Adding Power (ppc64le) support

[sumangalm-1]

#3245 (comment)

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[sumangalm-1]

@jimsheldon @jamesknowling, can you please review my PR ?

[bradrydzewski]

@sumangalm-1 while we appreciate the pull request and would love to merge, it cannot be merged because we would need ppc64le servers to build and publish a docker image. Without ppc64le servers it would break our pipeline.

[sumangalm-1]

Thanks @bradrydzewski ,for responding .
We can get an initial set of FREE ppc64le VMs at https://openpower.ic.unicamp.br/minicloud/.
If you need more ppc64le VM's then also we are ready to provide :).

[bradrydzewski]

last I recall, the servers at minicloud expire after a certain period of time which would cause periodic outages / break our pipeline and would be problematic. We also need to use a hosting provider that is soc2 or fedramp certified, and I am not sure minicloud would qualify.

[sumangalm-1]

@bradrydzewski, I have connected with @jimsheldon. he has suggested using the Qemu user approach. so I'm able to build and publish images on x86 using Qemu.
If you want to test for a long time. then we will provide you with IBM cloud resources.

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