Docs m1 (#11578)

* reverted docker build changes, removing aarch64 builds

* added documentation for M1 installations

* Update docs/docs/installation.mdx

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Anca Lita <[email protected]>

* Update docs/docs/components.mdx

Co-authored-by: Anca Lita <[email protected]>

* removed unneded type ignore that let ci fail

* bumped spacy to 3.4

* explicitly defined dependency for spacy featurizer

* added external dependency versions as a fingerprint attribute for components

* Applying default config in SpacyNLP component

* Removed fixed vector testing, improved case test

* Reformatted using black

* Added changelog

* Exchanged importlib with pkg_resources for py37 compatibility

* using direct import

* Back to pkg-resources but with mapping for sklearn

* Unified definitions of required_packages as staticmethod in all components

* code quality

* made tensorflow metal optional

* Added note about retraining to changelog

* Distinguishing between m1 and others for spacy dependency

* fixed testing dependency issue

* fixed invalid docs links

Co-authored-by: Anca Lita <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Thomas Werkmeister <[email protected]>

.github/workflows/continous-integration.yml

@@ -552,9 +552,6 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
         if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
 
-      - name: Set up QEMU
-        uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v2
-
       - name: Read Poetry Version 🔢
         run: |
           echo "POETRY_VERSION=$(scripts/poetry-version.sh)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
@@ -626,7 +623,7 @@ jobs:
           export IMAGE_TAG=${{ steps.check_image.outputs.base_image_hash }}
           docker buildx bake -f docker/docker-bake.hcl base
 
-      - name: Push Docker base image if it's not building from a fork ⬆ 
+      - name: Push Docker base image if it's not building from a fork ⬆
         if: (steps.check_image.outputs.base_exists == 'false' || env.IS_TAG_BUILD == 'true') && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.owner.login == 'RasaHQ'
         run: |
           export IMAGE_TAG=${{ steps.check_image.outputs.base_image_hash }}
@@ -638,7 +635,7 @@ jobs:
           export IMAGE_TAG=${{ steps.check_image.outputs.base_mitie_image_hash }}
           docker buildx bake -f docker/docker-bake.hcl base-mitie
 
-      - name: Push Docker mitie base image if it's not building from a fork ⬆ 
+      - name: Push Docker mitie base image if it's not building from a fork ⬆
         if: steps.check_image.outputs.base_mitie_exists == 'false' && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.owner.login == 'RasaHQ'
         run: |
           export IMAGE_TAG=${{ steps.check_image.outputs.base_mitie_image_hash }}
@@ -725,7 +722,6 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         image: [default, full, mitie-en, spacy-de, spacy-en]
-        arch: [linux/amd64, linux/arm64]
 
     steps:
       # Due to an issue with checking out a wrong commit, we make sure
@@ -741,9 +737,6 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
         if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
 
-      - name: Set up QEMU
-        uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v2
-
       - name: Free disk space
         if: needs.changes.outputs.docker == 'true'
         # tries to make sure we do not run out of disk space, see
@@ -767,9 +760,6 @@ jobs:
           version: v0.5.1
           driver: docker
 
-      - name: Echo Available platforms
-        run: echo ${{ steps.buildx.outputs.platforms }}
-
       - name: Login to DockerHub Registry 🔢
         if: needs.changes.outputs.docker == 'true'
         run: echo ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD }} | docker login -u ${{ env.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }} --password-stdin || true
@@ -785,19 +775,19 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build Docker image
         if: needs.changes.outputs.docker == 'true'
         run: |
-          docker buildx bake --set *.platform=${{ matrix.arch }} -f docker/docker-bake.hcl ${{ matrix.image }}
+          docker buildx bake -f docker/docker-bake.hcl ${{ matrix.image }}
 
       - name: Push image with main tag 📦
         if: needs.changes.outputs.docker == 'true' && github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' && github.repository == 'RasaHQ/rasa'
         run: |
-          docker buildx bake --set *.platform=${{ matrix.arch }} -f docker/docker-bake.hcl ${{ matrix.image }} --push
+          docker buildx bake -f docker/docker-bake.hcl ${{ matrix.image }} --push
 
       - name: Push image with ${{github.ref}} tag 📦
         if: needs.changes.outputs.docker == 'true' && github.event_name == 'push' && env.IS_TAG_BUILD == 'true' && github.repository == 'RasaHQ/rasa'
         run: |
           IS_NEWEST_VERSION=${{ needs.build_docker_base_images_and_set_env.outputs.is_newest_version }}
 
-          docker buildx bake --set *.platform=${{ matrix.arch }} -f docker/docker-bake.hcl ${{ matrix.image }} --push
+          docker buildx bake -f docker/docker-bake.hcl ${{ matrix.image }} --push
 
           # Tag the image as latest
           if [[ "${IS_NEWEST_VERSION}" == "true" ]]; then

changelog/ATO-320.improvement.md

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Rasa supports native installations on Apple Silicon (M1 / M2). Please
+follow the installation instructions and take a look at the limitations.

changelog/ATO-400.improvement.md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Added package versions of component  dependencies as an additional part of fingerprinting calculation. Upgrading an dependency will thus lead to a retraining of the component in the future. Also, by changing fingerprint calculation, the next training after this change will be a complete retraining.

docs/docs/components.mdx

@@ -495,6 +495,8 @@ Note: The `feature-dimension` for sequence and sentence features does not have t
   :::note
   To use `ConveRTFeaturizer`, install Rasa Open Source with `pip3 install rasa[convert]`.
 
+  Note that this component cannot currently run on MacOS using M1 / M2 architecture. 
+  More information on this limitation is available [here](./installation.mdx#m1--m2-apple-silicon-limitations).
   :::