Publish amd64 first, then arm64, on a builder that keeps its cache

Two release builds side by side on one machine each take twice as long,
and production only needs amd64. publish-amd64 now pushes :<version> as
soon as the amd64 build is done; publish-arm64 builds arm64 afterwards,
then replaces :<version> with the two-platform index and moves :latest.

Both jobs use one named BuildKit builder whose container outlives the
job, so the dependency layer (cargo chef cook) is reused until the
dependencies change. The release is created after amd64; the binaries
are attached once arm64 is in.

.gitea/workflows/publish.yml

@@ -3,11 +3,28 @@
 # whether a person pushed it or weekly-release.yml created it through the
 # releases API.
 #
-# The image is multi-arch (linux/amd64, linux/arm64) as before, but built in
+# The image is multi-arch (linux/amd64, linux/arm64), built by two jobs on
-# one buildx run on host1 instead of one native runner per architecture: the
+# the image-build runner rather than one buildx run for both. The Dockerfile's
-# Dockerfile's builder stage runs on the build platform and cross-compiles
+# builder stage runs on the build platform and cross-compiles with an aarch64
-# with an aarch64 linker, so only the small final stage (apt, setcap) goes
+# linker, so only the small final stage (apt, setcap) goes through QEMU for
-# through QEMU for arm64. No digest-joining job is needed.
+# arm64 -- but two release builds (LTO, one codegen unit) side by side on one
+# machine each take twice as long. Production runs amd64, so amd64 goes first
+# and on its own:
+#   * publish-amd64 pushes :<version>-amd64 and :<version>, a plain amd64
+#     image, as soon as its build is done. A deploy can start from it.
+#   * publish-arm64 then builds arm64, pushes :<version>-arm64, and replaces
+#     :<version> with the two-platform index. :latest moves only here, so it
+#     never names an image without arm64.
+#
+# Both jobs use one BuildKit builder, `gitea-builder`, whose container
+# (buildx_buildkit_gitea-builder0) and state volume stay on the runner's host
+# between jobs: a job container's `buildx create` finds the existing container
+# and reuses it and its cache. The dependency build (`cargo chef cook`) is
+# keyed on the recipe, which only a dependency change alters, so a release
+# normally compiles just the workspace. Removing that container or its volume
+# costs the next release a cold build, nothing more. The planner and dependency
+# layers for the build platform are shared, so arm64 also reuses what amd64
+# just did where it can.
 #
 # Two guards before anything is pushed:
 #   * the tag must be v<brand_version!>. The version is a string in
@@ -62,7 +79,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "version=$V" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           echo "version $V"
 
-  publish:
+  publish-amd64:
     needs: [version]
     runs-on: docker
     container:
@@ -81,16 +98,15 @@ jobs:
           test -n "$REGISTRY" && test -n "$VERSION"
           test -n "$PACKAGE_TOKEN" || { echo "PACKAGE_TOKEN secret is not set on this repository" >&2; exit 1; }
           echo "$PACKAGE_TOKEN" | docker login -u jcoffey-dev --password-stdin "$REGISTRY"
-          docker run --privileged --rm tonistiigi/binfmt --install arm64
           docker buildx create --use --name gitea-builder --driver docker-container || docker buildx use gitea-builder
-      # Attestations off, as before: they add manifests of their own to the
+      # Attestations off, as before: they add manifests of their own, and the
-      # index, and the index should hold the two images and nothing else.
+      # index should hold the two images and nothing else.
       - run: |
           docker buildx build \
-            --platform linux/amd64,linux/arm64 \
+            --platform linux/amd64 \
             --provenance=false --sbom=false \
+            --tag "$IMAGE:$VERSION-amd64" \
             --tag "$IMAGE:$VERSION" \
-            --tag "$IMAGE:latest" \
             --push .
           docker buildx imagetools inspect "$IMAGE:$VERSION"
       # Gitea keeps a container package on its owner; linking it shows it on
@@ -103,11 +119,47 @@ jobs:
       - if: always()
         run: docker logout "$REGISTRY" || true
 
+  publish-arm64:
+    needs: [version, publish-amd64]
+    runs-on: docker
+    container:
+      image: docker:28-cli@sha256:625d9431a9f54c5a2bc90f24f0e1c3d55b1349fd857dd85035f98c2c9acbdd4d # 28-cli
+      volumes:
+        - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
+    env:
+      DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
+      REGISTRY: ${{ vars.REGISTRY }}
+      IMAGE: ${{ vars.REGISTRY }}/${{ github.repository }}
+      VERSION: ${{ needs.version.outputs.version }}
+      PACKAGE_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PACKAGE_TOKEN }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: coffey-labs/actions/checkout@fab0c4d45e0162963965f1555df27b7bed5e20ec
+      - run: |
+          echo "$PACKAGE_TOKEN" | docker login -u jcoffey-dev --password-stdin "$REGISTRY"
+          docker run --privileged --rm tonistiigi/binfmt --install arm64
+          docker buildx create --use --name gitea-builder --driver docker-container || docker buildx use gitea-builder
+      # The index is built from the two per-architecture tags rather than from
+      # :<version>, which by now is the amd64 image and would be read as such.
+      - run: |
+          docker buildx build \
+            --platform linux/arm64 \
+            --provenance=false --sbom=false \
+            --tag "$IMAGE:$VERSION-arm64" \
+            --push .
+          docker buildx imagetools create \
+            --tag "$IMAGE:$VERSION" \
+            --tag "$IMAGE:latest" \
+            "$IMAGE:$VERSION-amd64" "$IMAGE:$VERSION-arm64"
+          docker buildx imagetools inspect "$IMAGE:$VERSION"
+      - if: always()
+        run: docker logout "$REGISTRY" || true
+
   # The weekly release creates its Release (and so the tag) first; a tag
   # pushed by hand has none. Either way the tag ends up with exactly one
-  # Release, created after the image exists so its pull instructions work.
+  # Release, created once the amd64 image exists so its pull instructions
+  # work; arm64 and the binaries follow.
   release:
-    needs: [version, publish]
+    needs: [version, publish-amd64]
     runs-on: light
     container:
       image: python:3.13-slim@sha256:8d9d0b8bcf6506481eae4907c18f5e3e7902e629f5f6d684f9e7c32e85e3ddf0 # 3.13-slim
@@ -131,7 +183,9 @@ jobs:
           except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
               if e.code != 404: raise
           image = f"{os.environ['REGISTRY']}/{os.environ['REPO']}:{version}"
-          body = (f"Container image: `{image}` (linux/amd64, linux/arm64); also `:latest`.\n\n"
+          body = (f"Container image: `{image}` (linux/amd64, linux/arm64); also `:latest`. "
+                  "amd64 is published first; arm64 is added to the same tag when its build "
+                  "finishes, and `:latest` moves then.\n\n"
                   "Binaries for a host install are attached: `inbuxa-linux-amd64.tar.gz` and "
                   "`inbuxa-linux-arm64.tar.gz`, with `SHA256SUMS`. Each is the binary out of this "
                   "release's image for that architecture, so it is the same build. The image "
@@ -154,7 +208,7 @@ jobs:
   # `docker create` does not start anything, so pulling an arm64 image on an
   # amd64 runner and copying a file out of it needs no emulation.
   binaries:
-    needs: [version, publish, release]
+    needs: [version, publish-arm64, release]
     runs-on: docker
     container:
       image: docker:28-cli@sha256:625d9431a9f54c5a2bc90f24f0e1c3d55b1349fd857dd85035f98c2c9acbdd4d # 28-cli