diff --git a/deploy/general.env b/deploy/general.env
index be277245..621226a7 100644
--- a/deploy/general.env
+++ b/deploy/general.env
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
 # any other variables that you may want to use go here
+
+# This is used to explicitly inform systems that run on Apple silicon to emulate this architecture
+# Remove if this causes issues on any other platform
+DOCKER_DEFAULT_PLATFORM=linux/amd64
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/deploy/services.yml b/deploy/services.yml
index 48808744..02b461f9 100644
--- a/deploy/services.yml
+++ b/deploy/services.yml
@@ -159,7 +159,6 @@ services:
 #---------------------------------------------------------------------------#
   ocr-service-1:
     container_name: ocr-service-1
-    
     image: cogstacksystems/cogstack-ocr-service:0.2.4
     restart: always
     # mem_swappiness: 0
@@ -193,7 +192,6 @@ services:
 
   ocr-service-2:
     container_name: ocr-service-2
-    
     image: cogstacksystems/cogstack-ocr-service:0.2.4
     restart: always
     # mem_swappiness: 0
@@ -383,7 +381,6 @@ services:
   elasticsearch-1:
     image: ${ELASTICSEARCH_DOCKER_IMAGE:-opensearchproject/opensearch:2.10.0}
     container_name: elasticsearch-1
-    
     shm_size : 1024mb
     restart: always
     # mem_limit: 2g
@@ -476,7 +473,6 @@ services:
   elasticsearch-2:
     image: ${ELASTICSEARCH_DOCKER_IMAGE:-opensearchproject/opensearch:2.10.0}
     container_name: elasticsearch-2
-    
     shm_size : 1024mb
     restart: always
     # mem_limit: 2g
@@ -939,7 +935,7 @@ services:
       - GROUP_ID=${NIFI_GID:-1000}
       - NIFI_WEB_PROXY_HOST=${NIFI_WEB_PROXY_HOST:-"0.0.0.0:8443,cogstack:8443,nifi:8443"}
       - NIFI_WEB_PROXY_CONTEXT_PATH=${NIFI_WEB_PROXY_CONTEXT_PATH:-"/,/nifi,/nifi-api,/nifi-api/,/nifi/"}
-      - NIFI_INTERNAL_PORT=${NIFI_INTERNAL_PORT:-8443}
+      - NIFI_INTERNAL_PORT=${NIFI_INTERNAL_PORT:-8443}d 
       - NIFI_OUTPUT_PORT=${NIFI_OUTPUT_PORT:-8082}
       - NIFI_INPUT_SOCKET_PORT=${NIFI_INPUT_SOCKET_PORT:-10000}
       - NIFI_SECURITY_DIR=${NIFI_SECURITY_DIR:-../security/nifi_certificates/}
@@ -1062,7 +1058,6 @@ services:
     #    - no_proxy=$no_proxy
     container_name: cogstack-jupyter-hub
     restart: always
-    
     env_file:
       - ./jupyter.env
     environment:
diff --git a/docs/deploy/main.md b/docs/deploy/main.md
index 57c72810..5fada627 100755
--- a/docs/deploy/main.md
+++ b/docs/deploy/main.md
@@ -117,6 +117,30 @@ Common issues that can be encountered across services.
 <br>
 <br>
 
+#### **Apple Silicon**
+
+Many services cannot run natively on Apple Silicon (such as M1 and M2 architectures). Common error messages related to Apple silicon follow patterns similar to:
+    <br /><br/>
+    - `no match for platform in manifest`
+    <br /><br/>
+    <br /><br/>
+    - `no matching manifest for linux/arm64/v8 in the manifest list entries`
+    <br /><br/>
+    <br /><br/>
+    - `image with reference cogstacksystems/cogstack-ocr-service:0.2.4 was found but does not match the specified platform: wanted linux/arm64, actual: linux/amd64`
+    <br /><br/>
+To solve these issues; Rosetta is required and enabled in Docker Desktop. Finally an environment variable is required to be set.
+
+Rosetta can which can be installed via the following command:
+```
+softwareupdate --install-rosetta
+```
+When Rosetta and Docker Desktop are installed, Rosetta must be enabled. This done by going to Docker Desktop -> Setting -> General and enabling "Use Virtualization framework". After in the same settings go to "features in development" -> "Use Rosetta for x86/amd64 emulation on Apple Silicon". Finally execute the following command:
+```
+export DOCKER_DEFAULT_PLATFORM=linux/amd64
+```
+to set the environment variable. These issues are known to occur on the "cogstack-nifi", "cogstack-ocr-services" and "jupyter-hub" services and may occur on others.
+
 #### **NiFi**
 
 When dealing with contaminated deployments ( containers using volumes from previous instances ) :