Hi Brian,

thanks for reaching out!

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 12:27 AM Brian Fallik <bfallik@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I've been actively following the work to package Podman for Debian for eventual installation on my raspberry pi nodes. I noticed the installation docs recommended using the Kubic project packaging and so I used that to successfully (and easily!) install podman on my raspi. Hooray!

Once Podman is in the main repositories of Debian, we will recommend using the packages from there.

However now I'm having trouble pulling arm images. All my attempts result in amd64:
# podman pull coredns/coredns:latest
Trying to pull docker.io/coredns/coredns:latest...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob c6568d217a00 done
Copying blob 89d2da39cc12 done
Copying config b52ee75a77 done
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
b52ee75a7749dc470ec4dacf990c26733c1477371f190e2748d653b8834c3f48
# podman image inspect b52ee75a7749d | jq '.[0].Architecture'
"amd64"
and then again with override-arch:
# podman image rm b52ee75a7749d
Untagged: docker.io/coredns/coredns:latest
Deleted: b52ee75a7749dc470ec4dacf990c26733c1477371f190e2748d653b8834c3f48
# podman pull --override-arch=arm coredns/coredns:latest
Trying to pull docker.io/coredns/coredns:latest...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob c6568d217a00 done
Copying blob 89d2da39cc12 done
Copying config b52ee75a77 done
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
b52ee75a7749dc470ec4dacf990c26733c1477371f190e2748d653b8834c3f48
# podman image inspect b52ee75a7749d | jq '.[0].Architecture'
"amd64"

podman info:
# podman version
Version: 1.8.0
RemoteAPI Version: 1
Go Version: go1.11.6
OS/Arch: linux/arm

Any tips on how to convince podman to pull arm images within rasbian?

You have done everything correctly and you actually pulled the coredns image for ARM but the config of the image claims to be for AMD64. In other words, the coredns images have a bug as the image configs claim to be of a different architecture. But that shouldn't be a problem as you can still run them with Podman. This seems to be a fairly common issue (see the Kubernetes pause image [1]).

For a detailed look you can use skopeo and inspect the images on the registry:

$ skopeo inspect --raw docker://docker.io/coredns/coredns:latest | jq .

... we can see that the manifest list includes images for a couple of architectures. Let's pick the ARM one and inspect it by referencing it via its digest.

$ skopeo inspect docker://docker.io/coredns/coredns@sha256:a8be13d1f9fbd24d75dbc2013bb37f810cd1aa217d135173dab6cdbef652485e|jq .| grep Architecture
"Architecture": "amd64",

... just as you described. The ARM image claims to be for AMD64.

Kind regards,

Valentin

[1] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/87325