# Announcing the new Exec Runner, support for macOS

**URL:** <https://drone.discourse.group/t/announcing-the-new-exec-runner-support-for-macos/8450>\
**Category:** Drone Support\
**Created:** [September 3, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/announcing-the-new-exec-runner-support-for-macos/8450 "2019-09-03T17:04:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/announcing-the-new-exec-runner-support-for-macos/8450/1 "2019-09-03T17:04:02Z")

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Today we announced official support for executing Pipelines directly on the host machine, without using containers. The target use case are workloads that are poorly suited for container runtimes, including macOS and iOS projects.

Here are some links:

- Exec runner documentation: [https://docs.drone.io/runner/exec/overview/](https://docs.drone.io/runner/exec/overview/)
- Announcement on our Blog: [https://blog.drone.io/drone-exec-runner/](https://blog.drone.io/drone-exec-runner/)
- Announcement on Twitter: [https://twitter.com/droneio/status/1168931431546052608](https://twitter.com/droneio/status/1168931431546052608)

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**Author:** ![bradrydzewski](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/drone.discourse.group/bradrydzewski/32/3513_2.png) [@bradrydzewski](https://drone.discourse.group/u/bradrydzewski)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/announcing-the-new-exec-runner-support-for-macos/8450/2 "2019-09-03T17:04:06Z")

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