Automate client & IDE Testing on MacOS

[jwmatthews]

We want to enable an automated means of testing Kai Client and IDE workflows on MacOS.

Idea being to provision a Mac Desktop in AWS and automate run through of both Client and IDE workflows.

[jmontleon]

It looks like we can launch macs using dedicated instances. They will be tied to our account for at least 24 hours.
https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/hands-on/launch-connect-to-amazon-ec2-mac-instance/

We then have ssh and can enable remote destkop access if desired:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/mac-instance-launch.html

[jmontleon]

We could potentially configured a dedicated host as a self-hosted runner and trigger jobs on it from GitHub:
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/managing-self-hosted-runners/about-self-hosted-runners#macos

[jmontleon]

From looking previously at self-hosted runners I think @shawn-hurley and I found some special considerations if we take this approach.

• We could not find a way for a job to run on both hosted and self-hosted runners we would probably want to keep mac oriented jobs separate.
• There is no cleanup done after the test is run; GitHub hosted runners just go away, so this is taken for granted. Here we would be on the hook to clean up before/after each run adding some complexity.

@shawn-hurley might remember more, but I think these stood out as the biggest ones to me.