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Monitor Anka Build Cloud Disk Space with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki
Anka Build Cloud exposes node disk, capacity, and instance metrics through the Anka Prometheus Exporter, and its agent and container logs reach Loki through promtail. Here is how to scrape the metrics into Prometheus, graph free disk in Grafana, and alert...
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Cursor Origin, Buildkite, and Anka: macOS CI on Agent-Hosted Repos
Cursor Origin now connects Buildkite for CI on Origin-hosted repos. Pair that with Anka's Buildkite plugin so each job runs in a disposable macOS VM on hardware you control.
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Running Several macOS and Xcode Versions Side by Side on One Mac
Run concurrent Anka macOS VMs with different OS and Xcode stacks on one host: density math for vCPU and RAM, and why per-project templates beat a shared mutable machine.
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Ephemeral macOS VMs on AWS EC2 Mac with Anka
Run ephemeral macOS VMs on AWS EC2 Mac with Anka and Anklet. Pack more iOS CI capacity per instance, start jobs in seconds, and cut cost.
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A Year of Anka: Highlights from 2024
We’re starting a new annual tradition here at Veertu with our A Year of Anka blog posts. We want our customers to know how the product has grown over the past year and think this is a great avenue to do so. Please enjoy and happy holidays from all...
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Unlocking Superior macOS VM Network Performance: Introducing Anka's new networking mode for Apple Silicon
Large and complex enterprises using Anka have many different demands, and we have worked to continue to develop innovative technology to meet these demands. Enterprise infrastructure hardware is often on the cutting edge, and they need advanced capabilities...
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Anka Cloud Gitlab Executor
Veertu’s Anka and the new Anka Cloud Gitlab Executor Veertu’s Anka is a suite of software tools built on the macOS virtualization platform. It enables the execution of single or multi-use macOS virtual machines (VMs) in a manner similar to Docker....
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The ONLY Fully Automated Apple Silicon macOS VM Creation Solution
Starting in Anka 3.1 we announced that Anka is now able to fully automate the macOS installation processes, disabling SIP, and enabling VNC — all previously manual steps users had to perform inside o the VM. At the time of writing this article,...
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Scripting macOS UI User Actions With Anka Click
Starting in Anka 3.2, we’ve introduced a solution for scripting macOS UI user actions. You may ask, “Why would I want to do that?”. Well, often macOS configuration and applications do not have a CLI allowing you to perform certain actions...
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Anka 3.1- Fully automated VM macOS installation & The Behavior-Driven macOS UI Automation Framework
We are very happy to announce the General Availability of Anka 3.1 for Apple Silicon / ARM macs. In this release, we are taking our approach to iOS CI automation one step further by introducing a Behavior-Driven macOS UI Automation Framework in Anka,...
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