Works on Arm cluster BOF
summary
Packet runs a WorksOnARM cluster offering bare metal arm64 nodes, weekly video office hours, a newsletter and Slack/IRC access; projects run native Debian and Yocto builds, Jenkins and container CI, and partner with Drone/Shippable/Codefresh for scheduled builds. Use cases include nightly GCC snapshots to catch compiler and OS regressions, a replicated Go bug tied to 64k page-size that broke Docker, and a multi-language port where a Calico port took six months to make all build systems multiarch. Newsletter ~250, Slack ~800–900.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to Works on Arm
- 1:53Project goals and progress
- 6:31Community experiences and use cases
- 10:10Nightly builds and CI systems
- 14:01Porting challenges and solutions
- 19:43Future directions and hardware diversity
- 26:16Community growth and resources
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