Pipelines do not work on ARM systems (e.g. Macbooks with M1/M2)

Have you checked the docs?

• nf-core website: troubleshooting
• nf-core modules documentation

Description of the bug

The biocontainers images only support amd64 images (Intel/AMD CPUs) and thus, running pipelines on those machines will fail with an error similar to this one:

WARNING: The requested image's platform (linux/amd64) does not match the
         detected host platform (linux/arm64/v8) and no specific platform was requested

Reason being that images are just build for amd64 and no option is given to also pick an ARM image:

$ manifest-tool inspect quay.io/biocontainers/blast:2.13.0--hf3cf87c_0
quay.io/biocontainers/blast:2.13.0--hf3cf87c_0: manifest type: application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json
      Digest: sha256:221b0ab5540cf7c4013b51b60b2c66113104a5b700611d411ae25eb5904f78d8
Architecture: amd64
          OS: linux
    # Layers: 3
      layer 1: digest = sha256:73349e34840e6f54750ec5df84f447c2a01df267a601af1ca0ee7dffed8715f3
      layer 2: digest = sha256:acab339ca1e8ed7aefa2b4c271176a7787663685bf8759f5ce69b40e4bd7ef86
      layer 3: digest = sha256:1a4ef5ea54c9a0c4cd84005215beddb4745c86663945d9ac7b11ea42f237cd1f

Since the quay.io/biocontainers repository is hard-coded in Nextflow it is hard to select different images from other repositories.

Blast-Example

This also applies to the blast-example.

$ docker run -ti --rm nextflow/examples
WARNING: The requested image's platform (linux/amd64) does not match the detected host platform (linux/arm64/v8) and no specific platform was requested
root@1b9d4420be97:/#

This blast command below just hangs forever, since the blastp command is an x86_64 binary.

$ file /opt/ncbi-blast-2.2.29+/bin/blastp
/opt/ncbi-blast-2.2.29+/bin/blastp: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped

Command used and terminal output

$ ./nextflow run blast-example -with-docker
N E X T F L O W  ~  version 22.04.5
Launching `https://github.com/nextflow-io/blast-example` [drunk_kalam] DSL2 - revision: c7e4282e26 [master]
executor >  local (1)
[27/4b2770] process > blast (1) [  0%] 0 of 1
[-        ] process > extract   -

Relevant files

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System information

Macbook Pro (Apple Silicon - M1 Max)