diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1.ebuild
index a05dcc66fc..1bf5733ba7 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1.ebuild
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	app-admin/sudo
 	sys-apps/less
 	dev-embedded/u-boot-tools
-	dev-util/ccache
 	dev-util/crosutils
 	!arm64? ( sys-boot/syslinux )
 	sys-devel/crossdev
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults
index 591b474c89..55be63312d 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults
@@ -79,14 +79,6 @@ LINGUAS="en"
 PORTAGE_BZIP2_COMMAND="lbzip2"
 PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND="lbunzip2"
 
-# Compression allows keeping a much more complete cache, otherwise the
-# kernel alone will eat 1.2GB instead of 455MB. Using /var/tmp/ccache
-# instead of ${ROOT}/var/tmp/ccache enables sharing results across
-# setup_board --force and between different boards of the same arch.
-CCACHE_COMPRESS=1
-CCACHE_COMPILERCHECK=content
-CCACHE_DIR="/var/tmp/ccache"
-
 # Always build binary packages, remove old build logs, avoid running as root.
 FEATURES="buildpkg clean-logs compressdebug parallel-install splitdebug
           userfetch userpriv usersandbox ipc-sandbox network-sandbox
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 7121574d1c..218e9f090f 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
@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@ 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"
-
 # add cros_host to bootstrapping USE flags so SDK / toolchains bootstrapping
 # will use vim's vimrc instead of baselayouts',
 BOOTSTRAP_USE="$BOOTSTRAP_USE cros_host"
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use
index 40b3c746fc..450df4a492 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ coreos-base/update_engine delta_generator
 
 dev-vcs/git pcre
 
-dev-util/catalyst ccache
 dev-lang/python sqlite
 
 dev-lang/rust rustfmt