Best practice for Xcode builds in CI

[tethridge]

I'm investigating the use of cirrus-cli with a project that builds an iOS application. I'm not able to find much documentation that explains the best way to configure your signing certificates and run a build. I'm using the latest macos-sonoma-xcode instance, which I see comes with fastlane installed. Is this information documented somewhere?

The big issue that I would like clarity on is the best way to configure certificates that are needed when building using xcode or fastlane.

[fkorotkov]

Hi @tethridge,

There is no special integration for xcode or fastlane builtin into Cirrus CLI. Using script and other instructions you can run any script and more to configure these tools the same way you do locally in scripts or in any CI/CD you already have.

[tethridge]

Right, I understand. However it seems like a such a common task that I assume it is a pain point for most to figure out how to configure certificates for an iOS build, since most developers configure using the UI and forget about it. I was hoping for example documentation to configure Xcode certificates to build. Fastlane has its ”merge” solution, but I don’t know if that is a best practice with CI.

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