One of the projects I work on is ProboCI. This continuous collaboration and testing tool is built with several dependencies – one of them being RethinkDB. Because I have been working on a Docker installation for the open source and proprietary versions of Probo, I have been using a full Docker container suite for development with an eye toward production.
Enter in Apple Silicon.
During this process, I purchased an upgraded Apple laptop with an M1 processor. Unfortunately the RethinkDB container does not contain an ARM64 compatibile build. As such I had to build my own. Using the instrucrtions here, as a baseline, I was able to come up with a mechanism by which I could build RethinkDB in an ARM container. Because Docker also runs on RaspberryPi (which is ARM based), this container should work. The only drawback right now is it is a very large container. Over 700mb compressed.
The project can be viewed on DockerHub. The URL is:
https://hub.docker.com/r/mbagnall/rethinkdb
I started from an Ubuntu 20.04 base image. I might be able to lighten the weight of this moving forward, but right now I needed to get it working quickly.
In addition to the dependencies listed in the article on RethinkDB, I also used the following packages installed via apt-install
- clang
- python
- make
- patch
So my base dependency install looked like:
One of the projects I work on is ProboCI. This continuous collaboration and testing tool is built with several dependencies – one of them being RethinkDB. Because I have been working on a Docker installation for the open source and proprietary versions of Probo, I have been using a full Docker container suite for development with an eye toward production.
Enter in Apple Silicone.
During this process, I purchased an upgraded Apple laptop with an M1 processor. Unfortunately the RethinkDB container does not contain an ARM64 compatibile build. As such I had to build my own. Using the instrucrtions here, as a baseline, I was able to come up with a mechanism by which I could build RethinkDB in an ARM container. Because Docker also runs on RaspberryPi (which is ARM based), this container should work. The only drawback right now is it is a very large container. Over 700mb compressed.
The project can be viewed on DockerHub. The URL is:
https://hub.docker.com/r/mbagnall/rethinkdb
I started from an Ubuntu 20.04 base image. I might be able to lighten the weight of this moving forward, but right now I needed to get it working quickly.
In addition to the dependencies listed in the article on RethinkDB, I also used the following packages installed via apt-install
- clang
- python
- make
- patch
So my base dependency install looked like:
apt-get -y install g++ protobuf-compiler libprotobuf-dev libboost-dev apt-get -y install curl m4 wget libssl-dev clang python make patch
I also have to include the RethinkDB source code inside my repository as attempting to wget this from the source produced segmentation faults which I still do not completely understand other than it may still be a bug being ironed out in Docker for Apple Silicone.
https://www.github.com/ElusiveMind/rethinkdb
This image is highly experimental and I am only using it for development. YMMV.
