Architecture-aware container image builds in deploy workflows

[sylvainsf]

Description

Radius.Compute/containerImages builds run in an in-cluster BuildKit that is compiled for the runner's architecture (amd64 on standard GitHub-hosted runners). When an app leaves build.platforms unset, the recipe defaults to a multi-arch build (linux/amd64,linux/arm64), so the arm64 half is produced under QEMU emulation, which is roughly an order of magnitude slower and prone to emulation crashes (see the analysis on #12595). This PR lets the Azure and AWS deploy workflows build only the platform(s) the target cluster actually runs, while preserving multi-arch when it is genuinely needed.

This is the upstream half of the contract in radius-project/ai-extensions#300.

Contract

Two template placeholders on the Azure and AWS run-rad-commands workflows, rendered by the extension:

Placeholder	Extension default
{{TARGET_CLUSTER_ARCH_MODE}}	${{ vars.RADIUS_BUILD_ARCH_MODE || 'detect' }}
{{TARGET_CLUSTER_ARCH_FALLBACK_PLATFORMS}}	${{ vars.RADIUS_BUILD_PLATFORMS || 'linux/amd64,linux/arm64' }}

Behavior

Resolved by compute-build-platforms.sh, invoked by the shared run-rad-commands action after the target kubeconfig is configured and before the app is built/deployed:

Mode	Cluster	Result
detect	single-arch	build that one platform (no emulation)
detect	mixed / undetermined	fallback platform list
explicit list (contains /, e.g. linux/amd64)	n/a	honored verbatim, no detection
empty / unsubstituted placeholder	n/a	feature off, recipe default applies (existing behavior)

The computed list is exported as RADIUS_EFFECTIVE_BUILD_PLATFORMS and injected as --parameters platforms=<list> only when the app declares a platforms parameter and it was not already supplied via RADIUS_DEPLOY_PARAMS, flowing through the same conditional path as the existing app-image parameter. Apps that do not declare platforms, and templates that do not render the placeholders, are unaffected.

Mixed-arch is a first-class outcome, not an error. A cluster with both amd64 and arm64 nodes resolves to the fallback multi-arch list so images stay portable; only single-arch clusters drop to a single platform to skip emulation.

Design notes

• Kept the contract small and explicit. Recognized modes are detect, an explicit platform list, or empty/placeholder (off). An unrecognized keyword fails safe to the fallback list with a warning, documented in the workflow and script comments.
• Detection uses kubectl get nodes -o jsonpath=...nodeInfo.architecture; a failed probe degrades to empty, which the resolver treats as "undetermined" and maps to the fallback.
• No Radius runtime/CLI changes; this is entirely in the deploy workflow templates, the shared composite action, and a helper script.

Testing

• make test-build-platforms — new compute-build-platforms_test.sh: mode/detection/override/fallback matrix (single-arch, mixed-arch, unknown-arch, x86_64/aarch64 aliases, normalization, unrecognized mode), plus assertions that both workflows carry the placeholders and wire the inputs, and that the action declares the inputs and runs the helper.
• make test-run-rad-commands-action — extended deploy-parameters_test.sh: platforms is injected only when declared, skipped when no effective list was computed, and never overrides a RADIUS_DEPLOY_PARAMS-supplied value.
• shellcheck clean on all shell; all three modified YAML files parse.

Files

File	Change
.github/extension/actions/run-rad-commands/compute-build-platforms.sh	New: resolves effective build platforms from mode/fallback/detected arches
.github/extension/actions/run-rad-commands/compute-build-platforms_test.sh	New: unit + wiring tests
.github/extension/actions/run-rad-commands/action.yml	New build-arch-mode / build-fallback-platforms inputs; detection step exporting RADIUS_EFFECTIVE_BUILD_PLATFORMS
.github/extension/actions/run-rad-commands/deploy-parameters.sh	Inject platforms when the app declares it and a list was computed
.github/extension/actions/run-rad-commands/deploy-parameters_test.sh	Coverage for the injection
.github/extension/run-rad-commands-azure.yml / -aws.yml	Placeholders + pass the two inputs to run-rad-commands
build/test.mk	test-build-platforms target, added to test

Related

• radius-project/ai-extensions#300
• rad deploy can run for hours without timing out #12595

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the shared run-rad-commands deploy workflows/actions to compute an effective container image build platform list based on the target cluster’s node architectures, so single-arch clusters avoid slow/flaky QEMU-emulated multi-arch builds while mixed/undetermined clusters keep the multi-arch fallback.

