MacStadium

Great first day at MacAD.UK! If you're in Brighton, stop by and see the team tomorrow to learn how MacStadium can help you streamline MacOps in your enterprise. From DevOps to VDI to AI, we have a solution powered by Apple silicon.

Physical Macs don't scale. Every device is a snowflake, provisioning takes forever, and shipping hardware to remote teams is a logistical nightmare. Next week at MacAD.UK MacStadium will show you a better way. We've turned bare metal Macs into a full virtualization platform: golden image provisioning in minutes, centralized management, and no more touching hardware every time something breaks. If you've ever wished Mac VDI worked like Windows VDI, this demo is for you. Managing Mac Virtual Desktops at Scale 📅 April 21 | 4:30–5:10 PM | Demo Stage, Studio Theatre #MacADUK #MacStadium #MacVirtualization #AppleIT #VDI

Orka has been the enterprise Mac CI platform since before Tart existed. Orka gives you k8s-native Mac VM orchestration, true ephemeral builds, and infrastructure that scales without the DIY overhead. It runs on MacStadium-hosted hardware, AWS EC2, or your own data center. If your technical team is evaluating what comes next for your Mac CI pipeline, the docs are a solid starting point: https://bit.ly/4cJBwXk

IT teams are being asked to provision Mac desktops for offshore developers, creative teams, and remote workforces at scale. The tooling to do it well is still catching up. We put together a practical breakdown of the macOS VDI access tool landscape, from Citrix and Parsec to NoMachine and Apple Screen Sharing, covering what each tool actually does well, who it's built for, and where it falls short. If you're evaluating macOS VDI or supporting a team that is, it's worth a read. https://bit.ly/3OkBcVK

The Cirrus Labs team is joining OpenAI. They built Tart and Orchard, two tools that a lot of DevOps teams rely on today for Mac CI. It's a great move for them. And it raises a real question for teams running Tart+Orchard in production: what happens to the project now? We don't have that answer. But if you're evaluating your options, we wrote up our take on what this means for users. https://bit.ly/4t5YKgd

Security reviews are where a lot of tools get stuck. The question isn't whether Orka is secure. It's whether you can prove it to your InfoSec team. Orka is built for that conversation: role-based access control with namespace isolation, full audit logs, SSO/SAML, and corporate identity integration out of the box. That's not a checklist item. It's the difference between passing a security review and getting blocked by one. https://bit.ly/4tCdYcL

Life360 has 79 million monthly active users. Their iOS engineering team nearly doubled in 4 years. Their Orka workload? It tripled. They didn't need more people managing infrastructure. They needed infrastructure that scaled with them. Read the full story. Link in the comments.

The Orka GitHub Actions integration just got smarter. v1.1.11 switches VM lifecycle management from SSH-driven to event-driven. Dropped SSH connection? Your job keeps running. Job finishes? The VM cleans itself up. Orphaned VMs? Auto-deleted within 10 minutes. Less babysitting. More shipping. https://bit.ly/4mfRonN

50 years of Apple They built the hardware, the OS, and the chip architecture that now dominates mobile. Billions of people build, work, and create on what they made. We make sure enterprises can do it at scale. Here's to 50 more.

The MacBook Neo got the headlines. But equally as interesting for enterprise teams was Apple Business, a unified platform that folds Apple Business Manager, Essentials, and Connect into one place, with a free MDM tier included. For IT teams that have been putting off a Mac management strategy because of the cost, that excuse just got a lot harder to justify. Our March newsletter covers this and more, including: what to know about the A18 Pro and how Thumbtack cut their iOS build times in half by implementing infrastructure that moves with Apple's hardware roadmap — not behind it. Read it now at the link below.