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Cloud-based continuous integration for macOS with Concourse and Anka

February 12, 2019/in Uncategorized /by Kyle Douglass, Systems Integration and Test Engineer, Pix4D

Pix4D creates professional photogrammetry software for drone mapping. The people who use our products include surveyors, farmers, and researchers, and they use the software on a range of platforms including desktop, mobile, and cloud. Pix4D’s continuous integration (CI) team is based in the headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, where we design and maintain the systems used by […]

iOS 12 USB pairing with Anka VM for iOS CI

January 24, 2019/in Uncategorized /by Veertu Team

In iOS 12 the lockdown procedure (mutual authentication of USB host and iOS device on each other) was modified. This lockdown procedure affects the workflow of attaching iOS devices to Anka VMs with USB pass-through for iOS CI real device testing using Anka Build or Anka Flow. We have fixed this issue in Anka version […]

Announcing Anka Build version 1.4.3 – Supports Docker inside Anka VMs

January 23, 2019/in Uncategorized /by Veertu Team

Anka Build and Anka Flow version 1.4.3 is now available for all users. Some key new features in version 1.4.3 of Anka include support to run Docker and other hypervisors inside Anka VMs, create groups/clusters in Anka Build macOS cloud, priority based provisioning and core-based licensing. For more details see the version 1.4.3 release notes […]

Quick setup of Anka Build macOS cloud on Mac hardware

January 2, 2019/in Uncategorized /by Veertu Team

In this blog post, we will discuss how you can very quickly set up a macOS cloud using Anka Build exclusively on Mac Hardware. Anka Build cloud management software component is packaged as Linux Docker containers, and most common implementation architecture is to run them on a Linux instance. However, if you don’t have access […]

T2 Chip and Anka co-existence

December 17, 2018/in Uncategorized /by Veertu Team

Since the release of new 2018 mac minis, we have received several questions from users on the impact of T2 security chip included in the new mac minis on Anka Build setup. This blog describes in detail how Anka technology foundation is agnostic to T2 and can co-exist with it. There is enough written about […]

iOS build and test in Anka Build VMs on new 2018 mac mini – No performance compromise compared to running native on Mac Pro and Mac mini

November 26, 2018/in Uncategorized /by Veertu Team

The new Mac mini 2018 which was released this month, with 8th Generation Intel CPU going up to six cores and support for up to 64GB of memory, is now a powerful contender for enterprise-grade macOS workloads. Here at Veertu, we were looking forward to this new mac hardware release to run Anka Build. Anka […]

Anka Build Runner for GitLab CI

October 19, 2018/in Uncategorized /by Veertu Team

Dynamically provision iOS build/test environments from GitLab CI on Anka Build macOS Cloud Anka Build software is used to configure an AWS like macOS cloud on mac hardware. Once Anka Build setup is complete, DevOps can create multiple build/test images for their iOS CI, and dynamically provision container like instances on Anka Build macOS cloud […]

Shared storage or local storage based macOS Cloud for iOS CI

October 17, 2018/in Uncategorized /by Nick Cobb

It’s obvious that mobile development is very mainstream now and as a result, the size and number of mobile development projects continues to grow. However, as projects and teams scale, and the number of dependencies increase, ensuring a consistent and stable build for all developers while ensuring code and test quality is a much bigger […]

Provisioning on-demand macOS virtual machines with Jenkins and Anka Build for iOS CI

September 25, 2018/in Uncategorized /by Peter Wiesner

Guest Blog Post By Peter Wiesner, Senior Software Engineer @Skyscanner Every year Apple releases a new version of Xcode. CI systems for iOS application development need to adopt it, so developers can take advantage of the new iOS features. CI systems using Anka Build have a head-start here. For folks not familiar with Anka Build, […]

Build cache for faster iOS builds with Jenkins CI and on-demand macOS VM slaves

August 5, 2018/in Uncategorized /by Veertu Team

Most of the existing iOS CI environments are configured to run the build and tests jobs directly on the Mac hardware. In such installations with large projects, some data like XCode derived data, and code repository get cached on the hardware and subsequent builds use these caches. In this blog, we will describe how you […]