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Runner SaaS for macOS (Beta)

Status update 2021-07-19

PM decision to delay start of beta to 14.2, 2021-08-22. The rationale is that we have to complete a few critical pre-requisites required to onboard customers.

Beta Onboarding (target start = 2021-08-22)

  • To help ensure the best possible experience for customers and the open-source projects on GitLab.com, access to the beta is limited.

  • We will begin onboarding new customers to the beta starting on August 22, 2021 (GitLab 14.2).

  • To sign up, open an issue in this project and select the the beta_access_request template.

  • We will use that issue to communicate your onboarding status and provide other details for the use of the macOS Build Cloud Beta.

  • Pricing details for the macOS Build Cloud will be made available in conjunction with general availability (GA)

  • If you have any questions about our plans Beta or would like to discuss specific requirements for your team, please mention @DarrenEastman on this issue.

Release notes:

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Problem to solve

As a user of GitLab.com, I want to build my macOS CI jobs without needing to set up a macOS build environment and macOS Runner.

Intended users

Sasha (Software Developer) Devon (DevOps Engineer)

User experience

  • For the beta, customers that host their project repositories on GitLab.com (SaaS), will be able to execute a macOS build job by including a tag in the .gitlab-ci.yml file that identifies that the job requires a macOS build environment.

  • Each job will be executed on a new, automatically provisioned virtual machine, that is deleted on completion of the job.

  • The GitLab Runner on the macOS VM will be configured to use the shell executor.

  • For the open beta, each macOS VM will be pre-installed with the tooling required to build apps for the Apple ecosystem. Refer to this issue for additional details regarding the image contents.

  • The job will have full access to the macOS virtual machine.

  • For the Open Beta, only one standard VM type will be offered. The specs for the VM offered at beta launch = 2vCPUs, 8 GB RAM, 14 GB storage available for builds.

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