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There is Buildkite, which a hybrid server side / client side solution. This has worked extraordinarily because one of the most frustrating parts of setting up a CI service is setting up a long-lived, reliable server.

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Buildkite also offers free accounts to open source projects along with awesome email support. After years of Jenkins, followed by a couple of months trying to cherry pick CI parts of GitLab and make them play nicely with GitHub, Buildkite has been a breath of fresh air. Their service has allowed us to version control pipeline configs, test GitHub pull requests, and provide all core features without having to curate a list of random plugins.

Note: I'm not affiliated with Buildkite.

We’re working on making GitLab CI work better with GitHub. I'm sorry to hear it will be too late for you.

BTW for anyone interested: this will be done with a CI only workflow https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/3839

Not a reasonable replacement as maintaining your own mac servers is non-trivial and all the major cloud providers don't have mac as hardware options.

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