Licensing
Licensing is not necessary if you're using Anka Develop.
You can see how many cores a license has available by running:
anka license show -k {LICENSE}
❯ anka license
Usage: anka license [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Control Licensing
Options:
--help Display usage information
Commands:
accept-eula Accept EULA (requires root privileges)
activate Activate license key (requires root...
remove Remove the current license (requires root...
show Show license information
validate Validate the current license
❯ sudo anka license activate {LICENSE}
License activated
❯ anka license show
+--------------+-------------------------+
| license_type | com.veertu.anka.entplus |
+--------------+-------------------------+
| status | valid |
+--------------+-------------------------+
| expires | 30-mar-2021 |
+--------------+-------------------------+
Corporate networks can sometimes block access to our licensing server. The machine you're activing the license on will need to reach the internet, or, support can provide the licensing server URL upon request.
If you're using a proxy, Anka recognizes the standard
http_proxyandhttps_proxyenv variables. However,sudowill not pass the environment by default, so activation should be called withsudo -E anka license activate {LICENSE}to pass the current user's*_proxyenvs into sudo.
Anka licenses are available for the following products:
- Anka Develop - Very limited features allowing a developer to run a single VM at a time. Supported only on laptops (Macbook, Macbook Pro, and Macbook Air).
- Anka Build Basic - All Basic features to configure and run macOS CI Cloud infrastructure.
- Anka Build Enterprise - Basic + additional features for grouping, priority provisioning, etc.
- Anka Build Enterprise Plus - Enterprise + additional features to support SSO, VM encryption, event logging.
- Anka Flow - Install and configure Anka on developer mac workstations. Supported only on macbook models and iMac.
- Anka Secure - Install and configure Anka on mac workstations to create secure, sandbox macOS working environments for privileged data access, etc.
Obtaining a trial license
Trial licenses for Anka products is valid for 30 days from the date of trial registration. They enable unlimited access to product features. You can use the same activation key on multiple machines depending upon the quantity specified at the time of trial registration. They can be obtained at https://veertu.com/getting-started-anka-trials/.
Anka License Feature Differences
| Feature | Develop | Flow | Build | Secure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Run Multiple VMs | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| State Snapshot / Suspend VM | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| USB Device Support | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ability to communicate with Anka Build Cloud (Controller & Registry) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Runs on all macOS hardware models | No (Macbook and iMac only) | No (Macbook and iMac only) | Yes | No (Macbook and iMac only) |
Anka Build License Feature Differences
| Feature | Basic | Enterprise | Enterprise Plus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core based licensing | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud Controller with REST APIs | Yes(Single instance of Anka controller included) | Yes(Single instance of Anka controller included) | Yes |
| Central Registry | Yes(Single instance Anka Registry included) | Yes | Yes |
| GitHub Action | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Jenkins Plugin | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| TeamCity Plugin | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GitLab Runner with custom executor | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| BuildKite Plugin | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| HA for Controller configuration setup | Yes (Additional controller/registry instances needed) | Yes | Yes |
| USB Device control through the CLI | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| USB Device control through Controller API | Yes | Yes | |
| Priority scheduling of VMs through controller | Yes | Yes | |
| Clustering (Grouping) of Nodes | Yes | Yes | |
| Basic controller authentication (Certificate & Root Superuser Token) | Yes | Yes | |
| Multi-user & group authorization with admin panel + OpenID/SSO support | Yes | ||
| Controller API event logging | Yes | ||
| VM full disk encryption for Build VMs | Yes | ||
| Control VM runtime (Networking, Access to host) and functional properties with policies | Yes |
Commercial Licenses
Commercial Anka licenses are issued for yearly license subscription which includes updates, upgrades, and standard support. They can be purchased for a single year or multiple years.
Commercial licenses are automatically extended in activated Anka software if days to expiration is < 30 days. The machine where you've installed Anka must have a connection to the licensing server.
Pricing
- Anka Build - Cost is core based. For example, if you are setting up a cloud consisting of 2 6-core mac minis, then total core count will be 12 cores. For very large core count, there are other licensing models.
- Anka Flow - Cost is per machine. For example, if you are installing Anka Flow on 10 developer machines, then quantity will be 10.
- Anka Secure - Cost is per machine. For example, if you are installing Anka Flow on 10 mac workstations, then quantity will be 10.
Contact support@veertu.com to get a pricing estimate.
Upgrading your Trial license to a Commercial license
Stop all the running or suspended VMs.
Remove the old license and activate with the commercial activation key.
sudo anka license remove sudo anka license activate {LICENSE}
Moving your Commercial license from one machine to another
Remove the license from the machine using the below described command.
sudo anka license remove Are you sure you want to remove current license? [y/N]: y License is removed. To activate with the same activation key on another machine, contact support@veertu.com with your activation key and fulfillment ID 2727000039Contact support@veertu.com with the fulfillment ID provided in the output of the
anka license removecommand and your license key.
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