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Draft: Document steps to initialize a remote amd64 docker builder

Oscar Tovarrequested to merge
dx/document-gcloud-amd64-builder-setup into main

What does this MR do and why?

We have occasionally run into issues where QEMU emulation is insufficiently able to build amd64 images on arm64 machines. To work around this we can ask docker to use a remotely hosted builder. Typically, this involves a lot of work to secure, but with [gcloud] we can make this much simpler and secure. This merge request documents the steps needed to get a local build working.

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