Congratulations to Stackable for GAing Arm64 support for their data platform recently!
We have been talking to them for a while, and it’s great to see their work come to fruition. Back in March, Maxi Wittich wrote about their status at that point - even then, a few things jumped out for me:
We have been working hard to port the Stackable Data Platform to ARM64. Initially, we released manually built ARM64 images. With the 23.11.0 release we reached a point where we could test and develop on a bare-metal ARM cluster. So far, we’ve been using ARM-based instances on Azure, and going forward, we’re working with HPE, who has graciously provided us with resources to build and test Stackable Data Platform on multiple architectures using their brand new and powerful Ampere-based hardware.
Maxi has since shared that the building/porting process was straightforward, but time consuming, and we talked about best practices for Arm64 GitHub Actions Runners - and there has been quite a bit of news recently around that too since then!
In fact, you can hear more about Stackable’s journey soon on an Ampere Developer Impact interview, and direct from Maxi at the Ampere Developer Summit.