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What is this change about?

This adds ARM64 (linux/arm64) build support for the BOSH agent so it can run
on AWS Graviton and other ARM64 processors. It also publishes an ARM64 agent
binary, which the ARM64 stemcell build
(bosh-linux-stemcell-builder PR)
consumes to install the agent into an ARM64 stemcell.

The BOSH agent is pure Go with no cgo, so it cross-compiles cleanly for
linux/arm64 with zero source-code changes. The change is limited to build
scripts, the CI Docker image, and the pipeline.

Build + release (affects the published artifacts):

• bin/build-linux-arm64 — mirrors bin/build-linux-amd64 with GOARCH=arm64.
• ci/tasks/build-linux-arm64.yml — Concourse build task for linux/arm64.
• ci/pipeline.yml promote job — runs the arm64 build in the existing
  parallel build block and publishes compiled-linux-arm64/* alongside the
  existing amd64 and windows artifacts. The amd64 and windows build tasks and
  their published globs are unchanged; the arm64 build is a pure cross-compile
  (GOOS/GOARCH env) on the same amd64 worker, so it needs no ARM64 hardware.
  Note: this means once merged, every release also attaches a linux-arm64
  agent binary — that is the intended mechanism for publishing the ARM64 agent.

Regression guard:

• .github/workflows/go.yml — a cross-compile-linux-arm64 job that runs
  GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm64 CGO_ENABLED=0 go build ./... on every push/PR. It
  runs on a standard amd64 runner, so it needs no ARM64 hardware.

CI image (amd64 image installs the same tools from the same sources):

• ci/docker/Dockerfile is made arch-aware via BuildKit's TARGETARCH
  (declared without a default so BuildKit's platform value is not overridden;
  a build without BuildKit fails instead of installing the wrong binaries),
  with all deviation isolated to the arm64 path:
  • On amd64 the jq and credhub steps run the original commands verbatim
    (stedolan/jq jq-linux64; the credhub-linux-amd64 release tarball).
  • On arm64 jq comes from the maintained jqlang/jq (jq-linux-arm64;
    stedolan/jq is archived at 1.6 with no arm64 asset) and credhub is built
    from source at the pinned tag (credhub-cli publishes linux-amd64 releases
    only). The image already has the Go toolchain, so the source build is cheap.
  • GOLANG_RELEASE_IMAGE is a required build arg with no default. The amd64
    job passes the current golang-release:latest image explicitly and the
    arm64 job passes the latest-arm64 tag.
  • The bosh-cli download uses linux-${TARGETARCH}, which resolves to the
    identical linux-amd64 URL on amd64.
• ci/pipeline.yml:
  • The jq-github-release resource is unchanged (owner: stedolan); a
    separate jq-github-release-arm64 (owner: jqlang) feeds only the arm64
    image job via a get alias.
  • Adds a dormant build-docker-image-arm64 job and a test-unit-arm64 job
    (both tags: [arm64]), plus their -arm64 registry and
    golang-release-image-arm64 resources. These stay dormant until an
    arm64-tagged worker is registered (RFC D3) and the arm64 golang-release
    image is published.
  • The amd64 build-docker-image job now passes
    BUILD_ARG_GOLANG_RELEASE_IMAGE explicitly (the same
    golang-release:latest image it used before). The test-unit job and the
    jq-github-release resource are identical to main.

The existing live jobs modified are promote (gains the arm64 build task and
the compiled-linux-arm64/* publish glob, see above) and build-docker-image
(the explicit build arg above). All other amd64 jobs, resources, and published
amd64/windows artifacts are unchanged; everything else is additive.

Please provide contextual information.

• Part of RFC #1530 — ARM64 (aarch64) Architecture Support for Cloud Foundry:
  RFC: ARM64 (aarch64) Architecture Support for Cloud Foundry community#1530
• The RFC's proof-of-concept confirmed bosh-agent cross-compiles and executes
  on ARM64 with no source changes.
• This is a foundational PR in the ARM64 dependency chain (stemcell → agent +
  DNS → Director → …). The ARM64 stemcell PR depends on the linux-arm64 agent
  this PR publishes.
• The arm64 CI image and test-unit-arm64 are dormant: native ARM64 unit/
  integration runs require an ARM64 CI worker and the arm64 golang-release
  image, both tracked as RFC prerequisites (D3). This PR's regression coverage
  is the cross-compile guard, which runs on the standard amd64 runner.

What tests have you run against this PR?

Validated locally (Go 1.26):

• GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm64 CGO_ENABLED=0 go build ./... — full module
  cross-compiles (exit 0). This is exactly what the new cross-compile-linux-arm64
  CI job runs.
• GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 CGO_ENABLED=0 go build ./... — amd64 still builds
  (exit 0); no regression.
• ./bin/build-linux-arm64 — produces an ARM64 ELF.
• No Go source files are touched, so existing unit tests are unaffected.
• ci/pipeline.yml parses. Comparing the job and resource lists with main
  shows the only added jobs are build-docker-image-arm64 and
  test-unit-arm64, the only added resources are the arm64 ones plus
  ubuntu-image, and the only changed existing job is promote (plus the
  BUILD_ARG_GOLANG_RELEASE_IMAGE param on build-docker-image). No existing
  job or resource is removed.
• Built the CI image for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64. Both report the right
  architecture with working bosh, jq and credhub (the arm64 build used a
  stand-in Go 1.26 toolchain image, as golang-release:latest-arm64 is not
  published yet). A build without GOLANG_RELEASE_IMAGE fails immediately, and
  an unsupported TARGETARCH fails at the bosh-cli download.
• Shell scripts pass bash -n; all added/changed YAML parses.
• Verified against the live jqlang/jq release that the jq-linux-arm64 asset
  exists for the current tag (the arm64 image path).

