[NIFI-9554] Support building and running NiFi on arm64/aarch64 platforms such as Apple Silicon M1 Macs - ASF JIRA

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Type: Improvement
Status: Resolved
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: 1.17.0
Component/s: Tools and Build
Labels:
- arm64

Description

Some development environments are transitioning to be based on arm64, such as Apple Silicon M1 Macs.
AWS is also offering arm-based EC2 instances which could be a good target platform for NiFi clusters.
Some target runtimes for MiNiFi Java also fall into this category, such as Raspberry Pi.

There are also some native arm64/aarch64 JVMs available that can run on these platforms without emulation.

Given this, it seems like a good time to adding support for building and running on arm64/aarch64 in addition to amd64/x86_64.

An initial bit of experimentation shows that the full Maven build fails using an arm64 JDK, but can succeed with a few changes. This ticket is to introduce changes that allow Apache NiFi and subprojects such as MiNiFi and Registry to build and run using a native arm64 JDKs.

Additionally, once this is achieved, add a CI build that targets arm64 platforms to prevent future changes that would break arm64 compatibility.