Brand Intelligence Graph
Company Overview
About Depot
Depot is a remote Docker build cache and layer storage service that dramatically accelerates Docker image builds in CI/CD pipelines — providing a shared, persistent build cache that allows consecutive builds to reuse unchanged layers across different machines and parallel runners, turning 10-minute Docker builds into 2-minute builds. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in the United States, Depot targets engineering teams running Docker-based CI/CD on GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or other cloud CI platforms where each build starts from scratch without access to previous build cache.
Business Model & Competitive Advantage
Depot's shared remote cache stores Docker build layers in cloud infrastructure and makes them available to all CI runners across a team — when a build starts, it checks Depot's cache for previously built layers and only rebuilds what has changed. This is particularly impactful for large monorepos and multi-stage Dockerfiles where base dependency layers (npm install, pip install, Maven dependencies) represent significant build time but rarely change between commits. Depot also provides native ARM build support (building ARM64 images without slow emulation).
Competitive Landscape 2025–2026
In 2025, Depot competes with Docker's own Build Cloud, Buildkite Depot, and engineering teams' self-managed BuildKit caching solutions for CI Docker build optimization. The Docker build performance market has grown as teams running microservices in containers experience significant CI cost and time from slow Docker builds. Depot's managed service eliminates the infrastructure management burden of self-hosted build cache. The 2025 strategy focuses on expanding GitHub Actions integration (native action available in GitHub Marketplace), growing ARM native build adoption as teams adopt Apple Silicon development, and building build analytics that help teams identify slow Dockerfile patterns.
Recent Activity
View all →Launching today in early beta, Origin code hosting features a Depot app to run your existing GitHub Actions workflows on Depot CI for better performance and reliability without GitHub.
Our microVMs launch in under a second, and assembling their block devices in parallel put LVM's roughly 100ms volume group-wide lock directly in the critical path. We kept the kernel's device-mapper, wrote our own control plane and gave up crash safety our ephemeral workloads never needed, making allocation roughly 100x faster.
Agents can investigate, plan, and implement faster than I can, but reading a final diff is not the same as understanding why the system works the way it does. I own how the system behaves in production, so I want to keep building my intuition about it.
Most of a large container's startup goes to pulling and decompressing files it never reads to boot. SOCI makes the image seekable so the runtime loads only the bytes it needs, and Depot writes that index during the build, so the image can lazy-load the instant it's pushed.
Report JUnit from your Depot CI or Depot GitHub Actions jobs to see failures in context. A single command runs your suite and uploads the report. Split suites by historical timing and they'll automatically rebalance over time.
GitHub isn't just falling short on performance and reliability. The whole collaboration paradigm is the wrong shape for how we build software now.
Formal verification never seemed worth it: writing a faithful TLA+ spec took too long. But now agents can write the spec from your code. We tried it on the rebuilt Depot Registry garbage collector, and the model checker found something our tests and reviews didn't: a race that could delete live data.
Depot is joining the Stripe Projects developer preview. Developers and their agents can now set up Depot from the terminal: create or link an organization, pick a plan, and get a token back that unlocks fast, reliable software delivery on Depot.
Keeping our AI assistant working well is a human responsibility at Depot. PostHog's AI engineering features turned our never-ending reviews into 30 minutes a week.
Material Event filed 2026-07-15
A team process without a principle underneath it is a real problem. Here's why the "why" is worth protecting as you scale.
Source control has become the bottleneck at the top of the delivery loop. So we built our own: a diskless git server backed by blob storage that scales horizontally, mirrors your GitHub repos, and plugs straight into Depot CI. It's now in private beta.
Key Differentiators
Emerging Innovator
Depot is an emerging player bringing innovative solutions to the Infrastructure market.
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