when trying to install cli-manager on arm64 cluster i see that it indeed pulls in amd64 and pod goes into crashLoopBackOff state with error as below
[knarra@knarra-thinkpadx1carbon7th ~]$ oc logs -f openshift-cli-manager-operator-6bcb98df86-h9wc8 -n openshift-cli-manager-operator
exec /usr/bin/cli-manager-operator: exec format error

    

    [knarra@knarra-thinkpadx1carbon7th ~]$ oc get csv -n openshift-cli-manager-operator
NAME                          DISPLAY       VERSION   REPLACES   PHASE
cli-manager-operator.v0.1.0   CLI Manager   0.1.0                Failed

[knarra@knarra-thinkpadx1carbon7th ~]$ oc get clusterversion
NAME      VERSION                                    AVAILABLE   PROGRESSING   SINCE   STATUS
version   4.17.0-0.nightly-arm64-2024-09-29-173421   True        False         68m     Cluster version is 4.17.0-0.nightly-arm64-2024-09-29-173421

    

     Always
    

    1. Install arm64 ocp cluster; Get the latest fbc given by dev
    2.  create a .sh file as given below to create a catalogsource and run sh custom_registry.sh
[knarra@knarra-thinkpadx1carbon7th ~]$ cat /tmp/custom_catalogsource.sh 
#!/bin/bash

echo "Create CatalogSource"
cat <<EOF | oc create -f -
apiVersion: operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1
kind: CatalogSource
metadata:
  name: cli-manager-registry
  namespace: openshift-marketplace
spec:
  displayName: Production Operators
  publisher: OpenShift QE
  sourceType: grpc
  updateStrategy:
    registryPoll:
      interval: 15m
  image: registry-proxy.engineering.redhat.com/rh-osbs/iib@sha256:7f888fa14414dd9e1d362a9b4e5fa161425eb7dd72d9e876d3fc863cea97ca91
EOF

    3. Now verify that custom-registry pod exists in openshift-marketplace by running hte command `oc get pods -n openshift-marketplace` and it runs with out any issues.
     4. Now browse through UI
     5. search for cli-manager-operator; click Install
    

    Verify that installation starts and pod goes into crashLoopBackOff state.
    [knarra@knarra-thinkpadx1carbon7th ~]$ oc get pods -n openshift-cli-manager-operator
NAME                                              READY   STATUS             RESTARTS        AGE
openshift-cli-manager-operator-6bcb98df86-h9wc8   0/1     CrashLoopBackOff   13 (2m8s ago)   43m

Events:
  Type     Reason          Age                 From               Message
  ----     ------          ----                ----               -------
  Normal   Scheduled       15m                 default-scheduler  Successfully assigned openshift-cli-manager-operator/openshift-cli-manager-operator-6bcb98df86-h9wc8 to ip-10-0-64-106.us-east-2.compute.internal
  Normal   AddedInterface  15m                 multus             Add eth0 [10.131.0.17/23] from ovn-kubernetes
  Normal   Pulled          15m                 kubelet            Successfully pulled image "registry.redhat.io/cli-manager-operator/cli-manager-rhel9-operator@sha256:c8f7897016892dbea12795315858f5d6df0ef744aaa5cdde721491316fef19bc" in 9.309s (9.309s including waiting). Image size: 316570716 bytes.
  Normal   Pulled          15m                 kubelet            Successfully pulled image "registry.redhat.io/cli-manager-operator/cli-manager-rhel9-operator@sha256:c8f7897016892dbea12795315858f5d6df0ef744aaa5cdde721491316fef19bc" in 703ms (703ms including waiting). Image size: 316570716 bytes.
  Normal   Pulled          14m                 kubelet            Successfully pulled image "registry.redhat.io/cli-manager-operator/cli-manager-rhel9-operator@sha256:c8f7897016892dbea12795315858f5d6df0ef744aaa5cdde721491316fef19bc" in 712ms (712ms including waiting). Image size: 316570716 bytes.
  Normal   Created         14m (x4 over 15m)   kubelet            Created container openshift-cli-manager-operator
  Normal   Started         14m (x4 over 15m)   kubelet            Started container openshift-cli-manager-operator
  Normal   Pulled          14m                 kubelet            Successfully pulled image "registry.redhat.io/cli-manager-operator/cli-manager-rhel9-operator@sha256:c8f7897016892dbea12795315858f5d6df0ef744aaa5cdde721491316fef19bc" in 595ms (596ms including waiting). Image size: 316570716 bytes.
  Normal   Pulling         13m (x5 over 15m)   kubelet            Pulling image "registry.redhat.io/cli-manager-operator/cli-manager-rhel9-operator@sha256:c8f7897016892dbea12795315858f5d6df0ef744aaa5cdde721491316fef19bc"
  Normal   Pulled          13m                 kubelet            Successfully pulled image "registry.redhat.io/cli-manager-operator/cli-manager-rhel9-operator@sha256:c8f7897016892dbea12795315858f5d6df0ef744aaa5cdde721491316fef19bc" in 458ms (458ms including waiting). Image size: 316570716 bytes.
  Warning  BackOff         13s (x71 over 15m)  kubelet            Back-off restarting failed container openshift-cli-manager-operator in pod openshift-cli-manager-operator-6bcb98df86-h9wc8_openshift-cli-manager-operator(5742fa4d-8c25-4585-9e4e-dbefaa73d834)

    

     cli-manager-operator should run on arm clusters.
    

    https://redhat-internal.slack.com/archives/C074JM28DTP/p1727768730232779