Single-use macOS VMs for iOS CI with Anka, AWS EC2 Mac, and Github Actions or Buildkite
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 […]
On-demand macOS VMs in Azure DevOps Pipelines with Anka Build
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 […]
Self-service creation and deployment of on-demand macOS CI environments for remote developers
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 […]
Ephemeral VMs and CI Orchestration on AWS EC2 Mac with Anka
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 […]
Benefits of running Anka on AWS EC2 Mac Instances
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 […]
Monitoring your Anka Build Cloud with Prometheus
Prometheus is a powerful monitoring and alerting toolkit. You can use it to store Anka Controller, Registry, and VM metrics to build out or integrating into existing graphing tools like Grafana. While exactly how you should install Prometheus and Grafana are outside of our bounds of support, we do have a way to set it […]
Build and test Metal Xcode projects with Anka
In this blog, we’d like to show you how to build and test Metal Xcode projects with Anka. Modern iOS and macOS applications use Apple Metal APIs to access GPU for graphics or intensive calculations. Starting in Anka version 2.3.2, Anka VMs support the Apple Metal framework in order to leverage the host’s GPU. Developers can […]
Anka Develop: A Free License for Developers + Big Sur VM Support
We are excited to announce the Beta version of our next Anka release, including a Free License for developers named Anka Develop, better security with driver-less addons, anka create support for Big Sur, and a new command for transferring files and folders from your host into the VM. A More Secure Anka As Apple embraces […]
Comparing Anka and Orka
In this blog, we will do our best at comparing Anka and Orka, expediting your team’s decision-making process. This blog’s information is likely to change over time as both Anka and Orka evolve. Versions and other details will become out of date. It’s best to reach out to [email protected] for the latest information. As your […]
Anka GitLab Runner v1.0.0
Veertu Inc is excited to announce the Anka GitLab Runner v1.0.0, now available on our Anka GitLab Runner GitHub Releases page and inside of DockerHub. It has been several months since we released the beta Anka GitLab Runner 0.6 back in December of 2019. We want to give a big thank you to all of […]