Customer Testimonials
Orka on AWS
Orka uses the power of AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to manage macOS workflows and orchestrate your macOS VMs. Spend less time dealing with the complexities of managing macOS and orchestrating your CI workloads on local machines and spend more time building innovative apps with Orka running on AWS Mac infrastructure.
Faster, Better Performance with AWS and Orka
"In comparison to bare metal, the consensus with our team is that Orka on AWS is a much better experience – it's faster, the performance is better. We've been doing some really crazy testing and it's easy. We can just delete VMs and start again from scratch without it taking a long time. The joy of being able to create and delete Mac VMs is so much better than with VMware.
Getting started with Orka has been seamless with Amazon. There are a lot of advantages both on the technical side and on the business side. Our preferred vendor is AWS, so it’s nice that we can get Orka through the AWS Marketplace."
Digital Strategy and Agile Delivery Managing Consultant
Fortune 100 Multinational Technology Company
Powering an Energy Provider with Orka
A Fortune 500 company and one of America’s largest electric power and natural gas holding companies, with utilities serving over 10 million customers, is using Orka running on AWS to power their mobile development.
This company's team of mobile app developers previously built and managed their mobile apps on aging, self-hosted Mac minis. Despite having 15 apps in active development, this solution only allowed for up to 4 concurrent builds, which created bottlenecks and major losses in developer productivity. As their mobile app development team continued to grow alongside projects, their self-hosted Macs couldn’t keep up with demand.
On top of that, maintaining the host OSs as well as virtual OSs for iOS development had become overwhelming to the team, and they began looking for cloud-based solutions that would bring them in line with the rest of their enterprise CI/CD on AWS.
The team needed something more scalable and reliable to support their mobile app development. They needed to double capacity to account for expected team growth and relieve CI/CD bottlenecks. And most importantly, they needed to do it all on AWS infrastructure to achieve security and finance compliance. For Fortune 500 companies, maintaining top security standards is crucial. Balancing that with financial goals can be a challenge, but Orka combined with AWS helps accomplish both.
The team chose AWS and Orka to maintain enterprise compliance without compromising on performance. Thanks to easy access on the AWS Marketplace, the team was quickly able to start seeing results with Orka.
With Orka running on AWS, the team was able to move CI/CD for all 15 of their mobile apps to the cloud, while maintaining integrations that require containerized macOS, and becoming more compliant with security and finance guidelines.
“I just reviewed the build phases in our old system compared to what we have seen in our new setup with Jenkins, Orka, and AWS. We’ve typically seen a 30 to 40 percent improvement in build times which brings down the total length of the pipeline,” remarked a DevOps engineer on the team.
Running Orka on AWS allows this energy leader to provide their mobile development team with the ability to scale to hundreds of nodes while keeping enterprise-grade performance.
"With AWS and Orka, we've seen a 30 to 40 percent improvement in build times which brings down the total length of the pipeline."
DevOps Engineer
Fortune 500 Energy Provider
Get started with Orka on AWS
MacStadium is proud to be an AWS Partner, and adding Orka to your AWS account is easy. Visit the Orka site in the AWS Marketplace or contact our sales team to learn more.
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