This is HUGE!! thanks Jarek. I have been suffering from slowness for months.
Thanks, Ping On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 3:19 AM Kevin Yang <[email protected]> wrote: > Excellent! Thanks to Jarek and everyone involved for working on getting us > better support on ARM-based Linux. 🙏 Looking forward for the upcoming > improvements 👍 > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 3:13 AM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Everyone, >> >> Another day, another announcement. I have just merged this PR >> https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/22127 that adds support for >> development for Mac OS M1 users (and also anyone who uses ARM-based linux. >> >> The M1 users have (rightfully) complained about rather poor performance >> for Dockerized Airflow in Breeze (the intel-based images were used via >> emulation and suffered roughly ~ 10x slower speed which made them barely >> usable for development). >> >> As of today, our images used for development in Breeze are multi-platform >> (amd64/arm64). This is - for now - development only and has some >> limitations (mysql and mssql support is missing until mysql and mssql >> release arm-based clients and servers - but we have full postgres and >> sqlite support - including native ARM postgres server Docker image). >> >> Some initial teething problems have been fixed (thanks Elad/Ephraim :) >> but also as a follow up I will need to observe it and implement a few >> build optimizations (next few days). So if you see any problems, delays >> etc, ping me on #breeze channel in our slack. >> >> Also building ARM images on Intel also suffers from the same 10x slower >> emulation problems so we need to modify our CI / self-hosted >> infrastructure, but once we do and once we start testing ARM on CI, we will >> also be able to release multi-platform "release" images, completing >> https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/15635 and opening up Airflow to >> be used on ARM-based linux. >> >> I hope in 2.3.0 we will be able to release the Airflow Production ARM >> image. >> >> J. >> >>
