Licensing

Detailed information on Anka Licensing

Anka Licensing for Apple Silicon machines is determined based on host count and host model and not on CPU core count. We have a special migration path for licensing for our existing Intel users. Contact us for more details.

Anka licenses are available for the following products:

Anka Develop - Allows 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 and event logging.
Anka Flow - Install and configure Anka on developer mac workstations. Supported only on Macbook and iMac models.

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/.

How to Activate your License

Licensing is not necessary if you’re using Anka Develop.

You can see how many hosts or cores a license has available by running: anka license show -k {LICENSE}

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_proxy and https_proxy env variables. However, sudo will not pass the environment by default, so activation should be called with sudo -E anka license activate {LICENSE} to pass the current user’s *_proxy envs into sudo.

❯ 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             |
+--------------+-------------------------+

Anka Virtualization (CLI)

Feature	Develop License	Flow License	Build License
Run Multiple VMs	No	Yes	Yes
State Snapshot / Suspend VM (Intel only)	No	Yes	Yes
USB Device Support (Intel only)	No	Yes	Yes
Ability to join your machine as a Node to the Anka Build Cloud Controller	No	No	Yes
Ability to push/pull templates to the Anka Cloud Registry	No	Yes	Yes
Runs on all macOS hardware models	No (Macbook models only)	No (Macbook and iMac only)	Yes

Feature	Basic	Enterprise	Enterprise Plus
Central Registry	Yes	Yes	Yes
USB Device control through the CLI		Yes	Yes
TLS/SSL Support	Yes	Yes	Yes
Advanced Security Features		Yes	Yes
Export and Import VMs		Yes	Yes

Anka Build Cloud

Anka Build License Tier Datasheet

Feature	Basic	Enterprise	Enterprise Plus
Cloud Controller with REST APIs	Yes(Single instance of Anka controller included)	Yes(Single instance of Anka controller included)	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 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

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 (Apple Silicon) - Pricing model is host-based and not CPU core based. With the introduction of performance and efficiency cores in Apple Silicon, CPU core based licensing model adds complexity and is not accurate representation of value alignment.
Anka Build (Intel) - Cost is core based. For example, if you are setting up a cloud consisting of 2, 8-core Intel processor mac minis, then total core count will be 8 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.

Contact [email protected] 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 [email protected] with your activation key and fulfillment ID 2727000039

Contact [email protected] with the fulfillment ID provided in the output of the anka license remove command and your license key.