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What's a serious use case for this?

by anonu 6y ago

brodouevencode 6y ago
We have an internal application that would benefit from having local access to our network infrastructure (VPC) without needing a VPN.
mark242 6y ago
CI/CD for iOS, MacOS, and React Native builds. Right now the pricing for Mac instances for builds via Github, Gitlab, Circle, etc are ludicrous. For a certain developer velocity, these instances will probably be much, much cheaper than running builds through the CI/CD SaaS providers.
- joana035 6y ago
  Sorry, but dedicated hosts are expensive AF, it is not a virtual machine, you pay for the hardware.
  - detaro 6y ago
    $26 per day according to TC, for a full Mini (6 core i7/32 GB RAM). If you do enough that you can get high utilization that is cheaper than the CI services. (e.g. travis wants close to double for 2 vCore/8GB VMs) EDIT: On the other hand, renting a physical machine at Macstadium is a lot cheaper, so you'll want to have the AWS integration or some flexibility...
ravedave5 6y ago
Builds without having to maintain your own macs.
chadash 6y ago
I have the same question. Why would I want this over a Linux instance (assuming the latter is cheaper)?
- cercatrova 6y ago
  You can't build for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS on a Linux machine. Well, not legally / non-hackily anyway.
guitarsteve 6y ago
Build/CI systems for Mac and iOS apps, I would guess. Definitely not for running generic web apps.
gigel82 6y ago
Custom CI agents perhaps. Or maybe on-demand / shared build / debugging machines for a development shop that does mostly cross-platform mobile development and (very) occasionally encounters ios-specific bugs.
jcims 6y ago
Fuzzing binaries comes to mind as well.
notsureaboutpg 6y ago
Build servers for iOS apps, it can also be part of a CI/CD flow for mobile or cross-platform apps because you need to be running MacOS to upload apps to App Store Central
troupe 6y ago
Automated testing using browsers on target operating systems as well as other testing that requires the target operating system. CI/CD pipelines using Mac build tools is another.
jaaron 6y ago
As with everyone else, the answer is CI/CD. Having run a team that built out its own Mac build farm... it's a pain.

What's a serious use case for this?

by anonu 6y ago

What's a serious use case for this?

We have an internal application that would benefit from having local access to our network infrastructure (VPC) without needing a VPN.

mark242 6y ago

CI/CD for iOS, MacOS, and React Native builds. Right now the pricing for Mac instances for builds via Github, Gitlab, Circle, etc are ludicrous. For a certain developer velocity, these instances will probably be much, much cheaper than running builds through the CI/CD SaaS providers.

joana035 6y ago
Sorry, but dedicated hosts are expensive AF, it is not a virtual machine, you pay for the hardware.
- detaro 6y ago
  $26 per day according to TC, for a full Mini (6 core i7/32 GB RAM). If you do enough that you can get high utilization that is cheaper than the CI services. (e.g. travis wants close to double for 2 vCore/8GB VMs) EDIT: On the other hand, renting a physical machine at Macstadium is a lot cheaper, so you'll want to have the AWS integration or some flexibility...

ravedave5 6y ago

Builds without having to maintain your own macs.

chadash 6y ago

I have the same question. Why would I want this over a Linux instance (assuming the latter is cheaper)?

cercatrova 6y ago
You can't build for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS on a Linux machine. Well, not legally / non-hackily anyway.

guitarsteve 6y ago

Build/CI systems for Mac and iOS apps, I would guess. Definitely not for running generic web apps.

gigel82 6y ago

Custom CI agents perhaps. Or maybe on-demand / shared build / debugging machines for a development shop that does mostly cross-platform mobile development and (very) occasionally encounters ios-specific bugs.

jcims 6y ago

Fuzzing binaries comes to mind as well.

notsureaboutpg 6y ago

Build servers for iOS apps, it can also be part of a CI/CD flow for mobile or cross-platform apps because you need to be running MacOS to upload apps to App Store Central

troupe 6y ago

Automated testing using browsers on target operating systems as well as other testing that requires the target operating system. CI/CD pipelines using Mac build tools is another.

jaaron 6y ago

As with everyone else, the answer is CI/CD. Having run a team that built out its own Mac build farm... it's a pain.