diff --git a/gpu/self_hosted/Dockerfile b/gpu/self_hosted/Dockerfile
index 4865fcc0..8fd56b66 100644
--- a/gpu/self_hosted/Dockerfile
+++ b/gpu/self_hosted/Dockerfile
@@ -4,27 +4,31 @@ ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 \
     UV_LINK_MODE=copy \
     UV_NO_CACHE=1
 
+# patch until nvidia updates the sha1 repo
+ADD sequoia.config /etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/sequoia.config
+
 WORKDIR /tmp
-RUN apt-get update \
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/apt,sharing=locked \
+ --mount=type=cache,target=/var/lib/apt,sharing=locked \
+ apt-get update \
  && apt-get install -y \
     ffmpeg \
     curl \
     ca-certificates \
     gnupg \
-    wget \
- && apt-get clean
+    wget
 # Add NVIDIA CUDA repo for Debian 12 (bookworm) and install cuDNN 9 for CUDA 12
 ADD https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/debian12/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb /cuda-keyring.deb
-RUN dpkg -i /cuda-keyring.deb \
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/apt,sharing=locked \
+ --mount=type=cache,target=/var/lib/apt,sharing=locked \
+ dpkg -i /cuda-keyring.deb \
  && rm /cuda-keyring.deb \
  && apt-get update \
  && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
     cuda-cudart-12-6 \
     libcublas-12-6 \
     libcudnn9-cuda-12 \
-    libcudnn9-dev-cuda-12 \
- && apt-get clean \
- && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+    libcudnn9-dev-cuda-12
 ADD https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh /uv-installer.sh
 RUN sh /uv-installer.sh && rm /uv-installer.sh
 ENV PATH="/root/.local/bin/:$PATH"
@@ -39,6 +43,13 @@ COPY ./app /app/app
 COPY ./main.py /app/
 COPY ./runserver.sh /app/
 
+# prevent uv failing with too many open files on big cpus
+ENV UV_CONCURRENT_INSTALLS=16
+
+# first install
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
+    uv sync --compile-bytecode --locked
+
 EXPOSE 8000
 
 CMD ["sh", "/app/runserver.sh"]
diff --git a/gpu/self_hosted/sequoia.config b/gpu/self_hosted/sequoia.config
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bced077b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gpu/self_hosted/sequoia.config
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[hash_algorithms]
+sha1 = "always"