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 16.0-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
  • watchOS 9.4
  • watchOS 10.2
  • watchOS 10.4
  • watchOS 10.5-beta2
  • watchOS 10.5
  • watchOS 11.0
  • tvOS 16.4
  • tvOS 17.2
  • tvOS 17.4
  • tvOS 17.5-beta2
  • tvOS 17.5
  • tvOS 18.0
  • visionOS 1.0
  • visionOS 1.1
  • visionOS 1.2
  • visionOS 2.0

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
  • 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