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by nicois 1721 days ago
Hopefully ECS/fargate will also be supported soon. I tried shifting our CI workers to ARM but it resulted in not being able to use them to build ECS images, which was not great.
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Ditto. My main project & CI are ready to be (cross) compiled to ARM, I'm just waiting for Graviton-powered Fargate.
can't you cross-compile x86_64 binaries on an arm machine?
Cross-compilation is iffy at best -- too many developers of build scripts don't think about it, and end up not supporting it (e.g. Makefile doing codegen using a binary built during the run for the target arch) or having subtle and mysterious bugs (./configure saves things for the build arch, not the target arch)
I'm using fargate very happily (after price reductions).

For ubuntu / python-slim etc docker images - what changes are needed to let them target ARM (if any).