Depot : Accelerating Builds with AI-Powered Efficiency

Depot is a build acceleration platform designed to enhance the speed, efficiency, and performance of software builds. Aimed at developers and teams, Depot offers three main products across its pricing plans:

• Remote Container Builds: Boost Docker image build speeds up to 40x faster.
• GitHub Actions Runners: Fully-managed runners with 30% faster compute, 10x faster caching, and lower costs compared to GitHub-hosted runners.
• Depot Build API: Allows users to integrate Depot’s high-performance build capabilities into custom code for container images.

Key Features of Depot

1. Build Isolation & Acceleration

• Depot runs each build on dedicated, ephemeral EC2 instances tailored for specific tasks, such as Docker builds or GitHub Actions jobs.
• These builds spin up within 10 seconds, equipped with 16 CPUs and 32GB RAM for Docker image builds, while GitHub Actions runners support configurations from 2 to 32 CPUs.

2. Persistent Shared Caching

• Depot’s cache orchestration system accelerates builds by persisting Docker layer caches to NVMe storage, accessible across all team projects.
• GitHub Actions jobs also benefit from faster caching, streamlining the build process without additional configuration.

3. Multi-Platform Support

• Depot natively supports multi-platform Docker builds for both Intel and Arm architectures.
• Utilizes high-performance CPUs (Intel Xeon and AWS Graviton3) for different architectures without the need for emulation.

4. Drop-In Replacement for Docker Builds

• Seamlessly replaces standard Docker commands with minimal adjustments, offering the same flags and options with Depot’s depot build command.
• Enhances GitHub Actions with labels for optimal runner performance.

5. Integration with CI & Dev Tools

• Supports integrations with major CI providers (AWS CodeBuild, Bitbucket, CircleCI, etc.) and popular developer tools like Docker, Docker Compose, and Dev Containers.
• OIDC integration with providers like GitHub and CircleCI eliminates the need for static access tokens.

6. Ephemeral Registry

• Provides a built-in temporary registry for storing images from Depot builds, enabling easy pull/push to final registries.