To enable compatibility for VSCode tasks (docker-compose) on Apple Silicon architecture, we must implement modifications to our tasks.json file.

https://github.com/maany/rucio-vscode-dev-env/blob/c046f98d7657ab40ba142f8f945b4fdf139c47bf/tasks.json#L4C1-L16C5

to:

			"label": "start-containers",
			"type": "docker-compose",
			"options": {
                "env": {
                    "DOCKER_DEFAULT_PLATFORM": "linux/amd64"
                }
            },
			"dockerCompose": {
				"up": {
					"detached": true,
					"build": true
				},
				"files": [
					"${workspaceFolder}/.vscode/docker-compose.yml"
				]
			},
		},

This setting will tell to docker to use linux/amd64 as a default plataform for docker-compose tasks.

A Mac with Apple silicon is capable of running code compiled for the x86_64 instruction set using a translation mechanism called Rosetta 2.

Rosetta 2 is a pre-req to run x86_64 on Apple Silicon.