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January 26, 2021
in announcement, cirrus-cli, workers, macos
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New macOS task execution architecture for Cirrus CI

We are happy to announce that the macOS tasks on Cirrus CI Cloud have switched to a new virtualization technology as well as overall architecture of the orchestration. This switch should be unnoticeable for the end users except that the tasks should become much faster since now each macos_instance of the Cirrus CI Cloud offering will utilize a full Mac Mini with 12 virtual CPUs and 24G of RAM.

December 18, 2020
in announcement, cirrus-cli, workers
2 min read

Announcing public beta of Cirrus CI Persistent Workers

Cirrus CI pioneered an idea of directly using compute services instead of requiring users to manage their own infrastructure, configuring servers for running CI jobs, performing upgrades, etc. Instead, Cirrus CI just uses APIs of cloud providers to create virtual machines or containers on demand. This fundamental design difference has multiple benefits comparing to more traditional CIs: