balena push vs build and deploy

If you’re using balena build to build your images then you should be using balena deploy to deploy the built artifacts. balena push bundles your directory and sends it for building (again) on our cloud builders and deploys in one go. The equivalent to push is indeed balena deploy --build. Both build and deploy --build will indeed cross compile if needed, but push will most likely use the ARM builders which means there’s no cross-copmilation.