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,

There is “Lunchable,” and then there is “Lunchable Uploaded”. Today, we are announcing nested beta support in Anka Build platform to run Docker workloads in macOS VMs. It takes DevOps up a notch for macOS ecosystem. So, why nested support in Anka? Nested for everyone who is familiar with virtualization, means to run a hypervisor

There is some confusion about the feasibility of executing iOS simulator based UI testing in macOS VMs. Anka macOS VMs provide pretty much all capabilities of macOS running on hardware to set up a scalable, agile CI infrastructure for building and testing iOS applications. Since iOS simulator uses software-based rendering for graphics, it can run

Anka run command line interface enables command execution inside Anka macOS VMs directly from the host. It’s very similar to container docker run. Why is this interesting – It allows Devops to take their existing container based Linux CI workflow automation, repurpose it for macOS and use it on Anka Build macOS Cloud infrastructure for

You start with one iOS app and then it morphs into multiple apps, and you are shipping a new version of all these apps frequently to the app store without compromising on quality. How do you do it? First, you build an application architecture that supports the scale – a large team of developers working

Anka Build Veertu is a complete software solution to configure a cloud using Apple hardware (on-prem or rented) that manages macOS VMs, similar to containers If you use a container-based CI/CD setup for Linux, you can easily integrate Anka Build Cloud for your ephemeral and on-demand iOS app builds and tests. Additionally, you can also run

What is Anka Build Anka Build is a solution suite to configure a macOS cloud mac hardware, on which you can provision immutable docker like macOS VMs for iOS and macOS CI jobs. Anka hypervisor enables macOS VMs to run in a very resource efficient manner and fast boot feature makes them available on-demand instantly.

In our recently released version 1.2 of Anka Build, we made few changes to the management module (Controller) to enable even easier setup, configuration, and management of macOS cloud for CI. For more details on how to configure macOS cloud for CI, refer to Anka Build macOS cloud on Mac Pro or Anka Build macOS