Add support to build arm64 image

Stolen from sameersbn#2732

Signed-off-by: Hermann Mayer <hermann.mayer92@gmail.com>

assets/build/install.sh

@@ -14,10 +14,27 @@ RUBY_SRC_URL=https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/${RUBY_VERSION%.*}/ruby-${RUBY
 
 GEM_CACHE_DIR="${GITLAB_BUILD_DIR}/cache"
 
+# check system platform
+# TODO: cover as many variations as possible (depending on the platform supported by golang)
+case "$(uname -m)" in
+  "x86_64")
+    PLATFORM_NAME="amd64"
+    ;;
+  "aarch64")
+    PLATFORM_NAME="arm64"
+    ;;
+  *)
+    echo "The platform not supported ($(uname -a))"
+    exit 1
+esac
+
+GOLANG_ARCHIVE="go${GOLANG_VERSION}.linux-${PLATFORM_NAME}.tar.gz"
+
 GOROOT=/tmp/go
 PATH=${GOROOT}/bin:$PATH
 
 export GOROOT PATH
+export GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org"
 
 BUILD_DEPENDENCIES="gcc g++ make patch pkg-config cmake paxctl \
   libc6-dev \
@@ -97,9 +114,9 @@ BUNDLER_VERSION="$(grep "BUNDLED WITH" ${GITLAB_INSTALL_DIR}/Gemfile.lock -A 1 |
 gem install bundler:"${BUNDLER_VERSION}"
 
 # download golang
-echo "Downloading Go ${GOLANG_VERSION}..."
-wget -cnv https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go${GOLANG_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz -P ${GITLAB_BUILD_DIR}/
-tar -xf ${GITLAB_BUILD_DIR}/go${GOLANG_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz -C /tmp/
+echo "Downloading Go ${GOLANG_VERSION} for ${PLATFORM_NAME}..."
+wget -cnv https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/${GOLANG_ARCHIVE} -P ${GITLAB_BUILD_DIR}/
+tar -xf ${GITLAB_BUILD_DIR}/${GOLANG_ARCHIVE} -C /tmp/
 
 # install gitlab-shell
 echo "Downloading gitlab-shell v.${GITLAB_SHELL_VERSION}..."
@@ -147,7 +164,7 @@ git clone -q -b v${GITALY_SERVER_VERSION} --depth 1 ${GITLAB_GITALY_URL} ${GITLA
 make -C ${GITLAB_GITALY_BUILD_DIR} install
 mkdir -p ${GITLAB_GITALY_INSTALL_DIR}
 # The following line causes some issues. However, according to
-# <https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/-/merge_requests/5512> and 
+# <https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/-/merge_requests/5512> and
 # <https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/-/merge_requests/5671> there seems to
 # be some attempts to remove ruby from gitaly.
 #
@@ -164,7 +181,7 @@ rm -rf ${GITLAB_GITALY_BUILD_DIR}
 
 # remove go
 go clean --modcache
-rm -rf ${GITLAB_BUILD_DIR}/go${GOLANG_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz ${GOROOT}
+rm -rf ${GITLAB_BUILD_DIR:?}/${GOLANG_ARCHIVE} ${GOROOT}
 
 # remove HSTS config from the default headers, we configure it in nginx
 exec_as_git sed -i "/headers\['Strict-Transport-Security'\]/d" ${GITLAB_INSTALL_DIR}/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
@@ -206,7 +223,7 @@ exec_as_git yarn install --production --pure-lockfile
 exec_as_git yarn add ajv@^4.0.0
 
 echo "Compiling assets. Please be patient, this could take a while..."
-exec_as_git bundle exec rake gitlab:assets:compile USE_DB=false SKIP_STORAGE_VALIDATION=true NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=4096"
+exec_as_git bundle exec rake gitlab:assets:compile USE_DB=false SKIP_STORAGE_VALIDATION=true NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=8192"
 
 # remove auto generated ${GITLAB_DATA_DIR}/config/secrets.yml
 rm -rf ${GITLAB_DATA_DIR}/config/secrets.yml

custom-build.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+# Takes ages on a beefy Xeon workstation (5h+ due to arm64 emulation via qemu)
+# docker buildx create --name multi-platform-builder --use --bootstrap || true
+# time docker buildx build \
+#   --push --platform linux/amd64,linux/arm64 \
+#   -t jack12816/private:gitlab-16.1.2 .
+
+# Run on a AWS/EC2/t4g.2xlarge 8vCPU/32GB memory (0.2944 USD per Hour)
+# for ~45 min (with manual Docker installation on Ubuntu)
+time docker buildx build --push -t jack12816/private:gitlab-16.1.2 .