The Challenge

Developing open-source software for deployment on Arm64 architecture requires a robust continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) environment. Yet, there has historically been a disparity between the levels of support for Arm64 and traditional x86 processor architectures, with Arm64 usually at a disadvantage. Developers of infrastructure components for multiple architectures have certain expectations of their work environments:

Consistency of the tools and methods they use across platforms, so they don’t have to adopt different development procedures just to adopt a less prevalent platform.
Performance from their platforms and support mechanisms, so their deployment schemes don’t suffer from speed deficiency when they choose to support multiple platforms.
Testing coverage so the very same tests for efficiency, compliance, and security apply to all platforms simultaneously and without substantial differentiation.
Maintainability, enabling developers to automate their integration and redevelopment processes so they apply to all platforms without alteration.

Product managers for these same components have these same requirements, plus at least two more: