Application containers with Docker are typically used on x86_64 (also known as AMD64) machines. If you are only targeting this platform, you have nothing to worry about. However, if you are developing IoT, embedded, or edge applications, you may be interested in multi-architecture images.
Since Docker is available on many different CPU architectures, there are several ways to approach image management on multiple platforms.
One way to handle images built for different targets is by using the image tags to describe a particular platform. Instead of merchant:v2.0.3, we could have merchant:v2.0.3-aarch64. Although this approach may seem to be the easiest to implement, it is, in fact, a bit problematic.
Not only do you have to change the build process to include the architecture in the tagging process. When pulling the images to run them, you will also have to take care to manually append the expected suffix everywhere. If you are using an orchestrator...
