Docker image with distroless as a base image is throwing error while deploying to AWS EKS

[Venkatesh-Navali]

Describe the bug
When using the gcr.io/distroless/java17-debian11 base image in my Dockerfile to create a Docker image and deploying the same to AWS EKS cluster, I encountered an error. and error is "exec /usr/bin/java: exec format error"

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Use the 'gcr.io/distroless/java17-debian11' base image in a Dockerfile.
2. Build the Docker image with a sample spring boot application
3. Deploy the Docker image to an AWS EKS cluster.
4. Observe the error message: exec /usr/bin/java: exec
   Expected behavior
   The Docker image should deploy successfully to the AWS EKS cluster without encountering the "exec /usr/bin/java: exec" error.

Console Output
exec /usr/bin/java: exec format error

Additional context
Docker Engine : 25.0.3
Docker client: 25.0.3
Docker Desktop : 4.28.0 (139021)
AWS EKS Platform Version : eks.11
Kubernetes version : 1.28

Attaching a sample Dockerfile used.
DockerFile.txt

[loosebazooka]

We typically don't have the kind of eng capacity to debug these errors. You might need to do a deeper dive into the problem and if it's an actual distroless issue we can fix it. On a surface level it seems like you might have an architecture mismatch. As if you're build on a mac and deploying to an amd64 cluster.

[souphi]

@loosebazooka
That mean there is not any known compatibility issue with AWS EKS with distroless images(gcr.io/distroless/java17-debian11).

[loosebazooka]

Potentially. I have personally not seen one.