macOS Packer Templates for Tart

Repository with Packer templates to build macOS Tart virtual machines to use with Cirrus Runners, Cirrus CI or any other automation.

The following image variants are currently available:

• macos-{tahoe,sequoia,sonoma}-vanilla — a vanilla macOS installation with helpful tweaks such as auto-login, but no additional software preinstalled
• macos-{tahoe,sequoia,sonoma}-base — based on macos-{tahoe,sequoia,sonoma}-vanilla image, it comes with brew and other useful software pre-installed, but without Xcode
• macos-{tahoe,sequoia,sonoma}-xcode:N — based on macos-{tahoe,sequoia,sonoma}-base image and has Xcode N with Flutter pre-installed
• macos-runner:{tahoe,sequoia,sonoma} — a variant of xcode:N with several versions of Xcode pre-installed and xcodes tool to switch between them.

See a full list of VMs available here.

Release Cadence

Once a new version of Xcode is released, we will initiate a GitHub release which will automatically build and push a new version of the macos-{tahoe,sequoia}-xcode:N. This generally happens the next weekend after a release. Please watch this repository releases to get notified about new images.

Update Cadence

Some of the images are regularly getting rebuild in order to update the pre-installed packages.

This configuration file defines images that are getting rebuilt monthly on the first Saturday of the month.