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ARM Docker Containers on x64

System Requirements

sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf libc6-dev-armhf-cross qemu-user-static qemu-system-arm qemu-arm-static qemu-user

TL;DR - Multi-Arch

This is the command that Docker provides to register qemu handlers with binfmt to ensure it knows how to deal with ARM etc.

docker run --rm --privileged docker/binfmt:820fdd95a9972a5308930a2bdfb8573dd4447ad3

TL;DR

The following container run command will set up bunch of stuff needed to run ARM containers on x64 CPUs using qemu.

docker run --rm --privileged hypriot/qemu-register

This is the same approach built into Docker Desktop for macOS and Windows

Source: Docker Engine on Intel Linux runs Arm Containers - Hypriot Blog