iOS infrastructure for Developers and Continuous Integration

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

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

Patent Pending INSTANT START technology to start VMs in less than a second

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

Provides out-of-box setup and management of mac hardware as workers to build Anka Build private cloud

Low setup overhead with self-registration of macs running Anka hypervisor

In-built queuing module, which can de deployed in both single and distributed mode and handles incoming requests from the CI system

REST APIs to integrate with the CI system

Enables central management of macOS VMs and their versions on local or network storage

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

VM Versioning enabled through simple tag terminology

Communication protocol between Anka node and registry is designed to support incremental uploads and downloads for responsive user experience

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

Anka run command to execute in Anka 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 ankactl USB