Akash is a cloud infrastructure platform whose resources are provided by independent datacenters. A high-level overview of the Akash Protocol can be found here; a detailed protocol definition can be found here; and the target workload definition spec is here.

This repository contains Akash Suite, the reference implementation of the Akash Protocol. It is an actively-developed prototype currently focused on the distributed marketplace functionality.

The Akash Suite is composed of two applications: akash and akashd. akashd is the (tendermint-powered) blockchain node that implements the decentralized exchange; akash is the client used to access the exchange and network in general.

• Dependencies
  • MacOS
  • Arch Linux
• Akash Suite

Akash is developed and tested with golang 1.8+. Building requires a working golang installation, a properly set GOPATH, and $GOPATH/bin present in $PATH.

Additional requirements are:

• glide: Golang library management.

For development environments, requirements include:

• protocol buffers: Protobuf compiler.

Most golang libraries will be packaged in the local vendor/ directory via glide, however the following packages will be installed globally with their binaries placed in $GOPATH/bin by make devdeps-install:

• gogoprotobuf: Golang protobuf compiler plugin.
• mockery: Mock generator.

See below for dependency installation instructions for various platforms.

brew install glide

# dev environment only:
brew install protobuf

curl https://glide.sh/get | sh

# dev environment only:
sudo pacman -Sy protobuf

Download and build akash and akashd:

go get -d github.com/ovrclk/akash
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/ovrclk/akash
make deps-install
make

# dev environment only:
make devdeps-install

We use thin integration testing environments to simplify the development and testing process. We currently have two environments:

• Single node: simple single node running locally
• Multi node: multi-node setup within a virtual machine.

Each of these environments can demonstrate:

• Sending tokens from one account to another.
• Creating provider accounts.
• Running a provider which bids on open orders.
• Creating deployments.
• Obtaining leases for deployments.
• Monitoring marketplace activity.
• Querying details of all objects.