diff --git a/cli/command/completion/functions.go b/cli/command/completion/functions.go
index 30acf1e96e..b217ec54b0 100644
--- a/cli/command/completion/functions.go
+++ b/cli/command/completion/functions.go
@@ -145,3 +145,47 @@ func FileNames(_ *cobra.Command, _ []string, _ string) ([]string, cobra.ShellCom
 func NoComplete(_ *cobra.Command, _ []string, _ string) ([]string, cobra.ShellCompDirective) {
 	return nil, cobra.ShellCompDirectiveNoFileComp
 }
+
+var commonPlatforms = []string{
+	"linux",
+	"linux/386",
+	"linux/amd64",
+	"linux/arm",
+	"linux/arm/v5",
+	"linux/arm/v6",
+	"linux/arm/v7",
+	"linux/arm64",
+	"linux/arm64/v8",
+
+	// IBM power and z platforms
+	"linux/ppc64le",
+	"linux/s390x",
+
+	// Not yet supported
+	"linux/riscv64",
+
+	"windows",
+	"windows/amd64",
+
+	"wasip1",
+	"wasip1/wasm",
+}
+
+// Platforms offers completion for platform-strings. It provides a non-exhaustive
+// list of platforms to be used for completion. Platform-strings are based on
+// [runtime.GOOS] and [runtime.GOARCH], but with (optional) variants added. A
+// list of recognised os/arch combinations from the Go runtime can be obtained
+// through "go tool dist list".
+//
+// Some noteworthy exclusions from this list:
+//
+//   - arm64 images ("windows/arm64", "windows/arm64/v8") do not yet exist for windows.
+//   - we don't (yet) include `os-variant` for completion (as can be used for Windows images)
+//   - we don't (yet) include platforms for which we don't build binaries, such as
+//     BSD platforms (freebsd, netbsd, openbsd), android, macOS (darwin).
+//   - we currently exclude architectures that may have unofficial builds,
+//     but don't have wide adoption (and no support), such as loong64, mipsXXX,
+//     ppc64 (non-le) to prevent confusion.
+func Platforms(_ *cobra.Command, _ []string, _ string) (platforms []string, _ cobra.ShellCompDirective) {
+	return commonPlatforms, cobra.ShellCompDirectiveNoFileComp
+}
diff --git a/cli/command/completion/functions_test.go b/cli/command/completion/functions_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a4bb6f5438
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cli/command/completion/functions_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package completion
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+	"gotest.tools/v3/assert"
+	is "gotest.tools/v3/assert/cmp"
+)
+
+func TestCompletePlatforms(t *testing.T) {
+	values, directives := Platforms(nil, nil, "")
+	assert.Check(t, is.Equal(directives&cobra.ShellCompDirectiveNoFileComp, cobra.ShellCompDirectiveNoFileComp), "Should not perform file completion")
+	assert.Check(t, is.DeepEqual(values, commonPlatforms))
+}