We are announcing the availability of Anka software with hourly usage pricing for AWS EC2 Mac deployments to align with currently available ec2-mac instance usage models. Why do users need to run Anka on top of ec2-mac instances? AWS ec2-mac instance runs on top of a dedicated mac host machine. Provisioning and de-provisioning of these
We at Veertu are excited to announce that Anka 3 for M1 macOS type 2 virtualization is now out of beta and is GA. Anka 3 for M1 is a type 2 virtualization solution that uses the new Apple Virtualization Framework released in macOS Monterey to create and run macOS VMs on M1 Macs. Anka
As a follow-up to my previous blog on Anka Image Security Scanner, today, we are announcing the Beta availability of the Anka Image Scanner solution for iOS development. The Beta version of Anka Image Scanner is available as a docker container. Visit https://docs.veertu.com/anka-scan to get details on how to download it and get started. You
Up until a few years ago, the focus of software security was securing the perimeter. However, with the wide adoption of containers and service-based architecture for software applications and services, the responsibility of security is falling on developers. Securing the software supply chain is now the key area of focus with President Biden signing an
Anka 3.0 (beta) now available for Apple’s M1 hardware We are excited to announce our Anka 3.0 beta version allowing you to create macOS VMs for iOS CI using Apple M1 hardware. This version allows you to leverage the significant performance improvements offered by this new hardware. Anka version 3.0 uses the new virtualization framework
In this blog, we’re going to walk you through how you can automate the creation of single-use macOS VMs for iOS CI with AWS EC2 Mac and Github Actions or Buildkite. Here at Veertu we have a long history with Buildkite and love YAML configured build, test, and deployment automation. Buildkite has many great features
In this blog post, we’re going to show you how to set up and utilize on-demand macOS VMs for iOS building and testing inside of Azure DevOps Pipelines using Veertu’s Anka Build solution. Microsoft has a vast library of services under Azure DevOps which support teams in planning work, collaborating on code, and automating building
The following is an interview with Filip Viskovic of Improbable on how they used Anka to set up self-service creation and deployment of on-demand macOS CI environments for 100s of remote developers. Improbable is a company dedicated to providing services for extraordinary multiplayer games. They have been users of Anka since 2019. Before you found
Amazon EC2 Mac instances provide a way for iOS development teams to configure iOS CI infrastructure on AWS without the hassles of hosting and managing the mac hardware themselves. These EC2 Mac instances offer a usage-based pricing model (minimum 24-hour threshold), unlimited scalability of mac hardware with minimal management overhead, worldwide access for distributed development
Recently, the AWS Compute Blog wrote an excellent introduction to “Getting Started with Anka on EC2 Mac Instances“. In the blog, they covered allocating an EC2 Mac Dedicated Host; launching a mac1.metal instance on it; installing and configured Anka for “type-2 virtualization and orchestration”; and finally, successfully launching and running commands inside a macOS virtual