Hi Laurence
Many thanks for all the info, totally agree that ARM support could be very
useful for the future with the new hardware.
I've only built the Wikibase docker image without "extras" but I'll give
it
a try.
WM has a complex CI/CD with Jenkins, that's the correct way but needs a lot
of effort. What I've done is build manually all required docker images
using the Dockerfiles (with some changes) from official git repos,
including the base images for stretch/buster using the same build shell
script from their repo (with some minor changes too). Finally I was able to
generate the "composer-php73" docker image for ARM (my problem in the first
message), then I built a wikibase docker image following the instructions:
I'll write clean notes about all the steps that I followed and pass you, it
would be great if WMDE includes ARM64 support.
Best,
JM
On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 10:23 PM Laurence Parry <greenreaper(a)hotmail.com>
wrote:
Hi JM (and Maarten),
The prospect of ARM64 support is something I've been looking into for a
while now. It's not just Pi, but Apple M1; and relatively cheap servers
from Ampere:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16315/the-ampere-altra-review
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16979/the-ampere-altra-max-review-pushing-it…
...and VMs from Oracle, AWS, GCP, etc. So it'd be great to see what you've
done so far so we can perhaps build on it, perhaps even with the ultimate
goal of getting WMDE to pick it up as an architecture option for its
releases. (We should open a ticket towards that goal, as a full release has
quite a few dependencies.)
Not sure exactly how much you achieved so far, so some of this may be
redundant, but here's some relevant components I collected for a draft
reply to you earlier email:
WMF does not see supporting ARM64 packages as a big priority, because it
would be a lot of work for an infrastructure they do not currently use:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274140
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283073
Which I guess is quite reasonable.
However there is still a ticket working towards ARM64 support for
development images:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272500
So far an ElasticSearch 6 image has been created which may be important,
as I gather newer versions of Wikibase increasingly rely on CirrusSearch:
https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/kharlan/wmf-elasticsearch-arm64
See
https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:WikibaseCirrusSearch and
https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikibaseCirrusSearch for details of
relevant functionality.
If this changes to OpenSearch (ES 7.10.2+ API):
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280482
...then
https://www.docker.elastic.co/r/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-oss:7.10.2-arm64
or a similar build from OpenSearch may be helpful instead. This seems
likely to happen for a future release of MediaWiki (1.38+?):
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263142
I found an ARM64 build of Blazegraph 2.2.2 here:
https://hub.docker.com/r/robcast/researchspace-blazegraph
This might not be exactly what is required for WDQS, which has its own
modifications, but perhaps it would be a step towards it?
If a base system is needed, this might be useful?
https://hub.docker.com/layers/mediawiki/library/mediawiki/stable-fpm-alpine…
If you want something beefier for native building, Oracle has free ARM64
VMs up to 1x 4-core/24GB if you can navigate their registration and
instantiation process:
https://www.oracle.com/uk/cloud/free/
--
Laurence 'GreenReaper' Parry
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*From:* jm <zauron.subs(a)gmail.com>
*Sent:* Saturday, November 6, 2021 9:51:37 PM
*To:* Wikibase Community User Group <wikibaseug(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
*Subject:* [Wikibase] Wikibase ARM 64
Hi all,
I would like to run a Wikibase instance in my Raspberry Pi 4 for
demo/sandbox purposes.
I'm trying to generate a Wikibase docker image for ARM 64 bits, using a
Raspberry Pi 4 (ARMv8) but I get this error:
+ docker run --volume
/tmp/tmp.dBLABg/Wikibase/composer.json:/tmp/composer.json --volume
/tmp/tmp.dBLABg/Wikibase/vendor/:/tmp/vendor/
docker-registry.wikimedia.org/releng/composer-php73:latest install
--no-dev --ignore-platform-reqs -vv -d /tmp/
WARNING: The requested image's platform (linux/amd64) does not match the
detected host platform (linux/arm64/v8) and no specific platform was
requested
standard_init_linux.go:228: exec user process caused: exec format error
Then I need a "docker-registry.wikimedia.org/releng/composer-php73" image
for ARM, where could I find the source code to generate this image from
scratch?
Best regards,
JM
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