diff --git a/rust-bindings/rust/.gitlab-ci.yml b/rust-bindings/rust/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 80fbc5b3..8484271e 100644
--- a/rust-bindings/rust/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/rust-bindings/rust/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -1,20 +1,24 @@
 image: rust:latest
 
 variables:
-  CARGO_TARGET_DIR: ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/target
   # --all-features
   CURRENT_FEATURES: --features v2018_9
+  SCCACHE_URL: https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/releases/download/0.2.8/sccache-0.2.8-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz
+  CARGO_TARGET_DIR: ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/target
   CARGO_HOME: ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/cargo
+  SCCACHE_DIR: ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/sccache
+  RUSTC_WRAPPER: sccache
 
 before_script:
 - echo deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
 - apt-get update
 - apt-get install -y -t stretch-backports cmake libostree-dev
+- wget -O - ${SCCACHE_URL} | tar -C /usr/bin/ -xz --wildcards --strip-components=1 '*/sccache'
 
 cache:
   paths:
   - cargo/
-  - target/
+  - sccache/
 
 stages:
 - check
@@ -32,8 +36,6 @@ check:
 
 gir:
   stage: check
-  before_script:
-  - rm -f target/tools/bin/gir
   script:
   - rm -rf src/auto/
   - make gir
@@ -83,7 +85,6 @@ docs:
       --extern-html-root-url glib=https://gtk-rs.org/docs
       --extern-html-root-url gio=https://gtk-rs.org/docs
   script:
-  - rm -rf target/doc
   - make merge-lgpl-docs
   - cargo rustdoc --verbose --package ostree-sys --features dox -- ${RUSTDOC_OPTS}
   - cargo rustdoc --verbose --package ostree --features dox -- ${RUSTDOC_OPTS}