Build and Deploy Multi-Architecture Graviton Container Images for Spring Boot Microservices

A step-by-step guide on graviton image building and deployment on ECS Fargate

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Multi-Architecture Image

A multi-architecture container image is built to run on multiple architectures, such as x86, ARM (Advanced RISC Machine), and others. This allows the image to be run on various devices, including laptops, servers, and embedded devices.

There are several benefits to using multi-architecture container images:

1. Portability: multi-architecture image allows you to build your application once and run it on any device that supports the container runtime without the need to rebuild the image for each architecture.
2. Compatibility: If you have a large user base that uses various devices, a multi-architecture image can ensure that your application is compatible with all those devices.
3. Performance: Multi-architecture images can be optimized to run efficiently on different architectures, which can improve the performance of your application.
4. Cost saving: Per AWS’s announcement on Graviton2 Support for AWS Fargate in November of 2021:

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