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terraform
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
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Docker-OSX
Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers.
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cua
Open-source infrastructure for Computer-Use Agents. Sandboxes, SDKs, and benchmarks to train and evaluate AI agents that can control full desktops (macOS, Linux, Windows).
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lume
Discontinued Create and run high-performance macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon, with built-in support for AI agents. [Moved to: https://github.com/trycua/cua]
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- Following acquisition by OpenAI, Tart is still proprietary software
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MacOS Workers, or how I built my own Mac cloud
Tart is a small open-source CLI built by the Cirrus Labs folks that wraps Apple's Virtualization.framework. You give it an OCI-compatible image (basically a tarball with the macOS VM disk), it spins up a VM on Apple Silicon hardware in seconds. The image is reusable, you can layer on top of it, and it's the closest thing to "docker, but for macOS VMs" that exists today.
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Jenkins as a Code, or how I stopped clicking around in the UI
macOS workers are their own special kind of hell. You can't just spin up a Mac VM in AWS the same way you spin up Linux. There's a whole ecosystem of hypervisors, licensing rules, and hardware constraints to deal with. This deserves its own post — and it's getting one. Part 2 will be all about macOS workers: Tart, virtualization on Apple Silicon, the trade-offs between self-hosted and cloud-mac providers, and how to make signing and notarization not feel like a horror movie.
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Show HN: Lumier – Run macOS VMs in a Docker
The title is a bit misleading then :)
What’s the difference between this vs just using your lume CLI? Right now it feels like a worse interface to lume, but maybe I’m not getting a use case for this.
Also, any thoughts on https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart? (alas, not open source)
- Tart: macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon
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Cheetah: A Lightweight Virtual Machine Manager for macOS
the inability to log in with an Apple ID in a MacOS VM is a decision made by Apple. you can certainly sign without logging in, but I don't think you can submit to the store in a VM.
you can see how they build tart here, including signing and entitlements and so on: https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart/blob/main/.cirrus.yml
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Apple M1 Mac as a Service
Boots in 5 minutes, minimum allocation of 24 hours, is "low stock" if you actually try to allocate one, and was recently "no stock". I'd be unsure if its actually available when you need it.
Would be nice to see a Virtualization.Framework as a service, such as with Tart [1], but perhaps there are performance and security issues when making those M1s multi-tenant. The license limits it to a maximum of two guest systems, and only for the purposes of software development and testing [2].
[1] https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart/
[2] https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOSVentura.pdf#page=2 (2B iii)
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Anyone using QEMU arch64 on Apple M2/M1
I haven’t used UTM personally so I can’t vouch for that. There is also Tart.
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CI/ CD with Gitlab for Flutter
For a full reproducible solution, I thought of this: https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart
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openai/tart is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of tart is Swift.
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