09/17/2026
macOS 27 doesn't run on Intel, which means a lot of teams are about to spend a quarter migrating Mac hardware they would rather not touch
In our 2026 DevOps AI survey, hardware procurement and lead times were the most-cited Mac infrastructure challenge, and 67% of teams said they lose at least an hour a week to Mac CI issues. That's the baseline before you add a forced migration on top of it.
This work isn't necessarily difficult. It's serial, manual, and impossible to do while builds are running, which is why it turns into a project instead of a task.
It's also the second time most teams have done it, and it will happen again with macOS 28. Persistent machines make every OS release a migration, because the machine and the OS are the same thing.
With ephemeral VMs they aren't. You build one image, every VM starts from it clean, and the next macOS release is a new base image rather than a quarter of hands-on work across the fleet.
The migration is happening either way so talk to us about Orka to make it your last one.