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Dev tools · May 17, 2023

Depot

Build Docker containers up to 20x faster

Depot launched on May 17, 2023 with 169 votes, #209 of 4,910 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

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What it does

Depot is a hosted container build service that builds Docker images up to 20x faster than existing CI providers. We run fully managed Intel and Arm builders in AWS, accessible directly from CI and from your terminal.

Depot provides fast source control, builds, CI runners, sandboxes, caches, and registries to ship reliable software at machine scale.

Depot gives engineering teams the fast source control, builds, CI runners, sandboxes, caches, and registries they need to ship reliable software they trust at AIfrom depot.dev

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    Accelerated Docker builds on your local machine with Depot (YC W23)2023 · ▲64

    Hello HN! We just launched a new feature we built at Depot that accelerates Docker image builds on your local machine in a team environment, and we wanted to share some of the details with you all. The launch blog post: https://depot.dev/blog/local-builds Depot is a hosted container build service - we run fully managed Intel and Arm remote build machines in AWS, with large instance sizes and SSD cache disks. The machines run BuildKit, the build engine that powers Docker, so generally anything you can `docker build`, you can also `depot build`. Most people use Depot in CI,…

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    Managed GitHub Actions Runners for AWS2024 · ▲117

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