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, we are still the ONLY Fully Automated Apple Silicon macOS VM Creation […]
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 such as toggling options on and off. This varies from app to app and […]
Real-time, continuous scan of file downloads on macOS for security vulnerabilities
Today, we are announcing the Beta availability of the Mac Scan solution. Mac Scan software runs on macOS systems (bare metal, virtual, EC2 Mac) and scans downloads in real time for security vulnerabilities. There are multiple scenarios why you would want to scan downloads in real-time for security vulnerabilities. Build and Test iOS and macOS […]
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, enabling scripting and automation of any user interactions in your Anka 3.1 […]
Migrating from Anka on Intel to Anka on M1 Mac for iOS CI
In this blog, we will cover the key topics for migrating from Anka on Intel to Anka on M1/M2 Macs. Anka is an IaaC solution from Veertu to set up an agile Container like CI for iOS CI using macOS VMs. Anka for Intel uses Apple’s Hypervisor.Framework virtualization APIs of macOS. With ARM chip-based Apple […]
World’s first Security Vulnerability scanner for EC2 Mac AMIs
We are excited to announce the General Availability of the world’s first security vulnerability scanner for EC2 Mac AMIs. EC2 Mac AMI Scan scans Intel and Apple Silicon macOS EC2 AMIs, detects security vulnerabilities in third-party packages, dependencies, and libraries, and generates formatted and human-readable reports. It’s like the container registry scanner but for your […]
It’s time to migrate your iOS CI from ESXi Virtual Mac Infrastructure to native macOS Virtualization
When VMWare ESXi started officially supporting Apple macOS Virtualization on Mac hardware in late 2012, it opened the doors for the possibility of iOS development to move to a Linux-like, agile, scalable CI infrastructure. Soon enough, many iOS enterprise development teams started to run their iOS CI build and test workloads in ESXi VMs on […]
Security vulnerability scanning with Anka Scan
We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Anka Scan v1.0.0. As development teams increasingly adopt Infrastructure-as-code for development and production, the incident with Log4J in December 2021 highlighted the importance of security vulnerability scanning in development and production. Developers will not stop using existing libraries and frameworks; however, organizations will need to […]
Hourly priced Anka AWS Marketplace AMIs for running type 2 macOS virtualization on AWS EC2 Macs
We are announcing the availability of Anka software with hourly usage pricing for AWS EC2 Mac deployments to align with currently available ec2-mac instance usage models. Why do users need to run Anka on top of ec2-mac instances? AWS ec2-mac instance runs on top of a dedicated mac host machine. Provisioning and de-provisioning of these […]
Announcing M1 (ARM) macOS type 2 virtualization with Anka v3.0.0
We at Veertu are excited to announce that Anka 3 for M1 macOS type 2 virtualization is now out of beta and is GA. Anka 3 for M1 is a type 2 virtualization solution that uses the new Apple Virtualization Framework released in macOS Monterey to create and run macOS VMs on M1 Macs. Anka […]