MacStadium

““Now, we don’t need to worry at all because every machine in the cluster can run any version of Swift,” said Sven. “And that’s a huge time and maintenance saver and helps your ease of mind. It’s really steady, churning through the builds and getting them all done.””

““We couldn’t be more pleased with this huge upgrade to our build capability. We also want to thank MacStadium so much for coming up with a way to make this work for an open-source project like this. The team there has been a pleasure to work with for many years, and every request we make has been met with a ‘let’s find a way’ attitude.””

““The great thing about it is that it took no intervention. The processing of the backlog and the production workload was entirely running on its own, where normally that would be tricky. With our previous setup, we could not have done the Ready for Swift 6 Project.””

““[Orka] gives us possibilities for the future. Until now, we simply couldn’t support packages that needed any kind of operating system dependency to be installed. With fresh VMs per build, that’s now something we could start to build.””

““Thanks to Orka, we now have zero long-running Mac build machines, which means virtually no maintenance and no instability caused by machines running for weeks at a time,””

““It’s virtually instant [starting Orka VMs] and is really impressive.””

“The machines were very helpful for our students and worked perfectly. To be honest, it slipped my mind that we even were using them for most of the semester because I experienced no issues. It just runs,”

“The machines were very helpful for our students, and they worked perfectly.”

“"Including Orka as part of our CI pipeline provides us with full control over our macOS build environments. This autonomy has helped to accelerate our ability to adopt new tools and update our technology stack, without relying on cross-functional dependencies."”

““With the help of Orka, we now have full control over our macOS build environments,” said Galluccio. “This autonomy has helped to accelerate our ability to adopt new tools and update our technology stack, without relying on cross-functional dependencies.””

““Partnering with MacStadium and adopting Orka has helped us enhance our ability to scale our macOS infrastructure,” said Daniele Galluccio, Engineering Lead - Mobile Frameworks Lab / Digital Frameworks at Lloyds Banking Group. “Today, we can scale in a matter of days, enabling us to respond swiftly to business needs and market changes.””

“Orka gives us quick access to specific Mac resources, making it easier for us to iterate, stay ahead of releases, update our systems, and test beta software right when we need it.”

“Orka gives us exceptional control over agent availability," said Galperin. "Whether we’re spinning up resources for specific team requests, rolling out operating system updates, or conducting experimental testing, we can create and customize new images to exact specifications and deploy them whenever needed. Speed and reliability are key when spinning up VMs, and having the ability to quickly build environments to our team's standards has helped us stay ahead of schedule and meet our goals efficiently.”

“This is definitely saving us money overall,”

“"The Interactive Labs powered by MacStadium gave Jamf the opportunity to pioneer new technology and offer a first of its kind experience for Mac admins."”

““This was the most successful user experience we had at a conference and we’re looking forward to partnering with MacStadium for 2021.””

““Without MacStadium, we would have had to retire an entire track of our conference. The Interactive Labs powered by MacStadium gave Jamf the opportunity to pioneer new technology and offer a first of its kind experience for Mac admins.””

““The process of creating and refreshing instances was minutes, a significant reduction compared to doing the same thing on bare metal.””

““The MacStadium team stood by our side the entire time supporting us whenever we needed it.””

““After some hard work by the MacStadium product team, it was very straightforward to learn and teach out,””

“After a few weeks of real usage of the environments, we understood that we were right by moving to MacStadium.”

“"One of the biggest impacts we’ve seen is seeing results right away with Orka. It has really reduced the time that it takes to do the development of the tests.””

““With MacStadium, we can run tests and install software, then shut it down,” says Sean Torpey, Director of Quality Engineering at HYPR. “It opened up a lot of automation opportunities for the Mac side of things, like running simulator tests in Xcode. It's the best place for us to do Mac version and Mac browser testing.””

““Before with VMware, we were manually managing all the OSs. Now with Orka, we can just pull the new images whenever we want. Orka made it easier for us to dynamically scale up and down workers to spin up more QA automations.””

““We built our own system around Orka . It’s a central part of it in that when a CI job comes in, we spin up a VM, run it, and then tear down a VM. Orka is a big reason why that’s been possible,” said Bo Anderson, Homebrew Maintainer.”