Support for Apple Silicon

[TravisDart]

Currently all of the Redis Cluster images are for amd64, but these won't run in Mac arm64 environments. Can we get also get builds for Apple Silicon Macs?

[niemyjski]

This would be nice, and or adding additional maintainers, I'd be happy to help contribute where I can. We really need redis support for 8.2 and latest. The bitnami cluster images are not even available, which is going to drive more traffic here

[Grokzen]

I did not continue to publish newer versions due to all the license things in 8.0 if I remember. I have not visited it or read up what's going on today tho.

[niemyjski]

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/redis_redux/

[Grokzen]

Currently all of the Redis Cluster images are for amd64, but these won't run in Mac arm64 environments. Can we get also get builds for Apple Silicon Macs?

My general stance for other platforms have always been that since I don't own that platform I can't build and develop for it before publishing anything. Only to trust in github-ci for my only feedback is not a general thing I do. Adding in maintainers rn is not something that I would consider. Accepting MR:s opens up same risk as point 1 with random support for things I can't support myself in the future. Is linking to a fork that would bear the support needs be an option? I am not against linking to more niche and specialized forks that would maintain Mac versions.

[TravisDart]

Thanks for the reply. A fork would be fine, but there isn't even one of those that I can find. Then we could select the image using an ARG in the Dockerfile. It's a little more complexity, but not a dealbreaker (for me, at least).

ARG BASE_IMG
FROM $BASE_IMG

[niemyjski]

Wouldn't adding tests and have them run under ubuntu-arm prove it's working. I get your stance but I think the community would be happy to have something rather than nothing even if you say it's experimental I'd love to have arm as we target only arm and all dev machines are arm. Again thanks for your time and project.

[TravisDart]

Inspired by the comment above, I created a fork of this repo and changed the Dockerfile to use an arm64 base image. It works for me with no problem.

Building this myself is a little more work, so obviously my first choice is to have arm64 support built in. But, at least I have some kind of solution now.

[TravisDart]

Testing this more thoroughly, the arm version also requires populating locale.gen, i.e. echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen. I also added pkg-config to suppress a different error, but from what I read, I think pkg-config is optional.