MacStadium Blog
The MacStadium customer portal is undergoing some major improvements, and more are slated to come. Learn about what's new in the portal in this post, and share your ideas for new features you'd like to see next!
Orka can scale to accommodate macOS and iOS CI processes from multiple teams within a single organization. Learn how to direct Jenkins workflows to specific nodes within your Orka cluster to avoid bottlenecking in this post.
Apple recently announced a new powerhouse in its desktop lineup – the Mac Studio. As the first to offer new Mac devices in the cloud, we are happy to announce that we expect to have bare metal, cloud-hosted Mac Studios generally available by Summer’s end.
MacStadium’s Orka is built on Kubernetes, and as such, users have access to the underlying cluster via a sandbox environment that is accessible within your Orka environment. In this post, we walk through deploying a Jenkins master in K8s locally with Minikube to demonstrate how this can be done in Orka to simplify networking between Jenkins elements for macOS and iOS CI/CD.
MacStadium, Inc., a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) leader delivering scalable and secure enterprise Mac cloud solutions,today announced the appointment of company veteran Tom Schnell to Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Customer Officer (CCO), a new role for the organization.
Prometheus and Grafana are the two most common tools used for monitoring Kubernetes clusters. Learn about these two tools, how they work, and how to get started using them in this post.
Scripting processes that call interactive CLIs can be time consuming and hard to get dialed in. Learn how to simplify such processes with Expect, a utility that ships with macOS, in this post.
The Orka Python SDK offers a simple and powerful means of interacting programmatically with all aspects of Orka, including the Orka API, the Kubernetes API, as well as the macOS VMs you create. Check out this post to learn more and see some example code to get you started.
Learn about the two major classes of data storage solutions available in Kubernetes in this post.
Orka 2.0 supports Apple Silicon! Learn about exciting new features this unlocks, and how Orka 2.0 compares to previous releases in this post.
Kubectl is one of the most popular and powerful ways of interacting with a Kubernetes cluster. Learn some core commands to get you started on the right foot in this blog post.
Node tagging is one of many exciting features in Orka 2.0. Learn the ins and outs of using tags to control your workflows in Orka in this post.
Learn how to leverage Brewfiles to install a large number of Hombrew packages at once.
One of the new, useful features of Orka 2.0 is VM scheduling. What is it and why should you care? Learn all about VM scheduling and how it can improve your Orka cluster.
That was an ULTRA fabulous Apple Event! As is the MacStadium way, our team's already placing orders and planning rack configs. We were the first to have M1s in the cloud, and we'll be the first for Mac Studio.