Building Docker images for multiple architectures

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

My little mdserver app has been a good way for me to start experimenting with the the devops side of things, especially building for Docker. Since I wanted to make the Docker image available for ARM Linux & x86 Linux I had a janky shell script that looked like this:

#!/bin/bash

# Extract the version number from package.json using jq
VERSION=$(jq -r .version package.json)

docker build --platform linux/amd64 -t iankulin/mdserver:$VERSION -t iankulin/mdserver:latest .
docker build --platform linux/arm64 -t iankulin/mdserver:arm64-$VERSION -t iankulin/mdserver:arm64-latest .

docker push iankulin/mdserver:arm64-$VERSION 
docker push iankulin/mdserver:arm64-latest 

docker push iankulin/mdserver:$VERSION
docker push iankulin/mdserver:latest

So I’d build two different versions, and use the tags to separate them. In the registry it’d look like this:

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Building Docker images for multiple architectures