Orka 3.7.0-alpha is an early-access preview for evaluation, not a production release. Features, defaults, and behavior may change before general availability. It is not offered as an in-place upgrade; contact MacStadium support to take part in the alpha.
Orka 3.7.0-alpha
Release summary
Orka 3.7.0-alpha is an early-access release centered on Android emulator support: you can run Android emulators alongside your macOS VMs on Apple silicon nodes and reach them over ADB, so iOS and Android tests can share a single CI job. This release also adds operator metrics that surface VM deployment backlog earlier. It is a preview for evaluation and is not intended for production workloads.New features
Android emulators (early access)
This feature is in early access and is available on Apple silicon nodes only.
adb connect exactly as in any other Android CI setup. This is useful whenever you want iOS and Android tests in the same job without coordinating separate infrastructure.
You can deploy, list, and delete Android emulators through the Orka API and the orka3 emulator CLI. Platform, device profile, and image type are passed through to the Android SDK’s avdmanager and sdkmanager tooling, so any ARM-compatible combination those tools support works on a best-effort basis.
For setup, connection steps, and current limitations, see Android emulators on Orka.
Improvements
Observability
- The operator now reports a pending-VM queue-depth metric (a gauge counting VMs in
Pendingor pre-Runningstates) and adds avm_namespacelabel to its metrics. Together these give a leading indicator of VM deployment backlog before deployment durations start to climb. See Consuming metrics from Prometheus.