[Tracking] Provider compiled for darwin/arm64

[skyzyx]

Important Factoids

Apple M1 chip is here. Porting work is occurring for everyone. Opening a tracking ticket to provide public visibility on the work.

References

Are there any other GitHub issues (open or closed) or Pull Requests that should be linked here? For example:

• runtime: tracking bug for ARM-based macOS and GOOS/GOARCH values golang/go#38485
• darwin/arm64 build hashicorp/terraform#27257
• Apple Silicon (M1) darwin_arm64 Support hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws#16948
• [Tracking] Provider compiled for darwin/arm64 newrelic-client-go#660

[jthurman42]

Hopefully, this should just work once Go 1.16 is released (the beta has native M1 support). Only action item on our side would be to update the compile validation matrix

[skyzyx]

That was my guess, but I didn't want to assume anything.

I'm also guessing that we would need a native build of Terraform upstream as well, although maybe not if it's all gRPC communication.

But there are some reports of Terraform having issues under Rosetta 2, so perhaps that's something to validate as well.

[skyzyx]

Status update: Go 1.16 was released today with non-prerelease, first-class support for darwin/arm64.

[jthurman42]

I stand corrected. The build pipeline is currently unhappy with Darwin ARM64, so it's been disabled until we can resolve the issues. The goreleaser config will need to be updated once the build problems have been resolved.

[skyzyx]

The build pipeline is currently unhappy with Darwin ARM64[…]

Is this related to GoReleaser for darwin/arm64, or another issue?

[jthurman42]

Starting with v2.19.1, Darwin arm64 releases are build automatically as part of the release process.