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Something really annoying about this is that for some reason docker can't seem to easily switch platforms for base images. If you have an x64 base image and try to run an arm64 image on top, it'll complain. Why doesn't it just download the right version automatically instead of forcing me to solve it? Seems like there are still some rough edges here.

> : If you add `platform: "linux/amd64"` to your docker-compose (there's also a similar command for Dockerfile iirc), it just gets the x64 images and emulates those.

I've never seen docker crash until I did this.

Afaict, this is the default behaviour? If there is no arm specific image it just tries the x86-64 image which is then emulated. With docker 4 and podman at least.