Changes:

• Add compute-build-platforms.sh (and tests) to resolve effective build platforms from mode/fallback/detected arches.
• Wire new build-arch-mode / build-fallback-platforms inputs through the composite action and Azure/AWS workflow templates.
• Inject --parameters platforms=... only when the app declares platforms and it’s not already provided via RADIUS_DEPLOY_PARAMS; add Make/test coverage.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
build/test.mk	Adds test-build-platforms and includes it in make test.
.github/extension/run-rad-commands-azure.yml	Adds template placeholders and passes arch inputs to the shared action.
.github/extension/run-rad-commands-aws.yml	Adds template placeholders and passes arch inputs to the shared action.
.github/extension/actions/run-rad-commands/action.yml	Declares new inputs and adds a step to detect/compute/export RADIUS_EFFECTIVE_BUILD_PLATFORMS.
.github/extension/actions/run-rad-commands/compute-build-platforms.sh	New platform resolver script (mode/fallback/detect logic).
.github/extension/actions/run-rad-commands/compute-build-platforms_test.sh	New unit + wiring tests for resolver/workflows/action.
.github/extension/actions/run-rad-commands/deploy-parameters.sh	Injects platforms parameter when applicable.
.github/extension/actions/run-rad-commands/deploy-parameters_test.sh	Adds coverage for platforms injection behavior.

Suppressed comments (2)

.github/extension/actions/run-rad-commands/action.yml:113

• This currently suppresses kubectl errors and can hide useful diagnostics (RBAC, connectivity, etc.). Prefer letting stderr through while still degrading to empty ARCHES via || true. Also avoid echo "$ARCHES" in command substitution (it can mangle backslashes); use printf instead.

            ARCHES=$(kubectl --kubeconfig "$TARGET_KUBECONFIG" get nodes \
              -o jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{.status.nodeInfo.architecture}{"\n"}{end}' \
              2>/dev/null || true)
            echo "Detected target cluster node architectures: $(echo "$ARCHES" | tr '\n' ' ')"

.github/extension/actions/run-rad-commands/compute-build-platforms.sh:66

• sort is locale-dependent; without pinning the locale, the "sorted (deterministic) order" guarantee can vary across runner images/locales. Set LC_ALL=C for stable collation.

        sort -u |

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[sylvainsf]

Thanks for the review. Addressed in bd0005c.

• set -u on the kubeconfig assignment (action.yml L106/L110): Fixed. TARGET_KUBECONFIG now default-expands ${RADIUS_TARGET_KUBECONFIG:-}, so an unset value no longer trips set -u before the empty case is handled; detect mode degrades cleanly to the fallback when no kubeconfig is present.
• Malformed MODE contract header comment: Fixed. Rewrote the block so the bullets and parenthesis are well-formed.
• stderr capture in the test (L71): This one is a false positive, so I left it. The idiom "$(cmd 2>&1 >/dev/null)" is the correct order for "capture stderr, discard stdout": 2>&1 first points fd2 at the command-substitution capture (currently fd1), then >/dev/null redirects fd1 only. Reversing to >/dev/null 2>&1 would discard both. The test asserts the warning is captured and it passes, which confirms stderr is captured.

The corerp-cloud functional failure is unrelated to this change (this PR only touches the extension workflow YAML, the shared composite action, and a helper script; that lane does not exercise run-rad-commands). Rebasing on main will re-trigger it.

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Name	Value
Repository	radius-project/radius
Commit ref	bd55a5b
Unique ID	funcbb0f8e1896
Image tag	pr-funcbb0f8e1896

• Dapr: 1.14.4
• Azure KeyVault CSI driver: 1.4.2
• Azure Workload identity webhook: 1.3.0
• Bicep recipe location ghcr.io/radius-project/dev/test/testrecipes/test-bicep-recipes/<name>:pr-funcbb0f8e1896
• Terraform recipe location http://tf-module-server.radius-test-tf-module-server.svc.cluster.local/<name>.zip (in cluster)
• applications-rp test image location: ghcr.io/radius-project/dev/applications-rp:pr-funcbb0f8e1896
• dynamic-rp test image location: ghcr.io/radius-project/dev/dynamic-rp:pr-funcbb0f8e1896
• controller test image location: ghcr.io/radius-project/dev/controller:pr-funcbb0f8e1896
• ucp test image location: ghcr.io/radius-project/dev/ucpd:pr-funcbb0f8e1896
• deployment-engine test image location: ghcr.io/radius-project/deployment-engine:latest

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⌛ Building Radius and pushing container images for functional tests...
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