Dedicated hosts for macOS are now available on CircleCIThis new offering provides Apple developers with unprecedented build capacity, flexibility,and enhanced testing functionalities
SAN FRANCISCO, February 15, 2022 --Today CircleCI, the leading continuous
integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, announced enhanced developer
support for macOS through dedicated hosts.
This means that the more than 30 million developers who build using Apple systems
now have 24 hour, continuous access to a bare metal instance that enables enhanced
testing, security, and storage functionalities to help them grow and improve their apps
and user experiences.
CircleCI offers superior cross-platform support to provide Apple developers with theflexibility and convenience required to build, test, and ship quality code. As consumer
use of Apple products reached record-breaking highs during the pandemic (source),these developers are under more pressure than ever to ensure they are meeting andexceeding expectations in user experience, security, and speed.
Benefits of CircleCI’s dedicated hosts for macOS allow developers to:
1. Monitor performance of multiple platforms in the same pipeline: CircleCI isone of the only CI providers that offer Linux, Windows and Mac support. Teams
can run macOS jobs on the same pipeline as their Linux or Android projects toensure consistency and monitor issues across repos with a single tool. This is a
key strength for developers building cross-platform mobile applications, allowing
greater flexibility and faster time to market.
2. Run resource-intensive builds more efficiently: Unlike other cloud-based CI
solutions in the market that rely on Virtual Machines, CircleCI’s dedicated hosts
are equipped with 50% more cores and more than twice the storage capacity.
Customers are also able to access the hardware’s GPU to enable end-to-end
testing, which is especially valuble for teams building video or audio applications.
This is a competitive and compelling testing functionality that is exclusive toCircleCI and is not available with any other macOS offering in the market.
3. Access secure and clean environments for every build: All jobs will run on adedicated, isolated host machine for airtight code security. This ensures reliable,
repeatable builds every time a job is run, ultimately encouraging developer
confidence and productivity.

This comes on the heels of the leading CI/CD provider’s new Free plan, the mostintelligent, comprehensive, and affordable CI/CD plan on the market.
Video: https://youtu.be/AAAfQp3PviA
Blog post link: https://circleci.com/blog/dedicated-hosts-for-mac-os/
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the world's best engineering teams to radically reduce the time from idea to execution.
The company has been recognized as an innovative leader in cloud-native continuous
integration by independent research firms and industry awards like the DEVIES, Forbes’
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