[FLINK-25679] Build arm64 Linux images for Apache Flink

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.15.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.15.0
• Component/s: flink-docker
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Robert Metzger
• Reporter: Robert Metzger
• Created: 17/Jan/22 12:10
• Updated: 08/Feb/22 14:23
• Resolved: 08/Feb/22 07:03

Description

Building Flink images for arm64 Linux should be trivial to support, since upstream docker images support arm64, as well as frocksdb.

Building the images locally is also easily possible using Docker's buildx features, and the build system of the official docker images most likely supports ARM arch.

This improvement would allow us supporting development / testing on Apple M1-based systems, as well as ARM architecture at various cloud providers (AWS Graviton)

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #99
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #100
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #101