Make a pre-comiled arm64 build

[Knight1]

Problem

There is only a pre-compiled arm version for Terraform available the arm64/aarch64 versions is missing. I was able to build it with go 1.8.1 without any errors on a Thunder X.

Fix

Please make a pre-compiled arm64 version from Terraform available unter the download section.

Thanks!

Terraform Version

0.9.5

[Knight1]

Consul fixed it with this commit: hashicorp/consul@437222f

Vault with this: hashicorp/vault@7bce602

[apparentlymart]

Hi @Knight1! Thanks for this request.

Right now we are doing some other release-engineering-type work internally, which will change how Terraform and its providers are built and packaged. Since there's already work underway there that we don't want to disrupt, we'll come back to this once the current tranche of work is done and see what it would take to do this under the new approach.

[vielmetti]

Thanks @apparentlymart - any sense for how the build reorg work is going, and what timeframe that is planned to appear in?

We are about to engage in some more work on improving the Terraform provider at Packet (which will touch the ARMv8 servers there, hence the continuing interest).

[necrose99]

I have @scaleway i can make a compile run.

[vielmetti]

Thanks @necrose99 - and thanks for following through on this.

@apparentlymart there are CI resources available at Packet for doing this, but I don't know your existing build environment well enough to suggest which of them might work best.

[necrose99]

i'm just using Gentoo in a chroot on debian host
https://gpo.zugaina.org/Search?search=terraform
https://gitlab.com/chaoslab/chaoslab-overlay.git
https://github.com/samuelbernardo/ssnb-overlay
layman to add overlay , however eselect repository
app-admin/terraform-provider-libvirt
app-admin/terraform-provider-opennebula

emerge -av app-admin/terraform
after cleaning out tinderbox ,
long as i Dont need docker runing,,, it will build...

ebuild terraform-0.11.8.ebuild rpm will also spit out a redhat rpm ,
forcing it via alien a deb..
fakeroot alien --target=arm64 terraform-0.11.8-r0.aarch64.rpm

as being a src based distro /var/tmp and /usr/portage/package ""/distfiles start to fill up...

[necrose99]

Uploading terraform-0.11.8-r0.aarch64.rpm.zip…
@Knight1 @vielmetti @apparentlymart
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o4rqwf0iy98hyod/terraform-0.11.8-r0.aarch64.rpm?dl=0

time to feed the mrs's so will upload ltr.
app-admin/ subfolder for gentoo...
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4u9gbhps0ek402e/AAC5VLBE32cwH2gGjkj0Yz9sa?dl=0
terraform-0.11.8-r0.aarch64.zip

[necrose99]

dump of rpm spec , auto generated from ebuild rpm.... from gentoo ebuild...

scw-0321f9 /var/tmp/portage/app-admin/terraform-0.11.8/temp # ls
build.log  eclass-debug.log  environment  go-build201936607  logging  rpmbuild  terraform-0.11.8.spec
scw-0321f9 /var/tmp/portage/app-admin/terraform-0.11.8/temp # cat terraform-0.11.8.spec
Summary: A tool for building, changing, and combining infrastructure safely/efficiently
Name: terraform
Version: 0.11.8
Release: r0
License: GPL
Group: portage/app-admin
Source: terraform-0.11.8.tar.gz
%description
A tool for building, changing, and combining infrastructure safely/efficiently

https://www.terraform.io

%prep
%setup -c

%build

%install

%clean

%files
/
scw-0321f9 /var/tmp/portage/app-admin/terraform-0.11.8/temp #

[vielmetti]

@grubernaut what is the necessary to get this build of Terraform for arm64 into your main build system? We are hoping to target something for Hashiconf in October, and it looks like things work and are tested if the artifacts can be built.

[grubernaut]

@vielmetti I'm not sure, as I haven't been an HC employee for almost a year now 😄. But @apparentlymart would likely be the best point of contact for this question.

[apparentlymart]

Hi all,

I think the answer to this is similar to my answer in #18708. The summary is: a bunch of other stuff needs to be updated in order for a new architecture to be useful/supported.

Given this, I expect the most likely thing here would be that we hold on this for the moment and then make a set of supported-platform changes all at once so we can amortize that effort, probably also in conjunction with a forthcoming revamp of the build process for other reasons that is being driven by HashiCorp's internal engineering services team (and thus not something driven by the Terraform team's own planning/schedule.)

It is not likely that any new architectures will be officially supported before HashiConf in October, since all of the teams that would need to coordinate on this are occupied with other work.

[necrose99]

https://github.com/ascherer/debbuild also can use the spec ebuild rpm autogenerated.

app-admin/terraform-provider-libvirt
app-admin/terraform-provider-opennebula
wont yet build.

[arno01]

That would be useful, specifically for those running things like Samsung DeX.
Upd: arm 32-bit is working there just fine, have just tested it in Termux.
Upd2 you can build terraform directly on your Android device: CGO_ENABLED=1 GOOS=android GOARCH=arm64 go install ; this requires the latest osext to support android #19529

[vielmetti]

Ran into this again - any chance to update the build process to add one more architecture?

[vielmetti]

Just put in PR #21064 with the two-line patch to the build script that should make this work. (There's probably a documentation PR that will need to go in as well, but as a start...!)

[vielmetti]

A note that #21064 was closed as it was not sufficient to do what it requested here.

[vielmetti]

re-upping this issue for the new year

[ktham]

I'd love to be able to run terraform on my Surface Pro X through WSL2 (which runs Ubuntu on aarch64 ), but there's no arm64 build 😢 . Also note that MacOS is also moving to ARM64 soon. I understand terraform has a more complicated release process than consul or vault, but we may want to prioritize the groundwork needed for this sooner rather than later 🙏

[necrose99]

###Quick And dirty
https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/chaoslab/blob/master/app-admin/terraform/terraform-0.11.11.ebuild
(gentoo package , estially just bash scripts. eapi / more bash scripts/classes. )

results from above in RPM from good bit ago. terraform-0.11.8-r0.aarch64.zip

https://github.com/sakaki-/gentoo-on-rpi-64bit
an RPI3 or RPI4 32-gig or better Sd crad , 64 gigs meh i went 256 gig smasung long term wearing , I emerge ALOT..

layman -L && layman -a chaoslab
else eselect repository enable chaoslab

emerge -av app-shells/fish app-arch/alien
app-arch/alien , rpm dpkg etc will install with them .
ALEIN to make debs. or Slackware etc packages.
(emerge layman eselect-repository if required.)

###chaoslab added fish use dep.

cd /var/lib/layman/chaoslab/app-admin/terraform

or cd /var/db/repos/chaoslab/app-admin/terraform
(eselect repository / main gentoo repo hear too /var/db/repos)

ebuild terraform-0.11.11.ebuild {rpm,package,clean}
{rpm,package,merge.clean} merge will force add to gentoo host.. package reate gentoo binary package..

generation of rpmspec and aarch64 rpm /var/tmp/portage/app-admin/terraform...... vrsion etc RPMS , etc..
the non root demouser has thunar/xfce4 so bit of fishing..

##dh-make-golang
https://github.com/Debian/dh-make-golang created deps etc for Debian automatic packaging on **salsa. **
however bit less strait forward creates git repos , deb rules though however more involved..
however Teraform devs or Debian packagers can likewise add to autobuild.

[necrose99]

dh-make-golang-terraform.log.txt
remote host atm i need to reboot and or add ssh keys. web-console to ssh term bit limited.

https://carlosbecker.com/posts/nfpm/

https://github.com/google/rpmpack

https://github.com/mh-cbon/go-bin-rpm

[rymcol]

Given the impending release of Apple Silicon darwin_arm64 and the use case of android_arm64 on things like the fold2, for me personally, this would be a very high priority. I am happy to contribute as well if there are any places that make sense outside of the internal build/release cycle.

[danieldreier]

I wanted to draw everyone's attention to the fact that the latest beta has a linux arm64 build. Please try it out and let us know if you run into any issues with it!

[rymcol]

Seems to run okay on Ubuntu for arm64 for me.

Just my personal thoughts:
My biggest targets (personally) are really darwin_arm64 (because of the impending Apple silicon, which I'm sure you are working on) and android_arm64 (which I am unsure if you have plans for, however with devices like the fold2 being essentially a 5G portable terminal with an 8 inch screen, this would be massively useful in my Ops life).

Android is kinda-sorta-mostly linux. The linux_arm64 binary doesn't run correctly for me inside of Android (I get connection refused to our cloud storage backend), but if you directly checkout the v0.14 branch and build it with go it does work (aside from having no available plugins in the registry).

[apparentlymart]

Terraform CLI v0.14.0 is now available for linux_arm64 and we plan to continue to support that platform for the foreseeable future. As long as the providers you want to use also have linux_arm64 releases (which is true of several providers already) you should be able to use Terraform on arm64 Linux systems.

darwin_arm64 will probably follow in the not-too-distant future too, but for now I'd recommend using the darwin_amd64 builds under emulation on the new Apple hardware. As with linux_arm64, we must wait for a critical mass of providers to begin supporting the new platform before a Terraform CLI release on that platform would be useful, so we'll keep monitoring what the major providers are supporting and decide when to introduce darwin_arm64 support based on that.

We have no plans to support Android or any other operating systems on arm64 at this time.

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