# 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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## Knowledge

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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.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```yaml
name: ci

on:
  push:

jobs:
  docker:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Set up Docker
        uses: docker/setup-docker-action@{{% param "setup_docker_action_version" %}}
        with:
          daemon-config: |
            {
              "debug": true,
              "features": {
                "containerd-snapshotter": true
              }
            }

      - name: Login to Docker Hub
        uses: docker/login-action@{{% param "login_action_version" %}}
        with:
          username: ${{ vars.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}

      - name: Set up QEMU
        uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@{{% param "setup_qemu_action_version" %}}

      - name: Build and push
        uses: docker/build-push-action@{{% param "build_push_action_version" %}}
        with:
          platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64
          load: true
```

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