diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/make.defaults b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/make.defaults
index a9845fe9aa..04af0a2ef3 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/make.defaults
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/make.defaults
@@ -12,3 +12,6 @@ QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="x86_64 i386 aarch64"
 
 # For cross build support.
 QEMU_USER_TARGETS="aarch64"
+
+# Disable ccache in the SDK so it stops randomly breaking catalyst.
+FEATURES="-ccache"