged?

zimbatm avatar Dec 05 '24 14:12 zimbatm