ARM64 architecture is not supported in ansible playbooks

[norhan-ali-araba]

I was trying to run install-oss-hlf.yml ansible playbook to install operator and console, however under arch it doesn't allow me to add arm64
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "arch not specified or is not one of "amd64""}

[arner]

Do we know why the limitation is there?

[arner]

Here are some preliminary findings. I haven't been able to fully test it but at first sight it doesn't seem too complicated.

• There are checks in the following files that stop you from configuring arch: amd64:
  • roles/fabric_console/tasks/create.yml
  • roles/fabric_operator_crds/tasks/create.yml
  • roles/hlfsupport_console/tasks/create.yml
  • roles/hlfsupport_crds/tasks/create.yml
• The following templates use hardcoded architecture, this can be changed to the {{ arch }} variable if the hlfsupport images also support it:
  • roles/fabric_console/templates/k8s/hlf-operations-console.yaml.j2
  • roles/fabric_operator_crds/templates/openshift/manager/hlf-operator-manager.yaml.j2
• In some places in the code, beta.kubernetes.io/arch should be replaced with kubernetes.io/arch.

Finally, the playbooks are configured to use ghcr.io/ibm-blockchain/fabric-deployer:latest-amd64 by default. That repo is archived and the image has not been changed in 2 years, but the source code is now part of the fabric-operations-console repo. A new image can manually be created like this:

git clone [email protected]:hyperledger-labs/fabric-operations-console.git
cd fabric-operations-console/packages/fabric-deployer
export IMAGE=new-repository/fabric-deployer
GO_VER=1.20.12-5 make image
make image-push

Of course it would be better if that image is built as part of the fabric-operations-console CI pipeline.

Are the maintainers of the fabric-ansible-collection open to these updates, provided there will be multi-arch images for the deployer?