stepchowfun/toast

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1628 stars · 39 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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Toast is a Rust CLI tool that containerizes development and CI workflows by running tasks defined in a YAML 'toastfile' inside Docker containers. It caches each task as a Docker image tagged with a hash of its inputs, and can share a remote cache via a Docker registry.

Use cases

• run build and test tasks in containers
• cache CI builds in a shared Docker registry
• set up reproducible development environments
• skip unchanged build steps with content-hash caching
• replace docker-compose-based dev workflows with task-based ones
• install dependencies and compile projects inside containers

When to choose

• you want containerized, cacheable build/test tasks without learning Nix
• your team and CI should share one remote build cache
• you prefer shell commands like apt-get over Nix derivations

When to avoid

• you need multi-container orchestration like Docker Compose provides
• you want fully reproducible builds via functional package management (use Nix)
• your project doesn't use Docker

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

build-tool ci-cd container-runtime caching developer-tools developer-tools cli rust docker task-runner reproducible-builds remote-cache toastfile devops containers automation linux macos

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