iOS infrastructure for Developers and Continuous Integration

Runs as a native application on mac hardware with a footprint of 15MB

Leverages native macOS resource scheduling and power management for guest macOS VMs

INSTANT START technology to start VMs in less than a second for on-demand provisioning

Para Virtual drivers for greatly increased disk & network performance inside the VMs

USB passthrough to connect iOS devices to macOS VMs

Origins in FreeBSD Bhyve/Xhyve hypervisor and EDK II

Central management module for Anka Build self-service macOS cloud

Provisions macOS VMs on-demand for incoming multiple CI job requests, load balances across mac hardware cluster

REST APIs to integrate with any CI systems, for example BuildKite, GitlabCI

Jenkins and TeamCity plugins available for out-of-box integration

Runs as a linux service on a linux instance(on-prem or cloud) or inside a linux container

Based on container registry concept, but manages Anka macOS VMs

Exposes simple push and pull commands in anka client to upload and download VMs to nodes in Anka Build private cloud or Anka Flow developer machines

VM Versioning enabled through simple tag terminology

Communication protocol between Anka Build or Flow client and registry is designed to support incremental uploads and downloads for responsive user experience

Container like command line interface to pull VMs from the registry and work with them for development

Anka run command to execute in VMs from the dev machine command line

Shared file system to enable direct execution of build inside the VM from the host

Test on real iOS devices with anka usb command line interface