How should this change be described in bosh-agent release notes?

The BOSH agent is now built and published for linux/arm64 in addition to
linux/amd64, enabling BOSH on ARM64 (e.g. AWS Graviton) hosts.

Does this PR introduce a breaking change?

No. ARM64 is additive. Existing x86_64 and Windows build targets and their
published artifacts are unchanged, and the amd64 CI image installs the same
tools from the same sources at the same pinned versions (only the arm64 path
uses jqlang/jq and a source-built credhub). The amd64 build-docker-image
job now passes its Go toolchain image explicitly, which is the image it used
before. No operator action is required.

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Walkthrough

The changes add Linux ARM64 build entry points and a cross-compilation workflow job. The Dockerfile selects architecture-specific tools and a configurable Go release image. The CI pipeline adds ARM64 image-build and unit-test jobs, publishes the ARM64 Docker image separately, and includes compiled ARM64 Linux artifacts in promotion.

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Merge Risk: Low · up to 70288

The ARM64 additions are mergeable with bounded follow-up: connect ARM64 unit tests to promotion when native workers become available so failed tests prevent publication.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 5f955

Separate image tags and architecture-specific filenames limit interference with existing releases. No introduced security vulnerability was established, but ARM64 worker isolation and external publication recovery remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The security-relevant scope is CI worker execution, published build images, and agent binaries distributed through the existing Git index and S3 mirror. The reviewed paths do not establish a new tenant-facing entrypoint or a broader IAM grant.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The new ARM64 worker pool receives privileged OCI build execution and credential-bearing resource operations using existing credential references. The AMD64 job already uses privileged OCI builds. Equivalent ARM64 worker isolation and effective credential scope are not demonstrated by the pipeline declaration.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Serialized promotion, separate architecture outputs, and the build-completion barrier limit publication conflicts. A failed or interrupted build can still leave version and Git-tag updates already committed, a pre-existing intermediate state. The external uploader's partial-failure atomicity, rerun behavior, downstream filtering, and cleanup ownership remain unverified.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Before enabling native ARM64 jobs, establish worker isolation and credential controls equivalent to existing CI. Immutable tool and image provenance checks, plus a documented publication-recovery procedure, would further reduce supply-chain and rollback uncertainty.

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The default TARGETARCH=amd64 overrides BuildKit’s target architecture, causing the ARM64 build to download BOSH, jq, and credhub binaries that cannot run natively on ARM64.

1 open issue

• Do not override BuildKit TARGETARCH on ARM64 builds · New

What changed in this PR

This PR adds Linux ARM64 build and release support for the BOSH agent, enabling ARM64 stemcells without changing Go source code.

Changes:

• Adds an ARM64 build script and Concourse task, and includes ARM64 binaries in release publication.
• Adds a GitHub Actions cross-compilation check on standard runners.
• Introduces architecture-aware CI image setup and native ARM64 image-build and unit-test jobs, pending ARM64 infrastructure.

File	Description
ci/​tasks/​build-linux-arm64.yml	Defines the ARM64 cross-compilation task and artifact output.
ci/​pipeline.yml	Adds ARM64 release artifacts, image resources, and native CI jobs.
ci/​docker/​Dockerfile	Adds architecture-specific tool installation and a configurable Go base image.
bin/​build-linux-arm64	Wraps the existing build script with Linux ARM64 settings.
.github/​workflows/​go.yml	Adds an ARM64 cross-compilation regression check.

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Minor · Remove the Go caches in the arm64 CredHub build step. · Dockerfile:65-67

ci/docker/Dockerfile:65-67
🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the Go caches in the arm64 CredHub build step.

The go build writes module and build caches into the image layer. rm -rf /tmp/credhub-cli does not remove them. Clear them in the same RUN step, before the layer is committed.

🐛 Suggested fix

              && ( cd /tmp/credhub-cli && go build \
                     -ldflags "-X code.cloudfoundry.org/credhub-cli/version.Version=${CREDHUB_CLI_VERSION}" \
-                    -o /usr/local/bin/credhub . ) \
+                    -o /usr/local/bin/credhub . \
+                 && go clean -cache -modcache ) \
              && rm -rf /tmp/credhub-cli ;; \

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Add Go cache cleanup to the arm64 CredHub build step in the Dockerfile’s `go
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The new ARM64 source-build branch executes the Go toolchain copied from GOLANG_RELEASE_IMAGE. An ARM64 Docker build using the default Go image may fail if that image contains only AMD64 executables; unlike the supplied pipeline job, a standalone build need not override the image argument.

The CredHub go build fails with an executable-format error, so the ARM64 image cannot be built through that entry point.

This can occur when: A caller builds the Dockerfile for linux/arm64 without supplying GOLANG_RELEASE_IMAGE, and the default Go release image contains AMD64 binaries.

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5912352 removes the TARGETARCH default (Copilot), cleans the Go caches after the arm64 credhub build (CodeRabbit), and trims the RFC and "dormant" narration from the comments. That narration is covered by the description, and comments like it make merge-forwards harder.
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Gate arm64 publication on test-unit-arm64 once its worker exists.

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Gate arm64 publication on test-unit-arm64 once its worker exists.

promote waits only on bosh-integration-tests for bosh-agent. It publishes compiled-linux-arm64/* whatever the result of test-unit-arm64. Add test-unit-arm64 to that passed list after the arm64 worker is registered. Adding it earlier blocks promote while the job waits for a worker.

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           - get: bosh-agent
             trigger: true
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               - bosh-integration-tests
+              - test-unit-arm64

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Update the `promote` job’s `bosh-agent` dependency to require `test-unit-arm64`
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It might be nice to apply a similar matrix patters in this GH action as in https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-dns-release/pull/184/changes