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    openai/orchard

    Orchestrator for running Tart Virtual Machines on a cluster of Apple Silicon devices

    ios
    macos
    orchestration
    virtualization
    Go
    NOASSERTION
    585 stars
    66 forks
    585 GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 27, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 8 days ago, with 14 contributors on GitHub.

    Gained 14% more stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Orchestrates and manages Tart Virtual Machines across a cluster of Apple Silicon devices running macOS 15 or later.
    • Enables efficient VM cluster management on bare-metal Apple Silicon hardware with secure network connection handling.
    • Use for deploying and controlling multiple macOS VMs in a local Apple Silicon hardware cluster for development or testing.
    • Use for automating VM orchestration workflows in CI/CD pipelines targeting Apple Silicon environments.
    • Use for building scalable macOS virtualization infrastructures that require fine-grained network permission management.

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    From the README

    Orchard is an orchestration system for Tart. Create a cluster of bare-metal Apple Silicon machines and manage dozens of VMs with ease!

    The fastest way to get started with Orchard is to use a local development mode:

    This will start Orchard Controller and a single Orchard Worker on your local machine.

    You can interact with the newly created cluster using the orchard CLI or programmatically, through the built-in REST API server.

    Please check out the official documentation for more information and/or feel free to use issues for the remaining questions.

    Excerpt from the openai/orchard README on GitHub (NOASSERTION license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

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    Forks

    66+23

    Open issues

    43+18

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