Test Drive: Cosmos
summary
Akash is a decentralized cloud marketplace that runs Docker containers on other people’s infrastructure, pays providers in AKT per block (~5s), and uses SDL manifests to solicit bids which are accepted on-chain. Demo deploys two containers (Go app + Redis), images hosted on GitHub Container Registry, deployment runs in Kubernetes, mainnet3 adds persistent storage, no autoscaling yet, provider attributes and paid auditors handle reliability, CLI and akashlytics GUI exist, and the project claims being 10x cheaper than major cloud vendors.
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- 0:00Akash Network intro
- 1:25Live demo: Akashlytics
- 2:29Deploy Docker on Akash
- 3:55Test paste bin app
- 5:26Q&A: AKT token & pricing
- 6:30Lease renegotiation & storage
- 7:11Reliability in decentralized cloud
- 9:40Deploy hardware to Akash
- 11:02Container security isolation
- 12:26Close & redeploy apps
- 13:50Scaling on Akash
- 16:43Malicious actors & limits
- 17:44Container metrics & shell
- 19:31Pricing vs AWS
- 21:00Community & privacy
- 23:51Adoption barriers & plans
- 25:15Lowering dev barriers
- 26:38IBC & Cosmos growth
- 28:43Closing & Q&A
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