balenalib Docker image platform warnings

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In the course of development I’ve taken to using the balenalib Docker images with Docker before deploying to a device running BalenaOS. I noticed recently that I’ve been getting a warning when doing docker builds about the platforms not matching the host. These are being built on an 8 GB RPi4 running 64 bit Ubuntu 20.04

ubuntu@ubuntu:~/test$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 5.4.0-1032-raspi #35-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Fri Mar 19 20:52:40 UTC 2021 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/test$ docker --version 
Docker version 20.10.5, build 55c4c88

Output from a Docker build of the base image I’m using followed by “balena-idle” for the image command, I added the --platform flag there to try and ensure I was getting the right image

ubuntu@ubuntu:~/test$ docker build  .
Sending build context to Docker daemon  3.072kB
Step 1/2 : FROM --platform=linux/arm64/v8 balenalib/raspberrypi4-64-debian-python:3.6-buster-build
3.6-buster-build: Pulling from balenalib/raspberrypi4-64-debian-python
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Digest: sha256:b16169d0f50f872d4578ffa3edcbcc79d79e1bc8e415fddccfa84546082ee6fe
Status: Downloaded newer image for balenalib/raspberrypi4-64-debian-python:3.6-buster-build

WARNING: Pulled image with specified platform (linux/arm64/v8), but the resulting image's configured platform (linux/amd64) does not match.
This is most likely caused by a bug in the build system that created the fetched image (balenalib/raspberrypi4-64-debian-python:3.6-buster-build).
Please notify the image author to correct the configuration.
 ---> 73d741710096
Step 2/2 : CMD [ "balena-idle" ]
 ---> [Warning] The requested image's platform (linux/amd64) does not match the detected host platform (linux/arm64/v8) and no specific platform was requested
 ---> Running in 7108fc255d35
Removing intermediate container 7108fc255d35
 ---> e06c9f5e3940
Successfully built e06c9f5e3940

I’m assuming the platform inconsistencies are from the cross compilation magic, the images seem to work just fine but the warning confused me for a while.

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I bet @nghiant2710 as the balenalib images guru could help shed some light on what you’re seeing here and maybe give some clarification? :slight_smile:

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Hi,

Currently, our base images build servers are running Docker version that doesn’t support --platform so all base images now show as linux/amd64). We’re working on moving all the builds to new build server with newer Docker so we can correctly set the architecture for each images.

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