GitLab.com SaaS runners on macOS Apple silicon (M1) - Beta
Status update (2023-02-12)
ETA for GitLab SaaS Runners on macOS limited availability is FY24 Q2 (May - Jul).
Release notes
Our [GitLab.com SaaS runners on macOS (Beta)] (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/runners/saas/macos_saas_runner) are now running on Apple Silicon (M1).
You can now build applications that require macOS in a secure, on-demand GitLab Runner build environment that's fully integrated with GitLab CI/CD with up to 3x the performance compared to x86.
Try out the new runners today by using saas-macos-medium-m1
as the tag in your .gitlab-ci.yml file.
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
User experience goal
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For LA, users in approved GitLab Premium, Ultimate and Open Source projects 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.
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Each job is executed on a new, automatically provisioned virtual machine hosted on Apple M1 servers.
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The virtual machine is deleted immediately upon job completion.
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The GitLab Runner on the macOS VM is configured to use the shell executor. The job will have full access to the macOS virtual machine.
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The VM is be pre-configured with the tooling required to build apps for the Apple ecosystem. Refer to the VM instances and images for SaaS runners on macOS page for image details.
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