Running action with custom image fails randomly with "No such image" error

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Description

In order to avoid dockerhub ratelimiting issues, I wanted to change the image being used in setup buildx.

I'm running multi platform builds for my docker images for both amd64 and arm64 architectures.
Each build runs on a Self hosted GitHub Runner with the relevant architecture.

When using the action with a custom image:

- name: Set up Docker Buildx
        id: buildx
        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
        with:
          platforms: ${{ matrix.platform }}
          driver-opts: |
            image=public.ecr.aws/blinkit/moby/buildkit:v0.13.1

It doesn't always find the image with the following error:

Run docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
Docker info
Buildx version
Inspecting default docker context
Creating a new builder instance
Booting builder
Error: ERROR: Error response from daemon: No such image: public.ecr.aws/blinkit/moby/buildkit:v0.13.1

When fetching the manifest for public.ecr.aws/blinkit/moby/buildkit:v0.13.1 it has both architectures included:

docker manifest inspect public.ecr.aws/blinkit/moby/buildkit:v0.13.1                                                                                (production-eu-cluster-1)
{
   "schemaVersion": 2,
   "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.index.v1+json",
   "manifests": [
      {
         "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
         "size": 1054,
         "digest": "sha256:42a35accfe38387e58ec1ac4701ae340223c268c3d849b1c8070f0f62b0eca25",
         "platform": {
            "architecture": "amd64",
            "os": "linux"
         }
      },
      {
         "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
         "size": 1054,
         "digest": "sha256:f91de562e22f9d7e7f15efcbabf61ffcbc44a95b0b87a19b9696d900280448e8",
         "platform": {
            "architecture": "arm",
            "os": "linux",
            "variant": "v7"
         }
      },
      {
         "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
         "size": 1054,
         "digest": "sha256:1573eb38e4dc6c72a582ccebea1ddc7b0c4b70bb14b5333ed8cbdb85c19942b7",
         "platform": {
            "architecture": "arm64",
            "os": "linux"
         }
      },
      {
         "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
         "size": 1054,
         "digest": "sha256:798fc4f7c3ead9025b5d14c3f8a2f08a34a693bd0184677f4b4f2f6f6eed7e6d",
         "platform": {
            "architecture": "s390x",
            "os": "linux"
         }
      },
      {
         "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
         "size": 1054,
         "digest": "sha256:0c8756b6c23c39484ae7ef7bd8f85dc2181a6dbbb5936aafaf5dcbcd1dc76609",
         "platform": {
            "architecture": "ppc64le",
            "os": "linux"
         }
      },
      {
         "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
         "size": 1054,
         "digest": "sha256:3721978d7e0291ef27ff22aaffaf0097060c84365cd76bcf61f3dfa326cf893c",
         "platform": {
            "architecture": "riscv64",
            "os": "linux"
         }
      },
      {
         "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
         "size": 1113,
         "digest": "sha256:821ca4eeed8561ab47c08bff04b1c5ff657912efc4ce36ad90dbe8b05e71f227",
         "platform": {
            "architecture": "unknown",
            "os": "unknown"
         }
      },
      {
         "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
         "size": 1113,
         "digest": "sha256:64034e0f70cad95772c36fadd4a1a114fbd6463f041ea0dd3b0880107acdea9c",
         "platform": {
            "architecture": "unknown",
            "os": "unknown"
         }
      },
      {
         "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
         "size": 1113,
         "digest": "sha256:c3ef100d291ef8c41f0082ed6468219fd74835677afd4f7072b4357b8c472382",
         "platform": {
            "architecture": "unknown",
            "os": "unknown"
         }
      },
      {
         "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
         "size": 1113,
         "digest": "sha256:d7ee33af4679e9f3c706aa474cbc9945d839f5ea44f939bf3f8952111079d16c",
         "platform": {
            "architecture": "unknown",
            "os": "unknown"
         }
      },
      {
         "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
         "size": 1113,
         "digest": "sha256:88cf103b4a83ba07a92fa444397ad393c116fab8a29364b540bc6edd8839dcef",
         "platform": {
            "architecture": "unknown",
            "os": "unknown"
         }
      },
      {
         "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
         "size": 1113,
         "digest": "sha256:d5b7d4ae1d989a056921aa81145e118ada1d1b55331fc1855c64de4988587b41",
         "platform": {
            "architecture": "unknown",
            "os": "unknown"
         }
      }
   ]
}

Expected behaviour

When using a custom image it should always find the image if it exists

Actual behaviour

I get the error specific above

Repository URL

No response

Workflow run URL

No response

YAML workflow

- name: Set up Docker Buildx
  uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
  with:
    platforms: ${{ matrix.platform }}
    driver-opts: |
      image=public.ecr.aws/blinkit/moby/buildkit:v0.13.1

Workflow logs

Run docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
Docker info
Buildx version
Inspecting default docker context
Creating a new builder instance
Booting builder
Error: ERROR: Error response from daemon: No such image: public.ecr.aws/blinkit/moby/buildkit:v0.13.1

BuildKit logs

Additional info

No response

Start by reproducing the setup-buildx-action@v3 workflow with the custom driver-opts image on both amd64 and arm64 self-hosted runners. Investigate how the action creates and boots the builder, then verify the fix against the reported intermittent “No such image” failure and both architectures.