ARM docker Image

[vncloudsco]

Dear: all contributors

we know that your software already support ARM however i see its docker image is not updated. is there any guide to help me do it or can you update the docker hub image?

Ref: https://blog.zulip.com/2022/03/29/zulip-5-0-released/

[maltegrosse]

multi arch images would be great! its possible to setup easily with github actions

[leadvic]

it's been more than a year since this, just to know are there any update or hope for those with ARM?

Thank you before hand!

[klardotsh]

You'll want to ping the team about #397, the re-opened flavor of the PR linked to this issue above. I no longer work for Zulip and highly doubt I'll have the appropriate time to do much with that PR as an external contributor any time soon, but it appears there's not a whole lot of feedback on it to address before it'll be in a merge-ready state (to my eye, and with the understanding that my knowledge of the Zulip codebase context ends at the end of March when I changed dayjobs).

[dretsa]

Are there any updates on this? Would be great to be able to run on t4g instances on AWS!

[cb0s]

Any updates? :) Would be great to get this installed on an ARM VPS! 😄

[cb0s]

For anyone who cannot wait (like me), simply build the image yourself on the target machine. For this, navigate to the folder to which you cloned docker-zulip:

$ pwd
/home/dummy-user/docker-zulip
$ # this can take several minutes - in my case it was ~50 min on a relatively new server
$ # you can choose (almost) any tag you like after -t
$ docker buildx build -t zulip-arm:latest .

Now edit the docker-compose.yml with your favourite editor or vim:

$ vim docker-compose.yml

Change the image of zulip from zulip/docker-zulip:<version> to the tag you chose earlier (zulip-arm:latest in this case).

You can probably also do this in one step changing image to build in the docker compose file. You will find more information about this in the official docker documentation.

[klardotsh]

You can also cross-build from either architecture to the other. This is what the build_and_push_image.sh from #397 does: builds ARM64 images from AMD64 hosts. That script was designed to be able to push to ~any registry for ~any architectures or tags by changing environment variables.

The branch is a year and a half old and at this point I don't know what kind of rebase pain someone would be in for to stack it onto current trunk, but I suspect at least that script could be cherry-picked and used by anyone interested, still.

[tito]

If we try to build an ARM image today, we got issue with keyid in pnpm.

Apply theses changes to the Dockerfile to go around it:

diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 7acf367..dfd6c43 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ RUN git clone "$ZULIP_GIT_URL" && \

 WORKDIR /home/zulip/zulip

+# Corepack PNPM signature verification error, just for 9.4.0
+RUN sed -i '/ln -sf /a npm install -g corepack@latest' scripts/lib/install-node && \
+    git config user.email "[email protected]" && \
+    git config user.name "docker" && \
+    git commit -am 'update corepack'
+
 ARG CUSTOM_CA_CERTIFICATES

 # Finally, we provision the development environment and build a release tarball

Note: it would be easier to up the node version + update sha256 key, but the fix it not yet released on the latest node LTS

[Pezhvak]

I've made a docker image for arm, if anyone is instrested:

https://hub.docker.com/r/immortalvision/zulip-arm

[LiquidatorIO]

@Pezhvak I tried to build Zulip myself in docker, but it gets error. You had the same issue?

liquidator@ShadowGalactic:/volume1/docker/zulip$ sudo docker-compose up
Password: 
[+] Building 18.5s (7/14)                                                                                                                                                                    
 => CACHED [zulip internal] load git source https://github.com/zulip/docker-zulip.git                                                                                                   2.3s
 => [zulip internal] load metadata for docker.io/library/ubuntu:24.04                                                                                                                   5.0s 
 => [zulip base 1/2] FROM docker.io/library/ubuntu:24.04@sha256:72297848456d5d37d1262630108ab308d3e9ec7ed1c3286a32fe09856619a782                                                        0.0s 
 => CACHED [zulip base 2/2] RUN { [ ! "$UBUNTU_MIRROR" ] || sed -i "s|http://\(\w*\.\)*archive\.ubuntu\.com/ubuntu/\? |$UBUNTU_MIRROR |" /etc/apt/sources.list; } &&     apt-get -q up  0.0s 
 => CACHED [zulip build 1/5] RUN echo 'zulip ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' >> /etc/sudoers                                                                                                0.0s
 => CACHED [zulip build 2/5] WORKDIR /home/zulip                                                                                                                                        0.0s
 => ERROR [zulip build 3/5] RUN git clone "https://github.com/zulip/docker-zulip.git" &&     cd zulip &&     git checkout -b current "10.1"                                             7.7s
------                                                                                                                                                                                       
 > [zulip build 3/5] RUN git clone "https://github.com/zulip/docker-zulip.git" &&     cd zulip &&     git checkout -b current "10.1":                                                        
4.980 Cloning into 'docker-zulip'...
6.589 /bin/sh: 1: cd: can't cd to zulip

