[FEATURE] Switch backend container to Graviton

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[FEATURE] Switch backend container to Graviton #383

Closed zganger closed 5 months ago

zganger commented 6 months ago

Graviton performs better and consumes less power and therefore costs 20% less than intel systems. We can adopt it for our backend containers.

Steps:

add --platform=linux/arm64 to docker builds in GitHub actions
- https://github.com/kciter/aws-ecr-action - using the extra_build_args option
update the ECR task role to use graviton/ linux ARM hosts to run the jobs
merge and deploy

zganger commented 6 months ago

note: we could consider on Frontend containers as well but I haven't tested. That could be a separate issue if we like this.

mikeyavorsky commented 6 months ago

Doesn't work without arm64 Github Actions runner (currently in private beta?)

zganger commented 5 months ago

This has been resolved by using qemu in actions to build. We could probably speed it up a little bit when the arm64 actions runner comes out, but until then this can be closed as done.