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VM orchestration for modern CI/CD teams

Manage, automate and scale Parallels Desktop hosts and virtual machines from a single control plane.

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Everything your DevOps team needs

From golden image catalogs to full multi-host orchestration
All exposed through a clean API and now a full UI.

Golden Image Catalog

Host and share VM templates across your team. Version-controlled, immutable, instantly clonable golden images for any OS.

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Multi-host Orchestration

Control fleets of Parallels Desktop hosts from one dashboard. Start, stop, clone and snapshot VMs at scale with zero manual effort.

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CI/CD Runners

Using our GitHub Actions or Jenkins integration, spin up native macOS, Windows or Linux runners on your own hardware. No shared infra, no queues — your builds, your metal.

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Full UI Dashboard

A native control panel for every VM and host — live metrics, one-click actions, and full visibility across your entire fleet.

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REST API & CLI

Every action available in the UI is also in the API. Automate everything, integrate anywhere, script anything.

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Fair Source License

Free and open-source, but requires a Parallels Desktop license. Pro covers up to 10 users; more requires a Business or Enterprise license.

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HOW IT WORKS

Up and running in minutes

No complex setup. Just install, configure, and orchestrate.

1

Install the service

Deploy the binary on any macOS host running Parallels Desktop Business or Enterprise.

Quick start guide →
2

Connect your hosts

Register multiple hosts to the orchestrator for a unified control plane.

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3

Build your catalog

Push golden images that your pipelines and teams can clone on demand.

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4

Automate

Hook into GitHub Actions, REST API, or use the new desktop UI dashboard.

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Parallels DevOps UI
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Parallels DevOps Agent (CLI)
Run Install Script
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Parallels/prl-devops-service/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
or
Download Service Binary

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Latest Releases
Release 1.0.1 June 05, 2026

Whats New

  • Added caching for Parallels Desktop license information with TTL.
  • Introduced methods for license status checks (active, trial, volume).
  • Updated telemetry item to include hashed user ID and license properties.
  • Implemented the new refreshed documentation page using the new use cases
  • Fixed an issue where the host would not issue job updates back to the orchestrator
  • Fixed a bug where the orchestrator would not choose a host based on the number of mac VMs rather the number of running mac VMs
  • Added debug logs around the event emitter
  • Fixed other small issues
  • Improved error management for packer_templates controller
  • Part of #245
  • Improved API return codes and error messages for performance controller.
  • Part of #245
  • Added a new way of authenticating in the API: api_key
  • API Keys are now associated with a user this is the first step to make them granular and they will become PAT later on, you will still be able to create a system wide keys later on
Release 1.0.0 April 13, 2026

Whats New

  • Improved API return codes and error messages for authorization controller
  • Part of #415
  • Improved API error return codes and error messages for cache controller.
  • part of #415
  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Improved API return codes and error messages for ssh controller
  • Added the snapshots to the orchestrator machines
  • Fixed some issues with the roles and claims
  • Fixed a bug in the snapshot management when running it as a service
  • Fixed an issue where a new Host in the orchestrator never populated the VMs at start
  • Fixed an issue in the macOS service install and the modules
  • Fixes # (issue)
  • Improved API return codes and error messages for users controller.
  • Improved API return codes and error messages for user-configs controller
  • Added internal flags for roles and claims
  • Added small fixes to the caching system
  • Updated the discord icon in the documentations
  • Updated the meeting scheduler link to parallels
  • Improved API return codes and error messages for events controller
  • Fixes different issues
  • Fixes # (issue)
  • Improved API return codes and error messages for api_key controller.
  • Implemented the new role/claim system
  • Created all the new endpoints to support the new system
  • Added new event emitter messages for users/roles/claims
  • Other small fixes
  • Fixed a issue where the messages for some of the jobs did not make sense
  • Added the ability to persist the record ids in the jobs
  • Added a tiny delay between the JOB_UPDATE and JOB_COMPLETE messages for the UI
  • Fixed an issue where the orchestrator would not update hardware in real time
  • Improved API return codes and error messages for claims controller.
  • Implemented the new catalog_manager module
  • Fixed an issue where the host was not being enabled by default
  • Added machine ids to the end jobs
  • Fixed several issues with our ssh deployment
  • Other small fixes
  • Improved API return codes and error messages for roles controller.
  • Added new user configuration endpoint to assist the UI in persisting user releated configurations
  • Fixes several issues with desync on orchestrator and the Hosts
  • Added linux and containers memory management
  • Improved the stats report for linux smoothing the UI spring effect
  • Fixed some of the automation issues found for the new ssh deploy
  • Fixed some other minor issues
  • Added the missing windows disk space for unblocking release
  • Updated PR flow to include macOS/Linux/Windows builds to detect these issues
  • Now the host will have fully sync diskspace tracking (this can be an external disk) #403
  • We will use this disk space info to determine if we can create a VM in the host or not
  • Now we are also tracking the number of mac VM’s running
  • New endpoint /config/diskspace users can query about disk space available for the cache dir and parallels home directory
  • Now we will brodcast diskspace and MacVMs running currently through the events channels
  • Moved the docker container to GitHub Packages
  • Added new flow to register with orchestrator from host
  • Added a new endpoint to deploy a host from the orchestrator
  • Fixed an issue with the auto set of the modules that are enabled
  • Added a new module, cors, this will allow auto enabling of the cors that is needed for the UI
  • Changed the default api port from 80 to 3080
  • Created a new type of enrollment tokens for single use
  • Fixed an issue in the orchestrator that made the real time communication fail in some new hosts
  • Other small fixes
  • Improve the concurrency when uploading
  • added a dynamic part size chunking
  • Fixed some issues during the job tracker
  • Implementing the new linux install flow from the cmd #405
  • Added the new version management and distribution channels
  • Added CORS by default, this will help the UI
  • Added a small fix for a diff issue when both arrays did not match in lenght
  • Fixed an issue where the modals where using dependencies that they should not have
  • Fixed and issue where the catalog manager was duplicatinf headers
  • Added the ability to force delete a vm, from the host and orchestrator
  • Bugfix fixed the deletion of virtual machines in the orchestrator, caused by variable shadowing
  • Added the new async endpoint for the push #399
  • Added some new fixes for the job tracker and reset of positions
  • Added a fix where job tracker would not keep message positions
  • Added a fix some work like compress and upload were not tracking correctly
  • other small fixes in the storage providers
  • Implemented new set of functions that will expose the list snapshots, create snapshots, delete snapshots, delete all snapshots for particular VM and revert the snapshot for host and orchestrator.
  • Created all the database entries for the snapshots and link them to the VMs. And also added them in to the event emitter.
  • Implemented code for emit events to our consumers on these changes using a new message type.
  • Created documentation for all the snapshot end points, refer the documentation for more info and examples.
  • Updating host resources in real-time, based on events from PDfM
Release 0.9.21 February 20, 2026

Whats New

  • Improved cache auto refresh to detect state changes too.
  • Corrected vm state change logic to call findVmSync.
  • We’ll now check the cache several times with a delay to find a VM. If we still can’t find it, we’ll then use a method that doesn’t rely on the cache to retrieve it.