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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 →The longer I worked on a problem with a coding agent, the dumber it felt. My context window was a junk drawer. Here's the multi-role loop I built so plans, builds, and reviews each get their own clean context.
Depot CI's VM scheduler is just-in-time: no pre-warming, no warm pool of standby VMs. We stacked optimizations to get microVM cold boots from 7 to 9 seconds down to under a second, and this post walks through each one.
Material Event filed 2026-05-01
Depot CI's orchestrator runs on AWS Lambda durable functions. The orchestrator checkpoints state, suspends between events, and never burns compute while waiting. Here's how we designed the run-workflow-job hierarchy and the callback-driven orchestration loop that powers it.
With agents writing the initial fuzz harness, the hardest part of getting fuzzing into CI is basically gone. This is the setup I landed on: cargo fuzz, a GitHub Actions matrix job to fan work across multiple runners, and Actions cache to keep the corpus growing between runs.
Depot Registry v2 is a ground-up rewrite of our container registry. The original design worked well as an ephemeral build store, but it had limitations around tags and repository naming. V2 solves those limitations and adds support for using it as a primary registry.
Depot CI runs GitHub Actions workflows on Depot infrastructure, and migrating is pretty seamless. Here's a walkthrough of moving an app's CI over, from installing the CLI to digging into logs.
Agents can write and push code in seconds, but CI still takes minutes to give them feedback. That mismatch is the biggest bottleneck in agentic engineering today, and it's why CI needed to be rebuilt from scratch.
The old CI debugging loop goes: edit YAML, commit, push, wait, squint at logs, repeat. Depot CI replaces that with a local loop you can actually control, from running workflows against uncommitted changes to SSHing into the runner mid-job.
We're excited to announce that Depot CI, our own programmable CI engine, is now generally available to everyone who wants to accelerate their CI in this new era of software engineering.
Offload the scavenger-hunt grunt work to agents, log the useful bits (also with an agent) so the problem is discoverable next time, and spit out the day's support recap in seconds.
We've raised a $10M Series A from Felicis, Y Combinator, and Pioneer Fund to build the next era of software delivery.
Key Differentiators
Emerging Innovator
Depot is an emerging player bringing innovative solutions to the Infrastructure market.
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