[macOS] Add MacOS Big Sur for Azure Pipelines Hosted agents

[firaxis]

Hi!

I wanted to ask, do you have any plans to add macOS 11 support on your hosted agents ?
GHA have it in preview, and we would like too.

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Update from repo owners:
Hello everyone!

Just an update on this thread. Starting from today, macOS 11 is publicly available for all Azure DevOps users 🚀
You should specify macos-11 image spec to use the new image.
macos-latest image spec still points to the macos-10.15. We will notify about switching macos-latest later this year.

Thank you for everyone for your patience. We will work to make sure that MacOS 12 is available faster.

Note: Availability of macOS 11 in Azure DevOps doesn't mean that the new image will be available in App Center immediately. App Center team has to perform some work on their side to make sure that new Xcode versions are available in App Center Build.

[maxim-lobanov]

Hello, Thank you for raising feature request!
We definitely have a plan to add MacOS 11.0 to Azure DevOps but unfortunately can't provide ETA right now.
Let's keep this issue opened and we will post update as soon as we have

[Jon889]

Is there any update on this?

Also the azure devops documentation points to here for the available hosts, but Big Sur is only available on GitHub Actions, and there's no mention of any difference between Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.

[AlenaSviridenko]

Hi @Jon889 , unfortunately, we still have no ETA on providing Big Sur in Azure DevOps, we are still investigating capacity and infrastructure updates required for it.
Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions are different services and not sharing images, you can find the list of agents available for Azure DevOps on Microsoft-hosted agents page.

We will keep you posted with updates, thank you for your patience.

[Jon889]

Thanks, ok I thought there were similar because the Included Software links in the table in that doc link to this repo.

[AlenaSviridenko]

Images that we provide for GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps are the same for the same OS versions, but the set of provided images is different due to the different infrastructure.

[ogrisel]

Beyond 11.1 or 11.0 images running on x86_64 hardware, do you plan to add support for 11.1 or 11.0 images running on arm64 hardware (e.g. Apple Silicon M1) or will we have to rely on cross-compilation to build macos/arm64 software artifacts without being able to run the tests on the CI machine?

[remyjette]

@ogrisel see #2187

[Jon889]

Is there any plans for Big Sur on Azure DevOps? Xcode 12.5 beta says it requires Big Sur, and there are some changes like the improved compilation and SPM caching that would be great to have.

[Jon889]

@AlenaSviridenko can you update us on this?

[Jon889]

@AlenaSviridenko @maxim-lobanov Any update?

[AlenaSviridenko]

Hi @Jon889,
sorry for some silence, it is sad to say, but not too many updates. We expect the earliest we can add macOS 11 to AzDO is in April, when we're first able to start adding new capacity, which we still do not have at the moment.
Thank you for your patience.

[Jon889]

Thanks @AlenaSviridenko, hopefully it will be roughly when Xcode 12.5 comes out then. Instead of adding more capacity couldn't it replace some macOS 10.15 images? Not really sure why this has been more difficult than when macOS 10.15 came out?

[cquanu]

What's the progress now @vijayma? Can we have some updates?

[maluthbadugecara]

Hi,
Good morning !
As we are getting very close to the iOS 15 release, can we please have an ETA on when MacOS BigSur is available on MS hosted agents? Appreciate your assistance.

Best Regards,
M

[yvbeek]

We are happy to announce that macOS-11 is out of preview and now generally available for all the GitHub customers 🥳
The docs will be updated later this week.

#2486 (comment)
https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/blob/main/images/macos/macos-11-Readme.md

@maxim-lobanov @AlenaSviridenko
Please tell me that the Xcode 12.5 option will be available later today 🙏

[miketimofeev]

@yvbeek unfortunately, we can't provide ETA for now. Please send an e-mail to @vijayma with justification if you need access

[simonbuerger]

@miketimofeev is this message from you the "official" update that @vijayma said he would give 3 weeks ago in mid August?

Unfortunately, we do not have an ETA yet. I will share another update in the middle of August.

So the update on ETA is that there is still no update on ETA?

As a paying customer I don't think it's too much to ask for more of a detailed update than "we have no update"

[cquanu]

I don't understand, the fact that the issues tab is turned on for this repository and we can submit our issue. But the team of the virtual environment is not transparent about it, decided to silo information from us and think that they have given a reasonable answer.

