All About OpenClaw. Hands-On Deployment Workshop - North Dallas Surroundings
Deploying OpenClaw on GCP — 60-Minute Developer Workshop
Joshua Waller, Director of Technical Evangelism at Phala will lead the session. This event is hosted by AI Collective North Dallas Chapter.
Join this hands-on session to deploy a running OpenClaw Gateway on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Compute Engine, Docker, and SSH. By the end, you’ll have a live gateway running in your own cloud environment and understand the complete deployment workflow.
Agenda
00:00–00:05 — Welcome & Objectives
00:05–00:15 — GCP Project Setup (project, billing, APIs, gcloud login)
00:15–00:25 — Create & SSH into Compute Engine VM
00:25–00:30 — Install Docker and prepare VM
00:30–00:40 — Clone and configure OpenClaw (env, volumes, compose)
00:40–00:50 — Build and run OpenClaw Gateway
00:50–00:55 — Access Control UI via SSH tunnel
00:55–01:00 — Q&A and next steps
Takeaways
Deploy containerized applications on GCP Compute Engine
Configure Docker, environment variables, and persistent storage
Run and access the OpenClaw Gateway securely
Be ready to extend the deployment with integrations and workflows,
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