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# MacStadium cloud hosting for Apple hardware

> MacStadium hosts Apple hardware for enterprise: bare metal Macs, Orka macOS virtualization, and cloud access, in MacStadium data centers, AWS, or on-prem.

MacStadium enables organizations to achieve seamless macOS workload orchestration and virtualization at scale, whether for CI/CD build-and-test pipelines or full-fidelity virtual desktop environments. We deliver purpose-built software that integrates control-plane orchestration and hypervisor-level virtualization on Apple hardware, with deployment options available in our data centers, public cloud, or on-premises.

## Software Solutions

### Orka: macOS VM Orchestration & Virtualization

* **Control Plane**
  * Centralized orchestration of macOS VMs
  * k8s native to integrate with popular tooling
  * Native CI plugins to support common tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bitrise, and more
* **Virtualization Engine**
  * Lightweight hypervisor running on Mac nodes
  * Rapid VM spin-up/down with dynamic resource allocation
  * Built-in support for networking, storage attach, and hardware passthrough

### Citrix with MacStadium

* **VDI User Experience**\
  Leverage Citrix DaaS to provide the desktop management and Orka to enable portable macOS VMs

## Deployment Flexibility

1. **Public Cloud**
   1. Run our software on AWS with bare-metal Mac EC2 instances
   2. Leverage managed Kubernetes services like Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE to orchestrate macOS workloads
2. **On-Premises**
   1. Integrate with your existing data center Mac infrastructure
   2. Leverage self-hosted or managed k8s systems to orchestrate macOS workloads
3. **Hosted by MacStadium**
   1. Choose from one of our global data centers for turnkey management

## Bare Metal & IaaS

While our software is the focus, we continue to offer:

* **Mac Bare-Metal & IaaS**
  * Dedicated Mac hardware on demand
  * Private networks, firewalls, and storage expansion
  * Non-mac compute for general-purpose use cases (Private Cloud Compute)

## Why MacStadium?

* **Apple-Native Expertise**\
  Deep specialization in macOS virtualization and lifecycle operations
* **End-to-End Control**\
  Full stack designed for macOS workloads, from Application-level APIs to hypervisor to hardware.
* **Scalable & Secure**\
  Tenant isolation, private networking, and enterprise-grade SLAs
* **Choice & Portability**\
  Consistent software across clouds, on-prem, or hosted environments