Devcontainer on Mac with Apple Silicon fails due to no AARCH64 support in Azure Functions Core Tools

[MarkWme]

Running the dev container locally on a Mac with Apple Silicon will fail during the build of the container. The error will be similar to the following:

6.133 E: Unable to locate package azure-functions-core-tools
6.135 ERROR: Feature "Azure Functions Core Tools" (ghcr.io/
[2023-08-15T11:13:12.890Z] jlaundry/devcontainer-features/azure-functions-core-tools) failed to install! Look at the documentation at https://github.com/devcontainers/features/tree/main/src/azure-functions-core-tools for help troubleshooting this error.

This is because there is currently no official release of Azure Functions Core Tools that supports installation inside of a container when running on Apple Silicon:

jlaundry/devcontainer-features#7

Azure/azure-functions-core-tools#3112

[EverybodyKurts]

Almost 2 months later... is there any update? Thanks for any info.

[MarkWme]

I saw that there is now official support for Azure Functions on Apple silicon, so I'm hoping this is now fixed. I will take a look over the next few days.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-azure-functions-support-on-apple-silicon-macs/

[MiguelElGallo]

Facing same issue.

[sebafo]

This is sadly not fixed. For the devcontainer we need a Linux AARCH64 version, but it is not available yet.
Azure/azure-functions-core-tools#3112

[robinmanuelthiel]

When commenting out the Azure Function Tools in .devcontainer/devcontainer.json, the Dev Container starts in Apple Silicon.

// "ghcr.io/jlaundry/devcontainer-features/azure-functions-core-tools:1": {
//     "version": "latest"
// }

The question is: Do we need the function tools at all? I don't see the any Azure Functions stuff anymore in the repo. @MarkWme can't we just remove this?

[MarkWme]

I have been thinking the same. I'm planning to review the whole repo again in the next week or so, so I'll take a look at this then and see if we can just remove this now.