Images

Running UI tests on an iOS app often means having a "clean room" server environment to run tests against. More and more, servers are using Docker to deploy bundle and run server instances. Unfortunately, the current macOS images don't have Docker pre-installed (even though the docs seem to indicate otherwise here: https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/docker-compose/ ) This is a request to ensure Docker is pre-installed onto the macOS images so iOS tests can spin up a server instance if needed. CCI-I-587

Apple makes it non-trivial to sign OS X applications and installers. As it stands, getting signing certificates from one development machine to another is an undertaking; getting them onto a macos executor is very difficult, especially if you're not building an XCode-based project (e.g. Electron apps), but increased security restrictions on each release of OS X makes it mandatory if you want to distribute your application. Providing a relatively easy way to import the signing certificates into a project's settings (as well as documentation on how to export the certificates properly) would be enormously helpful when building non-XCode applications and installers. CCI-I-797

We would love to be able to do something like: run: brew install docker # <- Install the docker command line tools- setup_remote_docker- run: docker run -d myservice # <- Runs on the remote docker daemon- run: curl $(docker-machine ip) # <- (example) Request remote myservice Our iOS workflow involves a couple of custom services, and it is extremely tedious to install and set them up on a macOS VM. We currently install the whole docker mac app inside of the executor each time, which works but takes up to 5mn (with cache) This is inspired by the fact that setup_remote_docker already "works" in the macOS executor but fails with the following error message. Allocating a remote Docker EngineGot error while creating host: failed to create host: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = An internal error occurred when provisioning resources for this job. Provisioning Service returned status code: 403We had an unexpected error preparing a VM for this build, potentially due to our infrastructure or cloud provider. Please retry the build in a few minutes CCI-I-657

Image would contain brew cask install visual-studio This would save the ~10 minutes it takes to install. source: https://discuss.circleci.com/t/add-macos-image-for-building-xamarin-apps/28817 CCI-I-931

To debug iOS Simulator issues (in our case an emoji that is not present in screen shot taken during UI tests), it became necessary to VNC into the machine as the distiller user who is running the tests. Currently one can only VNC into the machine as a newly created user with known password. There's no way to change the password for distiller or to get it.

The most recent MacOS builds have a specific Xcode and Node combination: 10.1.0: Xcode 10.1 (Build 10B61), Node 11.0.0 10.0.0: Xcode 10.0 (Build 10A255), Node 10.11.0 It would be nice to have nvm bundled as part of the stock image to provide flexibility in switching/installing different node versions similar to other node/linux images. CCI-I-762

Customers who want to use macOS but don't care about XCode would be happy to have a default value for which xcode to use. https://twitter.com/JakeBuildsStuff/status/1101035379732480001/ CCI-I-914

Some MacOS kernel extensions need to be turned on if one wants to redirect as microphone input any audio played in the machine. For example, one could play the audio "Red is a color", and the app would listen that as microphone input (also the iOS simulator). This kind of thing is particularly useful for testing any kind of speech-to-text capabilities. CCI-I-586

Since its popularity has grown to such a large scale, having SwiftLint installed by default on the machines could possibly save some resources used by all the jobs that require it to be installed on the fly. CCI-I-1145

The Xcode 10.3 image only includes iOS 12.4 as a simulator version, and Xcode 11 beta only has iOS 13.0 . Current workaround: Manually installing simulators from scratch CCI-I-1142