Today, we are announcing the availability of Anka Beta version 1 build 41 to all the beta users. Please check your email for the download link. New users can sign up at www.veertu.com. In this update, we have added some pretty cool feature updates to Anka macOS VMs configuration, that are directly relevant to use cases for enabling DevOps to setup a macOS on-premise CI infrastructure to test their enterprise wide deployment scripts, upgrade processes etc for Mac workstations. These features were implemented based on beta user feedback.
Check out the version 1 build 41 release notes for more details.
Let’s take an example: You are an enterprise with a large deployment mac hardware(laptops etc) being used by the employees. The portfolio of Mac hardware being used can be a mix of different models. Now, you have a set of bootstrap actions that need to take place on every employee mac or a set of macs. For example, applications deployed, permissions etc. Before rolling out any new changes to your bootstrap process, you want to test it. Because once it’s rolled out to thousand of employees, the cat is out of the bag and it can be challenging to roll back the changes if they don’t work as designed.
In this case, you can take your cluster of Mac test hardware, deploy Anka Build on it to transform into a self-service macOS cloud. Now, use this infrastructure to do CI testing of your employee mac machine bootstrap process’. Spin up reproducible, sterile Anka macOS VMs on-demand and simulate testing on different models by modifying hw.product, hw.family, hw.uuid etc. parameters for the Anka VMs.