[Pezhvak]

@Pezhvak I tried to build Zulip myself in docker, but it gets error. You had the same issue?

liquidator@ShadowGalactic:/volume1/docker/zulip$ sudo docker-compose up
Password: 
[+] Building 18.5s (7/14)                                                                                                                                                                    
 => CACHED [zulip internal] load git source https://github.com/zulip/docker-zulip.git                                                                                                   2.3s
 => [zulip internal] load metadata for docker.io/library/ubuntu:24.04                                                                                                                   5.0s 
 => [zulip base 1/2] FROM docker.io/library/ubuntu:24.04@sha256:72297848456d5d37d1262630108ab308d3e9ec7ed1c3286a32fe09856619a782                                                        0.0s 
 => CACHED [zulip base 2/2] RUN { [ ! "$UBUNTU_MIRROR" ] || sed -i "s|http://\(\w*\.\)*archive\.ubuntu\.com/ubuntu/\? |$UBUNTU_MIRROR |" /etc/apt/sources.list; } &&     apt-get -q up  0.0s 
 => CACHED [zulip build 1/5] RUN echo 'zulip ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' >> /etc/sudoers                                                                                                0.0s
 => CACHED [zulip build 2/5] WORKDIR /home/zulip                                                                                                                                        0.0s
 => ERROR [zulip build 3/5] RUN git clone "https://github.com/zulip/docker-zulip.git" &&     cd zulip &&     git checkout -b current "10.1"                                             7.7s
------                                                                                                                                                                                       
 > [zulip build 3/5] RUN git clone "https://github.com/zulip/docker-zulip.git" &&     cd zulip &&     git checkout -b current "10.1":                                                        
4.980 Cloning into 'docker-zulip'...
6.589 /bin/sh: 1: cd: can't cd to zulip

To build the image yourself you have to use docker build command not the docker compose:

docker build -t [tag name] .

[LiquidatorIO]

Yes, thanks. I found this out and trying
sudo docker build -t zulip-arm:latest .
or
sudo docker build -t zulip:latest .

Sadly, it freezes on

 Downloaded semgrep
 Downloaded django
      Built python-ldap==3.4.4
      Built psycopg2==2.9.10
      Built uwsgi==2.0.28
      Built line-profiler==4.2.0

[Pezhvak]

Yes, thanks. I found this out and trying sudo docker build -t zulip-arm:latest . or sudo docker build -t zulip:latest .

Sadly, it freezes on

 Downloaded semgrep
 Downloaded django
      Built python-ldap==3.4.4
      Built psycopg2==2.9.10
      Built uwsgi==2.0.28
      Built line-profiler==4.2.0

you probably need more resources to make the image, if i remember correctly i tried to compile zulip with 4gb node but it got stuck, then i scaled to 8gb node and it went through.

[LiquidatorIO]

That is terrible information :P
Is there a way to build newest arm image through docker hub?

[Pezhvak]

I just built the ARM image for version 10.1-0, since i use zulip for my company i will keep it up-to-date, you may want to use it here:

docker pull immortalvision/zulip-arm:10.1-0

but you you are concerned about security and want to build it yourself from source, you have to boot an 8gb instance somewhere on the cloud and run the command i gave you, then push it into dockerhub and use it. that's what i'm doing as well.

The best approach is to enable multi-arch in ci/cd so it gets bult for AMD and ARM at the same time, this will ensure people who are concerned about security issues with third-party builds.

[LiquidatorIO]

Thank you!
I used your image before. Installation worked and I got through the whole process.
Sadly, upgrading to a new image didn't solve my issue #493

[Pezhvak]

Thank you! I used your image before. Installation worked and I got through the whole process. Sadly, upgrading to a new image didn't solve my issue #493

it seems you are using docker compose to boot things up, is that right? if so please share your final yaml file here so people can help you if possible.

[LiquidatorIO]

Yes. I pasted docker-compose.yml there, upgraded with new image.