Docker on Mac M1 gives: "The requested image's platform (linux/amd64) does not match the detected host platform"

Question

I want to run a docker container for Ganache on my MacBook M1, but get the following error:

The requested image's platform (linux/amd64) does not match the detected host platform (linux/arm64/v8) and no specific platform was requested

After this line nothing else will happen anymore and the whole process is stuck, although the qemu-system-aarch64 is running on 100% CPU according to Activity Monitor until I press CTRL+C.

My docker-files come from this repository. After running into the same issues there I tried to isolate the root cause and came up with the smallest setup that will run into the same error.

This is the output of docker-compose up --build:

Building ganache
Sending build context to Docker daemon  196.6kB
Step 1/17 : FROM trufflesuite/ganache-cli:v6.9.1
 ---> 40b011a5f8e5
Step 2/17 : LABEL Unlock <[email protected]>
 ---> Using cache
 ---> aad8a72dac4e
Step 3/17 : RUN apk add --no-cache git openssh bash
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 4ca6312438bd
Step 4/17 : RUN apk add --no-cache   python   python-dev   py-pip   build-base   && pip install virtualenv
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 0be290f541ed
Step 5/17 : RUN npm install -g [email protected]
 ---> Using cache
 ---> d906d229a768
Step 6/17 : RUN npm install -g yarn
 ---> [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 991c1d804fdf

docker-compose.yml:

version: '3.2'
services:
  ganache:
    restart: always
    build:
      context: ./development
      dockerfile: ganache.dockerfile
    env_file: ../.env.dev.local
    ports:
      - 8545:8545

  ganache-standup:
    image: ganache-standup
    build:
      context: ./development
      dockerfile: ganache.dockerfile
    env_file: ../.env.dev.local
    entrypoint: ['node', '/standup/prepare-ganache-for-unlock.js']
    depends_on:
      - ganache

ganache.dockerfile:

The ganache.dockerfile can be found here.

Running the whole project on an older iMac with Intel-processor works fine.

Answer 1

If you're planning to run the image in your laptop, you need to build it for the cpu architecture of that particular machine. You can provide the --platform option to docker build (or even to docker-compose) to define the target platform you want to build the image for.

For example:

docker build --platform linux/amd64  .

Answer 2

With docker-compose you also have the platform option.

version: "2.4"
services:
  zookeeper:
    image: confluentinc/cp-zookeeper:7.1.1
    hostname: zookeeper
    container_name: zookeeper
    platform: linux/amd64
    ports:
      - "2181:2181"