We've added the ability to lint Dockerfiles on demand in Depot. This post covers the top 10 most common Dockerfile linting issues we've seen flowing through Depot.

In addition to our existing GitHub Actions and Buildkite OIDC integrations via trust relationships, we now support CircleCI OIDC for Depot builds as well.

August was packed full of new features and enhancements to Depot. Check out our latest updates, including our CNCF announcement, a new buildx driver, and usage caps.

Organization owners can now configure usage caps to limit the total number of build minutes their team can use in a given month.

We're excited to announce that with our new configure-docker command, you can now use Depot to build the images in your Docker Compose file automatically without changing a single line of code.

We're excited to announce that Depot has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a silver member to help more folks learn about and use cloud native technologies like Depot.

A breakdown of different Docker artifacts and build cache that can take up system resources like disk and how to prune them individually and use docker system prune to clear them all.

We hosted our first Depot Drop Week in July and shipped a lot of new features! Including a new cache architecture, depot.ai, depot build for OSS forks, a UI into what's in your Docker layer cache, and much more!

Overmind leverages Dev Containers to manage and roll out a standard set of development tools and configurations to their engineering team. They switched to Depot to build their multi-platform Dev Container images 10x faster.

We're excited to bring a new feature to the depot CLI that allows you to configure docker build to use Depot for all image builds by default.

Announcing that we have raised a $1.8M seed round from Y Combinator, Tokyo Black, Kima Ventures, Pioneer Fund, and many incredible individual founders and operators.

Our first Depot Drop Week is over! We announced three new features that are going to make builds even faster, easier to embed AI models into a build, and allow public forks to leverage the power of Depot builders.

Use ephemeral Depot builders to build and test Docker images on pull requests from forks of your open-source repositories with our new authentication mechanism for public forks.

Add any of the Top 100 models on Hugging Face to your Dockerfile with a single COPY statement via our new free, open-source Docker registry for public AI models now in public beta.

We're excited to announce our new cache storage architecture that makes builds even faster, eliminates project constraints, and allows you to choose the cache size that makes sense for your project.

June was a record month for us as we climbed past 150k builds ran in the month, shipped many new features, and we are excited to announce our first Depot Drop Day that will be happening the week of July 17th!

Using the Docker build cache speeds up builds by reusing layers from previous builds. But sometimes you want to build an image without the cache. Here's how.

We're excited to bring our public API out of beta and make it generally available to all Depot customers. Learn more about what you can do with our new API and how to get started.

Windmill.dev switched to Depot for their native Intel & Arm Docker image builds, making them 13x faster inside of GitHub Actions.

See how you can accelerate your Docker image builds in CircleCI with Depot. Saving you time and credits with faster builds for native Intel & Arm images.

May was loaded with a lot of new features and exciting enhancements! We launched our accelerated local builds with instant cache sharing, open-sourced our docs, and rolled out a few new versions of our CLI.

We're added a build summary link for every build and refreshed the build details UI to make it easier to see what's going on with your builds at a glance.

We're excited to announce that you can now lint your Dockerfile on every build with Depot! No more configuring a separate Dockerfile linter outside or before your build in CI.

There are four fundamentals to building a Docker image quickly with docker build. From the moment we create a Dockerfile, we should be thinking about the fundamentals of building a Docker image as fast as possible.

All of our documentation is now open source so that you can contribute to it if you'd like and so that we can improve on it in public.

Today we're announcing local Docker image builds with the speed of Depot's cloud builders and instant cache sharing across your entire team.

Bitbucket Pipelines give you the ability to build Docker images, but they don't give you the ability to build them quickly. This post will look at the limitations of building Docker images in Bitbucket Pipelines.

April marked the end of our YC W23 batch, and we shipped many new enhancements. We're excited to share what we are working on now & thinking about for the future.

A Kysely dialect for PlanetScale that allows you to write type-safe and autocompletion-friendly SQL queries.

Leverage .dockerignore, smaller base images, and multi-stage builds to drastically reduce the size of your Docker images.

March was loaded with new features and improvements. Cache statistics, build insights, Buildkite integration, and a massive CLI release for even faster local builds.

We've launched a new integration that allows you to build container images faster with Depot directly from your existing Buildkite pipelines.

See how much of your builds are cached and how much time that saves you and your team. In addition, monitor how much provisioned cache you are using for each build architecture.

February was a big month for us. We set a new record for ourselves, launched to the Hacker News community, and shipped a ton of new features and improvements.

Fast image builds just got even faster with the introduction of bigger builder machines that have 4x the compute power.

January was a busy one for us. We traveled back to the US, started a new community, and shipped a lot of excellent new features.

With CLI version 1.5.0, buildx bake comes to Depot via the depot bake command. Build multiple Docker images concurrently from an HCL, JSON, or Docker Compose file.

Depot is officially a YC company! We will be joining the Winter 2023 batch that is kicking off next week. On top of that exciting news, we also added some exciting new features.

BuildKit cache mounts provide a more fine-grained cache that allows you to leverage pre-computed work even when the Docker layer cache says the entire layer needs to be rebuilt. See how to use them and how you can use them in CI providers like GitHub Actions.

Building your Docker images just got even faster with the ability to launch Depot builders in the region closest to your registries.

A big announcement is coming next week, but in the meantime, here's what we've been up to throughout the month of November.

The easiest way to get faster Docker image builds inside of Google Cloud Build is to make use of the layer cache as frequently as possible. But options available today in Cloud Build can often negate the advantages of layer caching.

If you use the asdf version manager, you can now add our Depot CLI as a plugin to manage all of your versions in one place.

We're excited to announce that we are now working on Depot full-time as we aim to change the build of today into one that is fast, reliable, and capable of fixing the impedence mismatch between build tools & CI providers.

We made it even easier to sign up and try out Depot by adding support for logging in with Google and Microsoft accounts.

It was a busy month for Depot, we landed on the front page of Hacker News and made a lot of progress on new features and improvements. Check out what we built over the past month.

Building Docker images in GitLab CI comes with security, complexity, and performance tradeoffs. With Depot, you can go back to building Docker images quickly and securely from your existing GitLab CI jobs, no tradeoffs needed.

We launched some awesome stuff this month and are preparing to launch Depot publicly in all the usual places throughout September. Check out what we built this month and where we are launching Depot next week.

Self-hosted Depot builders are here! Launch builders in your own AWS accounts on a per-project basis and connect directly to them without passing through any Depot proxy.

It's been a little quieter this past month, but big things are coming over the horizon. Let's dig into what we have been working on over the past month and are building to in the near future.

Reducing the overall image size is key to building and launching Docker images as quickly as possible. The smaller the image size, the less network bandwidth we have to consume to build and launch it.

Depot is coming out of beta! Here is what we built in June and what we're working on next.

One of the keys to building a Docker image quickly is making use of the layer cache as frequently as possible. More cache hits means faster build times. Here we dive into how to make use of the layer cache in GitHub Actions.

You can now authenticate to Depot with a project-specific API token, for fine-grained access control over your Docker builds.

Here is everything that is new with Depot after our first month of learning and iterating with all of our great collaborators during closed beta.

Writing a Dockerfile that builds quickly involves understanding the Docker layer cache and working with it to maximize the number of cache hits between builds.

The state of building Arm and multi-architecture containers today is filled with tradeoffs and complexities. In this post, we explore the current options, including how Depot addresses these challenges.

Depot is a new container build service with blazing fast compute and persistent caching, for both Intel and Arm containers.