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Jeff Vincent

Jeff Vincent

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Apple Silicon-Compatible macOS Virtualization Types Available Through MacStadium

Apple Silicon-Compatible macOS Virtualization Types Available Through MacStadium

Are you ready to move your iOS and macOS CI to Apple Silicon? We’ve got two Apple Silicon-compatible virtualization platforms to choose from: Orka and Anka. Learn which might be right for your team in this post.

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Getting Started with Helm Charts

How to K8s: Getting Started with Helm Charts

Helm simplifies the process of maintaining and deploying large numbers of K8s resources by bundling them up into a single package called a Helm Chart that can be configured easily for different environments. Learn how to get started with Helm in this post.

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Building Docker images on M1 with buildx

Building Docker Images on Apple Silicon with buildx

If you're working on a Mac equipped with Apple Silicon and you leverage Docker, there's a good chance you'll run into the issue of your Docker images not working in certain contexts. Learn how to target multiple system architectures while building Docker images on M1 with Docker's buildx tool in this post.

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Getting Started with Docker-Compose

Getting Started with Docker-Compose

Docker-Compose fills the gap between running single Docker containers and enterprise-grade container orchestration engines like Kubernetes. With it, you can run multiple containers as services on a default network, so the services can communicate. Learn the basics of this powerful tool in this blog post.

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Xcode 14 Beta Release Overview

Xcode 14 Improves the Developer Experience

This latest Xcode release is packed with great new functionality that makes developing for iOS and macOS even better. We highlight some of the best new features in this post.

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Getting Started with asdf

Getting Started with asdf for Tool and Runtime Management

Managing multiple versions of tools and runtimes can get complex fast -- particularly when you have to automate the execution of code with multiple versions of a runtime for CI. To simplify this, we take a look at a version management tool called asdf in this blog post.

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MacDevOps YVR 2022 Roundup

MacStadium is a proud sponsor of the annual MacDevOps YVR conference that wrapped up this past week. We call out a few of our favorite talks from this excellent knowledge sharing event in this post.

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Illustration of iMacs with virtual machines

Understanding Containers and Virtual Machines

Containers and virtual machines (VMS) serve similar purposes, but they are fundamentally different, which can be confusing at first. Learn about how they each work and which use cases each is best suited to in this post.

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Jenkins Configure Clouds screenshot with Orka logo

Passing Jenkins Workflows to Specific Nodes in Orka

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.

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