Mac hosted agents
Mac instances for Buildkite hosted agents are only offered with Apple silicon architecture. Please contact support if you have specific needs for Intel machines.
To accommodate different workloads, instances are capable of running up to 4 hours. If you require longer running agents please contact support.
Size
We offer a selection of instance sizes, allowing you to tailor your hosted agent resources to the demands of your jobs. Below is a breakdown of the available sizes.
| Size | vCPU | RAM |
|---|---|---|
| Small | 4 | 7 GB |
| Medium | 6 | 14 GB |
| Large | 12 | 28 GB |
Mac instances software support
The following software will be made available by default on all standard Mac instances during the trial. If you have specific requirements for software that is not listed here, please contact support.
Updated Xcode versions will be available one week after Apple offers them for download. This includes Beta, Release Candidate (RC), and official release versions.
System software
- macOS 14.5
- Darwin Kernel 23.5.0
- Rosetta 2
- Bash 3.2.57
- Homebrew
Xcode
- Xcode 16.1-Beta
- Xcode 16.0-Beta6
- Xcode 16.0-Beta5
- Xcode 16.0-Beta4
- Xcode 16.0-Beta3
- Xcode 16.0-Beta2
- Xcode 15.4
- Xcode 15.4-Beta
- Xcode 15.3
- Xcode 15.2
- Xcode 15.1
- Xcode 14.3.1
Apple runtimes
- iOS 15.5
- iOS 16.2
- iOS 16.4
- iOS 17.2
- iOS 17.4
- iOS 17.5-beta2
- iOS 17.5
- iOS 18.0-beta4
- iOS 18.1-beta
- watchOS 9.4
- watchOS 10.2
- watchOS 10.4
- watchOS 10.5
- watchOS 11.0-beta7
- tvOS 16.4
- tvOS 17.2
- tvOS 17.4
- tvOS 17.5
- tvOS 18.0-beta7
- visionOS 1.0
- visionOS 1.1
- visionOS 1.2
- visionOS 2.0-beta7
Other languages and compilers
- GCC 13
- Clang/LLVM 15
- .NET Core SDK 8
- Node 21
- Kotlin 1.9
- OpenJDK 21
- Go 1.21
- Perl 5.38
- PHP 8.3
- Python 3
- Ruby 3.3 & rbenv
- R 4.3
- Rust 1.75
Development tools
- Git
- Git LFS
- CocoaPods
- Ant
- Maven
- Mint
- Gradle
- Carthage
- CMake
- Yarn
- PNPM
- Bazel
- pkg-config
- xcbeautify
- swiftformat
Servers
- Apache HTTPD
- NGINX
- Postgres 14.12
Browser automation
- Safari 17.1
- Chrome 121
- ChromeDriver
- Selenium Server
Assorted tools
- AWS CLI
- Azure CLI
- CodeQL
- Bicep CLI
- fastlane
- GitHub CLI
- 7-zip
- Aria2
- azcopy
- wget
- GnuPG
- GNU Tar
- jq
- yq
- OpenSSL
- Packer
- zstd
- nsc
- unxip
- PowerShell
- tmux
- Docker CLI
- 1Password CLI
- ns
Libraries
- libpq
- GMP
Git mirror cache
The Git mirror cache is a specialized type of cache volume designed to accelerate Git operations by caching the Git repository between builds. This is useful for large repositories that are slow to clone.
These volumes are attached on a best-effort basis depending on their locality, expiration and current usage, and therefore, should not be relied upon as durable data storage. By default, a Git mirror cache is created for each repository.
Enabling Git mirror cache
To enable Git mirror cache for your hosted agents:
- Select Agents in the global navigation to access the Clusters page.
- Select the cluster in which to enable the Git mirror cache feature.
- Select Cache Storage, then select the Settings tab.
- Select Enable Git mirror, then select Save cache settings to enable Git mirrors for the selected hosted cluster.
Once enabled, the Git mirror cache will be used for all hosted jobs using Git repositories in that cluster. A separate cache volume will be created for each repository.
Deleting Git mirror cache
Deleting a cache volume may affect the build time for the associated pipelines until the new cache is established.
To delete a git mirror cache:
- Select Agents in the global navigation to access the Clusters page.
- Select the cluster whose Git mirror cache is to be deleted.
- Select Cache Storage, then select the Volumes tab to view a list of all exiting cache volumes.
- Select Delete for the Git mirror cache volume you wish to remove.
- Confirm the deletion by selecting Delete Cache Volume.