[NIFI-9177] Provide ARM64 docker Images for Apache Nifi

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.14.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.19.0
• Component/s: Docker
• Labels: arm64 docker
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Vaibhav Pal Singh
• Created: 29/Aug/21 04:47
• Updated: 26/Nov/22 03:12
• Resolved: 18/Nov/22 18:51

Description

Docker for mac is not able to correctly emulate the amd64 binaries for apache nifi. 

Request to provide arm64 images for apache nifi, now that the apple M1 hardware is becoming very popular among developer community as well.

The error logs as follows :

2021-08-29 04:36:48,799 WARN [main] org.apache.nifi.web.server.JettyServer Failed to start web server... shutting down.2021-08-29 04:36:48,799 WARN [main] org.apache.nifi.web.server.JettyServer Failed to start web server... shutting down.java.io.IOException: Function not implemented at sun.nio.fs.LinuxWatchService.<init>(LinuxWatchService.java:64) at sun.nio.fs.LinuxFileSystem.newWatchService(LinuxFileSystem.java:47) at org.apache.nifi.nar.NarAutoLoader.start(NarAutoLoader.java:68) at org.apache.nifi.web.server.JettyServer.start(JettyServer.java:1229) at org.apache.nifi.NiFi.<init>(NiFi.java:159) at org.apache.nifi.NiFi.<init>(NiFi.java:71) at org.apache.nifi.NiFi.main(NiFi.java:303)2021-08-29 04:36:48,830 INFO [Thread-1] org.apache.nifi.NiFi Initiating shutdown of Jetty web server...

 

Issue Links

• is blocked by: NIFI-9554 Support building and running NiFi on arm64/aarch64 platforms such as Apple Silicon M1 Macs
• is related to: NIFI-7846 Supporting os.arch aarch64 issues

Sub-Tasks

• Change base Docker images for NiFi: Resolved