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macOS VMs for Enterprise CI/CD

Provision ephemeral macOS VMs for iOS and macOS CI with Anka Build — scalable virtualization on your Macs, hosted hardware, or AWS EC2 Mac.

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Controller
Registry
Build Nodes
GPU Metal
Real Device
CI Tool Plugins
Enterprise Ready

Anka Controller

Central dashboard for management of Anka Build Nodes, VMs instances, VM Templates/Tags, and logs

  • Built-in intelligent queueing and load balancing for many simultaneous CI/CD job VM requests
  • Out-of-the-box integration with Jenkins, Github Actions, Buildkite, TeamCity, and GitLab
  • REST API
  • Install directly onto macOS, or use a docker container with a cloud provider (AWS, GCP, etc), Kubernetes, and even on-premises linux VMs

Anka Registry

Centralized storage for your team's macOS VM templates and tags — version and share images across CI

  • VM state versioning through Tags
  • Easily distribute VM Templates to all nodes using the Controller dashboard's distribution feature
  • Push and pull new Templates and Tags using the Anka CLI
  • REST API
  • Uploads and downloads of VM Templates between the Registry and Anka CLI clients will start where they left off should communication fail

Anka Build Nodes

Apple Silicon and Intel Mac hosts running Anka Virtualization — on-demand macOS VMs for iOS CI/CD with container-like DevOps workflows

  • Runs on any Apple hardware, including Apple Silicon
  • Suspended macOS VM Templates fast-boot to cut on-demand provisioning time for CI/CD jobs
  • Downloading a new VM Template or Tag from the Registry only pulls deltas — saving bandwidth and time
GPU-Metal Support

GPU-Metal Support

  • Access to GPU through Metal API in macOS VMs
  • Enable testing of apps that use hardware-accelerated 3D graphic and compute shader Metal APIs
  • Increased iOS simulator performance

Real Device Support

  • Attach real devices to provisioned Xcode VMs for testing
  • REST APIs + command line support to quickly provision device attached on-demand VM
  • Attach multiple devices to a single VM
  • All USB devices supported: iOS, Android, etc

CI/CD Plugins and Integrations

Enterprise Ready

  • Support for shared services CI Infrastructure setup
  • Single Sign On (SSO) supported
  • Encryption of Build and Test VMs at-rest and in transit
  • Priority based provisioning
  • Scalable, High Availability support with container based deployment
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