Is it going to be interesting to see how new Apple machines running ARM based processors plays out.
Writing code, and building docker images locally on ARM and building and running the same code on X86 in production could potentially, in some circumstances cause some issues. If not, it's a bit of a pain to potentially build and publish x86 and ARM images so that people can run them anywhere (Some projects are already doing this). Running production on ARM could work if you wanted to, but right now the instance types are very restricted in terms of different combinations of cpu/disk/io.
> building docker images locally on ARM and running it on X86 in production could potentially, in some circumstances cause some issues.
Won't it always cause issues? If you build locally you are packaging ARM binaries in zfs which won't run on x86... unless you somehow signal to docker that you want a different arch when building
If you are developing on Apple silicon, the path of least resistance is to deploy to AWS Graviton2 instances, even if the instance cpu/memory/io combination isn't perfect fit for your usecase.
I agree. However for a lot of people, their workloads have been running on x86 forever, maybe their production instances are not reproducible, and with combinations of cpu/memory/io being limited, at scale this could cost $$$. I’m just curious to see how this will pan out.