[FRcarriel]

Please tell me that the Xcode 12.5 option is resolved or not with macos-11 ????🙏

[philipdvo]

Hi @miketimofeev ,
Could you please provide the email of @vijayma for requesting the Preview of macos-11 on Azure DevOps Pipelines for company?

Thank you

[maluthbadugecara]

Hi @miketimofeev ,
Could you please provide the email of @vijayma for requesting the Preview of macos-11 on Azure DevOps Pipelines for company?

Thank you

Hi,

Can we use the preview of macos-11 on Azure DEVOps for Production builds? Please let me know how to request macos 11 preview to be available on Azure DevOPS?

Thanks

[miketimofeev]

@philipdvo username@github.com — this will be his address, where username is vijayma

[maluthbadugecara]

@miketimofeev Can we use MacOS 11 Preview on Azure DevOPS to run PRoduction builds?

[miketimofeev]

@maluthbadugecara you can once you have access to macos-11.

[phornsby7]

@vijayma and @miketimofeev Hope your hump day is going well. I wanted to ask if your able to give any new updates that we can pass on to our bosses?

Anything you can share is greatly appreciated.

🙏🏻

[cquanu]

Any updates?

[Ahetejaz]

@vijayma and @miketimofeev Hope your hump day is going well. I wanted to ask if your able to give any new updates that we can pass on to our bosses?

Anything you can share is greatly appreciated.

🙏🏻

FYI, The Big Sur pool is available for all starting today. So, one can start using it in YAML pipelines using the label macos-11.

With respect to Azure DevOps.

[cquanu]

FYI, The Big Sur pool is available for all customers starting today. So, one can start using it in YAML pipelines using the label macos-11.

Thanks. But I was asking about AppCenter.

[maluthbadugecara]

@vijayma and @miketimofeev Hope your hump day is going well. I wanted to ask if your able to give any new updates that we can pass on to our bosses?
Anything you can share is greatly appreciated.
🙏🏻

FYI, The Big Sur pool is available for all starting today. So, one can start using it in YAML pipelines using the label macos-11.

With respect to Azure DevOps.

Thanks a lot for the update

[aprilmintacpineda]

@vijayma and @miketimofeev Hope your hump day is going well. I wanted to ask if your able to give any new updates that we can pass on to our bosses?
Anything you can share is greatly appreciated.
🙏🏻

FYI, The Big Sur pool is available for all starting today. So, one can start using it in YAML pipelines using the label macos-11.

With respect to Azure DevOps.

will macOS-latest work as well?

[maxim-lobanov]

Hello everyone!

Just an update on this thread. Starting from today, macOS 11 is publicly available for all Azure DevOps users 🚀
You should specify macos-11 image spec to use the new image.
macos-latest image spec still points to the macos-10.15. We will notify about switching macos-latest later this year.

Thank you for everyone for your patience. We will work to make sure that MacOS 12 is available faster.

Note: Availability of macOS 11 in Azure DevOps doesn't mean that the new image will be available in App Center immediately. App Center team has to perform some work on their side to make sure that new Xcode versions are available in App Center Build.

[FarahaDadvarDeveloper]

Hi,

When will macOS 11.6 host agent be made available on Azure DevOps Pipeline?

[al-cheb]

Hi,

When will macOS 11.6 host agent be made available on Azure DevOps Pipeline?

macOS 11 is publicly available for all Azure DevOps users - #2072 (comment)

[FarahaDadvarDeveloper]

Hi,
When will macOS 11.6 host agent be made available on Azure DevOps Pipeline?

macOS 11 is publicly available for all Azure DevOps users - #2072 (comment)

I was wondering when macOS 11.6 will be available as this will support Xcode 13

[al-cheb]

Hi,
When will macOS 11.6 host agent be made available on Azure DevOps Pipeline?

macOS 11 is publicly available for all Azure DevOps users - #2072 (comment)

I was wondering when macOS 11.6 will be available as this will support Xcode 13

Already available:
https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/blob/main/images/macos/macos-11-Readme.md
System Version: macOS 11.6 (20G165)

[thomthom]

Looking to use XCode 12.5 with Azure Devops, pipeline is not setup via YML, but via the UI. How does one choose an image that support XCode 12.5?

[miketimofeev]

@thomthom make sure you specify macos-11 as vm image, it is enough

[thomthom]

For the record, the source of my confusion was due to me having an old setup. My builds were still using the `Hosted macOS" agents.

Once I switched to Azure Pipelines I got the list of images: