arm64 Docker image

[klvnptr]

Hello Guys. Thank you for this awesome project. Cloud you guys please provide arm64 Docker images as well? It would be much less resource intensive to test it on Apple M1 MacOS. Highly appreciated. Thanks. Peter

[vgoloviznin]

Hey Peter,

Thanks for taking interest in our project!

Unfortunately, we can't provide M1 builds at the moment as XGBoost and LightGBM libraries don't have corresponding builds out of the box. We are also blocked by Github Actions that don't have the arm64 platform available to run tests and builds of Metarank itself.

Hopefully in the future this will change and we will introduce the full arm64 support from our end.

[shuttie]

So the upstream blockers are dmlc/xgboost#7501, dmlc/xgboost#6408 and microsoft/LightGBM#3606. As we use our own native lib wrappers (see https://github.com/metarank/xgboost-java and https://github.com/metarank/lightgbm4j), we in theory can build these libs manually if anyone of us had M1 Mac locally, but we haven't :)

There are EC2 m1 instances, but they're extremely expensive (as minimum billing period is 24h).

So I suggest to leave this ticket open till one of the upstream libs will make an official m1 build.

[klvnptr]

Thank you guys so much for your quick feedback. It's okay. We can develop on amd64 for now :) In the future it would be helpful because AWS Graviton arm64 instances are more cost-effective than amd64. Btw. are you guys planning a SaaS for Metarank?

[vgoloviznin]

We can't directly answer the question yet, but I've reached out to you on LinkedIn to discuss further

[ChakshuGautam]

I have an M1 mac and would like to build the images and work on this issue. I can do this for the subsequent releases as well, since I am not able to use metarank without a remote machine.

[klvnptr]

@shuttie thank you so much! metarank rocks ❤️