Upgrade your entire Mac pipeline, not just the hardware

New Macs are here. 2027 planning is underway. Make this the year you upgrade the infrastructure layer, too.

New M5 and M6 Macs can give your CI pipeline faster compute. Orka helps you use that compute—and the Macs already in your fleet—more efficiently.

Add virtualization and orchestration to your Mac infrastructure to run clean, ephemeral build environments, pool compute across your fleet, and reduce the hands-on maintenance that slows engineering teams down.

New hardware is only part of the upgrade

As you're considering adding new M5 and M6 Macs to your Mac fleet and planning next year's budget, now is the time to consider upgrading your entire fleet by adding Orka.

Some of your Macs may need to be replaced. Others may have plenty of useful compute left. And your brand-new Macs will only be as efficient as the infrastructure you build around them.

Orka gives you another lever.

Instead of relying solely on a hardware refresh to improve your Mac CI pipeline, adding virtualization and orchestration across your fleet will maximize the impact of any new machines and make better use of the compute you already have.

New hardware + Orka = a complete pipeline uprade

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Get more from every Mac in your fleet

Put available compute to work

A faster Mac can process an individual CI job more quickly. Orka helps the entire fleet run more efficiently.

 

Orka pools resources across your Mac infrastructure and dynamically provisions macOS VMs for CI workloads. Instead of treating every Mac as an individual build machine, your hardware becomes a shared pool of compute.

 

That means the Macs you're buying this year—and the ones you're keeping—can work together as modern CI infrastructure.

Every build starts clean

Persistent build machines accumulate history. Dependencies linger. Configurations drift. Packages change. Temporary fixes become permanent ones. Eventually, your team is debugging the build machine instead of the build.

 

Orka lets you provision ephemeral macOS VMs from standardized images.

Deploy > Build > Tear down > Repeat

 

Each job can start from a known state, helping eliminate machine-specific inconsistencies and making it easier to determine whether a failure came from the code or the environment.

Make maintenance manageable at scale

More Macs shouldn't automatically mean more infrastructure work.

 

Orka helps reduce the host-by-host management that comes with a growing fleet of persistent build machines. Standardized environments help reduce drift, while virtualized workloads make it easier to manage capacity and take physical hosts offline when they need attention.

 

Hardware still needs maintenance. But your entire pipeline doesn't have to revolve around it.

Run Orka where your Macs already live

Your infrastructure strategy shouldn't have to change just to adopt virtualization.

 

Orka can bring macOS virtualization and orchestration to Macs across your infrastructure strategy—including hardware you manage on-prem, dedicated Mac infrastructure in a private cloud, and supported public cloud environments.

 

Already have a fleet you want to keep? Bring Orka to it.

Planning to add new Macs? Orka can help you get more from those, too.
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One 2027 budget. Two ways to improve your pipeline.

If your plan for next year is simply “replace old Macs with faster Macs,” you're improving one layer of your CI infrastructure.

Consider what happens if you invest across two.

Invest in hardware where it matters.

Replace aging machines or add new M5 and M6 Macs where your team needs additional performance and capacity.

Invest in the infrastructure layer.

Add Orka to virtualize and orchestrate Mac compute across your fleet, including hardware that doesn't need to be replaced yet.

Instead of treating the hardware refresh as the entire infrastructure strategy, use it as an opportunity to modernize how your Mac fleet operates.

You don't have to replace every Mac to upgrade your entire pipeline.

Bring cloud-native workflows to Mac CI

Orka is a Kubernetes-native macOS virtualization and orchestration platform built for teams developing on Apple platforms.

Use it to dynamically provision macOS VMs and integrate virtualized Mac compute into the CI/CD workflows your team already uses. And because Orka resources are Kubernetes-native, teams also have the option to use familiar k8s commands to manage their Mac infrastructure.

Orka integrates with popular CI tools, including:

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The new Macs are fast. Make sure your infrastructure can keep up.

You're already deciding what your Mac infrastructure should look like in 2027.

Don't just upgrade the machines.

Use this planning cycle to build a Mac CI environment that makes better use of your hardware, gives every build a clean start, and is easier to operate as your needs grow.

See what your Mac fleet could look like with Orka.

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