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Instead, we’ll leverage Docker’s built on context system to add multiple Docker endpoints that we can tie together to create a solution. This post is similar but doesn’t use k3s. In a previous post, I went over using remote systems to build multi-architecture images using native builders. If you can ssh to a remote machine using key based authentication then you can access Docker (provided you have your user setup properly). Using ssh is a convenient and secure way to access Docker on a remote machine. One of the ways that Docker allows for remote access is using ssh. The reasons vary, you just want to manage what is running on a remote system or maybe you want to build for a different architecture. Sometimes you need to access Docker on a remote machine.

Now that I am done testing I can remove the emulated profile using colima delete amd64 and the profile will be removed and cleaned up. With curl available, running curl will show a response from Nginx!

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With the new context available I will start a copy of Alpine Linux again and add the curl package using apk add curl. You can switch between contexts using docker context use followed by the name of the context you want to use. Running docker ps will also show there is nothing running. When this completes, docker context ls will now show a new context that it has switched to. Now I’ll create a native instance of Colima using colima start -profile arm64 -c 4 -m 6.

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This is super useful if you are testing different pieces of software together but one isn’t available natively for your platform.

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Once Nginx is running I will demonstrate how to connect to it from another container running on a different architecture. Next I am going to run Nginx as an x86_64 container by running docker run -rm -tid -p 80:80 -name nginx_amd64 nginx. Of course, you can run any container you need that is maybe x86_64 only.

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You should get this in return if you are on an M series Mac – Linux 526bf44161d6 5.15.68-0-virt #1-Alpine SMP Fri, 06:29:31 +0000 x86_64 Linux. I’ll start with alpine container by running docker run -rm -ti alpine uname -a to check what architecture it is running under. NAME TYPE DESCRIPTION DOCKER ENDPOINT KUBERNETES ENDPOINT ORCHESTRATORĬolima-amd64 * moby colima unix:///Users/dustin/.colima/amd64/docker.sockĭefault moby Current DOCKER_HOST based configuration unix:///var/run/docker.sockįrom here I can run a container. You will get output similar to this: docker context ls Give this some time to start up and then check your available Docker contexts using docker context ls. This Colima profile will take some time to start and will not have Kubernetes enabled. This command will create a Colima profile called “amd64” using architecture x86_64, 4 CPU cores and 6GB of memory. PROFILE STATUS ARCH CPUS MEMORY DISK RUNTIME ADDRESSįrom here I can create a new profile and tell it to emulate x86_64 using colima start -profile amd64 -a x86_64 -c 4 -m 6. You can see the current profiles by running colima list. I’m starting with an M1 based system with no Colima profiles created. Here is what you do to setup a Colima profile running a different CPU architecture. Containers running under emulation will run more slowly than they would if run on native hardware but having the ability to run them at all is really useful at times. This means M series Macs can run x86_64 containers and Intel Macs can run arm64 based images and the containers won’t be aware that they aren’t running on native hardware. Using Colima’s built in CPU architecture emulation it is possible to create a Colima instance, or profile, for either arm64 (aarch64) or amd64 (x86_64) on both types of Mac, the M series or an Intel series. While you can tap into buildx for building containers, running containers built for a different architecture other than yours requires Docker Desktop with its magic or the image itself needs to have been built in a specific way. Sometimes you need to run or build containers on a different architecture than you are using natively.