iOS 12 USB pairing with Anka VM for iOS CI
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...
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Announcing Anka Build version 1.4.3 - Supports Docker inside Anka VMs
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...
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Quick setup of Anka Build macOS cloud on Mac hardware
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...
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T2 Chip and Anka co-existence
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...
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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
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...
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Anka Build Runner for GitLab CI
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...
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Shared storage or local storage based macOS Cloud for iOS CI
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...
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Provisioning on-demand macOS virtual machines with Jenkins and Anka Build for iOS CI
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...
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Build cache for faster iOS builds with Jenkins CI and on-demand macOS VM slaves
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...
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Run docker workloads in macOS VMs on Anka Build - DevOps Uploaded
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...
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