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June 10, 2021
New from Apple – CI/CD with Xcode Cloud

Announced at WWDC21, Xcode Cloud brings continuous integration and delivery into the hands of Xcode developers. Learn what we know so far as beta starts this week.

June 9, 2021
Flaky CI Tests: Costs, Causes and Solutions

Flaky CI tests can hurt developer confidence, and ultimately your team’s bottom line. Learn about common causes of flaky tests and how to resolve them.

May 13, 2021
MacStadium and Teradici to Enable High-Performance Remote Access for Mac

MacStadium and Teradici's partnership is here to provide users with the remote working experience for Macs that they have been waiting for.

May 11, 2021
Setting Up a MacStadium Hosted Mac mini as a Jenkins Build Agent

Follow this simple guide to add a MacStadium hosted Mac mini as a build agent to an existing Jenkins master.

May 7, 2021
Mitigate DevOps Tool Sprawl With Containers and Nested Virtualization

Learn about how containerizing portions of parallel CI/CD pipelines can help you reduce tool sprawl and your DevOps tool footprint.

May 3, 2021
Mailplane: Building an all-in-one Gmail app on a Mac mini

Mailplane allows you to easily manage your Gmail account with an all-in-one macOS app. Learn how Mailplane uses a Mac mini to build, test, and run analytics for their popular app.

April 28, 2021
GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runner for iOS CI at MacStadium

Learn how to set up a GitHub Actions self-hosted runner on a macOS compute resource hosted by MacStadium for simple, secure iOS and macOS CI.

April 27, 2021
MacStadium Named a 2021 TAG Top 40 Innovative Technology Company

MacStadium has been named one of the 2021 Top 40 Innovative Technology Companies in Georgia by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG).

April 23, 2021
Simple Optimizations for macOS and iOS Build Agents

Unlock your iOS and macOS CI build hardware’s full potential with these simple, free, automatable optimizations.

April 23, 2021
GPU Passthrough & Virtualization with Mac Private Clouds

Do you need to configure GPU passthrough for your virtual machine? Our recent webinar includes step-by-step instructions for Orka, VMware, and Anka.

April 20, 2021
Hybrid CI/CD Pipelines with Orka and Ansible

Managing hybrid CI/CD pipelines built on Orka with Ansible just got easier. Use our Ansible Dynamic Inventory plugin script to efficiently manage hybrid CI/CD pipelines built on Orka.

April 15, 2021
SwiftUI is Coming on Strong in the iOS World

The results of the 2020 iOS Developer Community Survey are out, we’re investigating the rise in popularity of SwiftUI over the past year and what's driving this change.

April 14, 2021
Choosing Your MacStadium Data Center Location

MacStadium has data centers in Atlanta, Las Vegas, Silicon Valley and Dublin, Ireland. Learn about latency and how it may play into your choice of a data center location with MacStadium.

April 7, 2021
MacStadium Supports the Open Source Community

Free and open source software is a major driver of innovation in the iOS and macOS space. Learn how MacStadium supports these essential contributions and how your open source project can benefit as well!

April 6, 2021
How To Upgrade to macOS Big Sur in Your VMware Cloud

If you are virtualizing macOS in VMware, it may be time to upgrade your environment. Xcode 12.5 is out in beta, and we have a rundown of the compatible VMware versions, and the steps to take to upgrade to them.