For Tart users looking ahead, Veertu's Anka product is still here
You may or may not have heard that the Cirrus Labs team behind Tart is shutting down Cirrus CI and abandoning Tart itself. They indicate Tart will be relicensed under a more permissive license as part of that transition, but from our experience that’s...
Next-Gen macOS GitHub Actions for Enterprises
In the dynamic world of software development, a streamlined Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline is the backbone of enterprises delivering reliable and efficient products. For macOS environments, the challenges of setting up and maintaining automation...
A Year of Anka: Highlights from 2024
We’re starting a new annual tradition here at Veertu with our A Year of Anka blog posts. We want our customers to know how the product has grown over the past year and think this is a great avenue to do so. Please enjoy and happy holidays from all...
It has been several years since we made our first side by side comparison between Anka and Orka. A lot has changed, and we believe it’s important to make sure the information out there is accurate. We’ll be specifically addressing a newer...
Large and complex enterprises using Anka have many different demands, and we have worked to continue to develop innovative technology to meet these demands. Enterprise infrastructure hardware is often on the cutting edge, and they need advanced capabilities...
Veertu’s Anka and the new Anka Cloud Gitlab Executor Veertu’s Anka is a suite of software tools built on the macOS virtualization platform. It enables the execution of single or multi-use macOS virtual machines (VMs) in a manner similar to Docker...
Real-Time CVE Scanning of your macOS Build Systems
It’s common that an organization’s macOS build system will download thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of third-party dependencies every hour. When building and testing iOS applications, it typically downloads and installs third-party...
The ONLY Fully Automated Apple Silicon macOS VM Creation Solution
Starting in Anka 3.1 we announced that Anka is now able to fully automate the macOS installation processes, disabling SIP, and enabling VNC — all previously manual steps users had to perform inside o the VM. At the time of writing this article,...
Scripting macOS UI User Actions With Anka Click
Starting in Anka 3.2, we’ve introduced a solution for scripting macOS UI user actions. You may ask, “Why would I want to do that?”. Well, often macOS configuration and applications do not have a CLI allowing you to perform certain actions...
Real-time, continuous scan of file downloads on macOS for security vulnerabilities
Today, we are announcing the Beta availability of the Mac Scan solution. Mac Scan software runs on macOS systems (bare metal, virtual, EC2 Mac) and scans downloads in real time for security vulnerabilities. There are multiple scenarios why you would...