Show HN: Depot – fast, remote Docker container builds

📰 Hacker News · jacobwg

Hey HN! We’re Kyle and Jacob and we are excited to show you Depot ( https://depot.dev ) and get your feedback! Depot is a hosted Docker container build service, providing fully managed remote builds from CI and from your terminal. We support both Intel and Arm builds natively. As application and platform engineers, we have experienced the challenge of keeping Docker container build times fast. From optimizing and reoptimizing Dockerfiles, to implementing layer caching in CI, to running & maintaining custom runners for multi-platform images. Still today, there are limitations with the available tools. CI runners are ephemeral, and saving and loading cache tarballs is slow. CI providers are resource constrained, with limited CPUs and disk space to dedicate to fast builds. And with the increasing popularity of Arm devices like M1, Graviton, etc, building multi-platform images requires slow emulation or self-hosted infrastructure. We created Depot to directly address those li

Published 28 Sept 2022
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