We’re starting to think about this, but I’m not aware of anyone in the Open edX community who has an Apple Silicon Mac yet to test it out. You could try running the existing x86 images in a recent Docker for Mac release and they should work thanks to qemu integration, but they might be a bit slow and/or unstable. It’s hopefully not too hard to tweak our existing image build process to also upload suitable ARM images, but it would be useful to have appropriate hardware available to make sure they work correctly.
Relevant Docker docs and blog posts:
- Docker Desktop for Apple Silicon
- Roadmap announcement, 2020-11-16 - Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker - Docker Blog
- Tech preview, 2020-12-16 - Download and Try the Tech Preview of Docker Desktop for M1 - Docker Blog
- Second preview, 2021-02-17 - New Docker Desktop Preview for Apple M1 Released - Docker Blog
- General release, 2021-04-17 - Released: Docker Desktop for Mac [Apple Silicon] - Docker Blog
- Building multi-architecture Docker images - Multi-arch build and images, the simple way - Docker Blog