diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 2356dbe3..96395d67 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1.6
 # Find eligible builder and runner images on Docker Hub. We use Ubuntu/Debian
 # instead of Alpine to avoid DNS resolution issues in production.
 #
@@ -29,11 +30,19 @@ ARG WGRIB2_VERSION=3.6.0
 # experimental until 2.0.0.
 ARG G2C_VERSION=2.1.0
 
-RUN apt-get update \
-  && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-     build-essential gfortran cmake wget ca-certificates pkg-config \
-     zlib1g-dev libaec-dev libpng-dev libopenjp2-7-dev \
-  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+# BuildKit cache mounts keep the .deb archive + apt-lists out of the
+# image overlay and on the builder's cache storage, so image layers
+# don't pay the disk cost and CI runners with tight /var budgets can
+# still fetch ~100 MB of packages. The `rm -rf lists/*` below targets
+# the cache-mount contents; BuildKit persists whatever remains for
+# the next build.
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/apt,sharing=locked \
+    --mount=type=cache,target=/var/lib/apt,sharing=locked \
+    rm -f /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/docker-clean \
+    && apt-get update \
+    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+       build-essential gfortran cmake wget ca-certificates pkg-config \
+       zlib1g-dev libaec-dev libpng-dev libopenjp2-7-dev
 
 # NCEPLIBS-g2c: wgrib2 >= 3.x delegates GRIB2 decompression to this
 # library via find_package whenever any of JASPER / OPENJPEG / PNG
@@ -81,9 +90,11 @@ RUN wget -q --content-disposition "https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/wgrib2/archive/re
 FROM ${BUILDER_IMAGE} AS builder
 
 # install build dependencies
-RUN apt-get update \
-  && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends build-essential git \
-  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/apt,sharing=locked \
+    --mount=type=cache,target=/var/lib/apt,sharing=locked \
+    rm -f /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/docker-clean \
+    && apt-get update \
+    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends build-essential git
 
 # prepare build dir
 WORKDIR /app
@@ -142,25 +153,25 @@ FROM ${RUNNER_IMAGE} AS final
 # compile cache. Read at runtime by Microwaveprop.Application.build_timestamp/0.
 ARG BUILD_TIMESTAMP=unknown
 
-# Base runtime deps, without cdo. `APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages=false`
-# deletes each .deb immediately after install so apt's archive cache
-# doesn't pile up and OOM the /var/cache/apt disk partition the CI
-# builder runs on.
-RUN apt-get update \
-  && apt-get -o APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages=false install -y --no-install-recommends \
-     libstdc++6 openssl libncurses6 locales ca-certificates snmp \
-     libgfortran5 libaec0 zlib1g libpng16-16t64 libopenjp2-7 \
-  && apt-get clean \
-  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
+# Runtime deps. BuildKit cache mounts keep the .deb archives and apt
+# lists out of the image layer, so the CI builder's tight /var disk
+# cap doesn't trip during install. cdo is split into its own RUN
+# layer because its dep tree (netCDF/HDF5/ecCodes/Fortran) is ~1 GB
+# and we'd rather not have a single failed cdo install invalidate the
+# base-runtime layer.
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/apt,sharing=locked \
+    --mount=type=cache,target=/var/lib/apt,sharing=locked \
+    rm -f /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/docker-clean \
+    && apt-get update \
+    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+       libstdc++6 openssl libncurses6 locales ca-certificates snmp \
+       libgfortran5 libaec0 zlib1g libpng16-16t64 libopenjp2-7
 
-# cdo is ~1 GB of transitive deps (netCDF, HDF5, ecCodes, Fortran
-# runtime). Splitting into its own RUN layer means the base deps above
-# are already extracted + pruned before the cdo cache starts filling,
-# which is what kept the image under the 2 GB CI disk cap.
-RUN apt-get update \
-  && apt-get -o APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages=false install -y --no-install-recommends cdo \
-  && apt-get clean \
-  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/apt,sharing=locked \
+    --mount=type=cache,target=/var/lib/apt,sharing=locked \
+    rm -f /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/docker-clean \
+    && apt-get update \
+    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends cdo
 
 RUN sed -i '/en_US.UTF-8/s/^# //g' /etc/locale.gen && locale-gen