Multi-platform image with GitHub Actions — Build and load multi-platform images
The default Docker setup for GitHub Actions runners supports building and pushing multi-platform images to registries.
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The default Docker setup for GitHub Actions runners supports building and pushing multi-platform images to registries. However, it does not support loading multi-platform images to the local image store of the runner after building them. To load a multi-platform image locally, you need to enable the containerd image store option for the Docker Engine.
There is no way to configure the default Docker setup in the GitHub Actions runners directly, but you can use docker/setup-docker-action to customize the Docker Engine and CLI settings for a job.
The following example workflow enables the containerd image store, builds a multi-platform image, and loads the results into the GitHub runner's local image store.
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Docker Documentation — content/manuals/build/ci/github-actions/multi-platform.md :: Build and load multi-platform images ↗Revision 3a9d778562f3 · Apache-2.0