Joining us this week is Nick Alesandro, VP of Product at Overclock Labs; creators of The Akash Network.

About Overclock Labs

• We believe the Cloud should be distributed and decentralized so that no one provider can control the internet.
• We believe the cloud should be globally fault-tolerant to avoid any single points of failure.
• We believe the Cloud should be simple, automated, and accessible for all.

About Akash Network

Decentralized protocol for provisioning, scaling and securing cloud workloads: The world’s only on-chain auction marketplace for off-chain container deployments

Highlights

• 0 min 37 sec: Introduction of Guest
• 2 min 28 sec: High level description of the technology
  • Cloud centralization is a problem; it needs to be decentralized
  • Take over 100% or a partial amount of a machine added to the cloud network with special CoreOS based system
• 5 min 13 sec: Akash Network
  • Donate your idle servers into an available system for usage in a cloud managed by Overclock Labs
  • 2 Components – Blockchain for marketplace / Deployment platform
• 6 min 52 sec: How does marketplace work; who wants to use this network?
  • Focus is on developers who want to use these systems
  • #1 Reason – Cheaper than standard public clouds ; #2 Reason – Its distributed globally not at fixed known sites
• 10 min 26sec: Blockchain as decentralized ledger to avoid central store
  • Join the infrastructure without a formal registration on a single database; only listening for bids not publishing what they offer
  • History of the infrastructure is public for customers to evaluate
• 12 min 31 sec: How do I know where I am pushing my workloads? Can I trust the infrastructure provider?
  • Issues arise with receiving workloads that are unknown to you
• 16 min 38 sec: What do I do to add a rack of servers into Akash network?
  • What you need to do vs what you should do
  • Management Server, Network Isolation, Monitoring
  • Seasonal Load Model ~ Electric Grid Analogy
• 20 min 23 sec: Identify Geography and Latency to Customers?
• 21 min 23sec: What do I ensure I am not getting dropped or pulled into a bidding trap?
  • Workload goes down it automates a bid elsewhere in the network
  • Conditions can be set should you need a long running workload and it is terminated by the host
  • Do you expect providers to monitor machines or do you as a service?
• 27 min 45 sec: Kubernetes Cluster across providers?
  • Kubernetes Federation
  • Why Kubernetes? Writing our own Kubernetes using Kubernetes
• 31 min 55 sec: Why not do this with Virtual Machines?
  • Containers makes sense
• 32 min 40 sec: How long have you been working on this project?
  • Why of the project? DISCO → Scheduler
  • Decentralization is the key
  • Can build a private infrastructure using their system
• 37 min 01 sec: Wrap-Up