The leading provider of mobile CI/CD solutions introduces a fully managed Apple Silicon and Linux infrastructure with a powerful execution layer for GitHub Actions.
/PRNewswire/ — Bitrisethe leading DevOps platform for mobile devices, announces the launch of its new product BitriseBuild Hub for GitHub known. Build Hub is a fully managed, mobile CI infrastructure for GitHub Actions that gives developers access to the fastest macOS machines (M4 Pro), pre-configured build environments, and automatic Xcode stack updates – all without complex migrations or reprogramming of workflows.
“Bitrise has spent a decade solving mobile application development and publishing problems for developers,” said Barnabas Birmacher, co-founder and CEO of Bitrise. “Now we’re making our fast, reliable and secure infrastructure capabilities available to the broader GitHub community.”
Relieving developers from the challenges of mobile development infrastructure
GitHub Hosted Runners lack basic mobile toolchains and the processing power required to process complex builds. Costly, self-hosted Mac fleets that consume developers’ time with system administration tasks and slow iterations have been the only alternative.
With Bitrise Build Hub, DevOps teams can now keep GitHub Actions as their CI orchestrator but route jobs to Bitrise’s mobile app development infrastructure.
Early adopters are seeing significant speed improvements. “Even the smaller VMs have GitHub Hosted Runners compared to macOS XL Performance increase of almost 30% “,” explained Daniel Gilbert, Mobile DevOps Developer at ForeFlight.
Excellent developer experience for the GitHub community
A recent analysis of several million anonymized Bitrise builds found that teams were able to reduce build times by an average of 28% when working on managed infrastructure specifically tailored for large-scale mobile app development.
Key benefits of Bitrise Build Hub include:
- Faster iteration: Bitrise provides the latest Apple Silicon M4 Pro and M2 Pro machines for faster builds. The build virtual machines (VMs) are pre-warmed (i.e. running in standby mode) and ready for use at any time, reducing build and queuing times and enabling faster feedback loops.
- No maintenance: Bitrise manages hardware, virtualization, and operating system updates, installing new versions of Xcode within 24 hours of Apple’s release. Ongoing Mac virtualization maintenance is complex, and Bitrise takes the burden off your plate with a fully managed service.
- Cellular enabled stacks: Xcode, iOS simulators, Android SDK and emulators, Fastlane, CocoaPods, SwiftLint, Gradle and cross-platform toolchains (React Native, Flutter) are preinstalled.
- Reasonable price-performance ratio: With granular Linux sizing (4-192 vCPU) and multiple Mac instance classes, teams can choose machines that fit their workload and budget without underperforming or overpaying for compute resources.
- Optional build cache: Combined with a shared build cache for Xcode, Gradle and Bazel, redundant work is reduced.
Further information can be found here.
Information about Bitrise
Founded in 2014, Bitrise is the leading mobile DevOps platform, supporting over 8,000 brands including ShopifyTripAdvisor und BuzzFeed. Bitrise brings together the tools, processes, and testing frameworks mobile teams need to develop and deliver world-class apps. The company is backed by Insight Partners, Open Ocean, Fiedler Capital and Y Combinator. For more information, see bitrise.io.
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