Can we publish the list of distroless supported architectures?

[yuwenma]

Hi,

We are trying to use distroless as the base image for kubernetes images (See details here) These containers can run in different architectures (am64, arm32v6,arm64v8,ppc64le, s390x).

I couldn't find any resource giving the full list of distroless supported architectures, so I think maybe I should file this issue. Can we have an official list of distroless supported architectures?

I also found issue #222. Is there any plans on supporting the following architectures: am64, arm32v6,arm64v8,ppc64le, s390x ?

[yuwenma]

/cc @dlorenc @chanseokoh

[tallclair]

See this comment: #259 (comment)

We're just using distroless:static in Kubernetes, which doesn't have any binary components, so doesn't need multi-architecture builds

[yuwenma]

@tallclair Thanks Tim. Then I'm good to move forward. Will keep this issue open to track further discussions about publishing an official architecture list.

[chanseokoh]

FTR: bazelbuild/rules_docker#300

X-ref: #406 #569

[rpsene]

@chanseokoh not arch agnostic:

[chanseokoh]

Yup, certainly, the image configuration contains platform information. What I'm telling you is that, for distroless/static, everything else except the image metadata is most likely platform-agonistic.

[jonjohnsonjr]

The actual contents of the image aren't platform specific -- I assume the config file values are just a historical curiosity.

I ran into something similar in google/go-containerregistry#751 where we accidentally were omitting those fields and it worked for everything except for windows... if rules_docker allows us to just drop the architecture, that might be enough to get container runtimes to be happy?