Hey everyone — I’m Joshua Waller, Director of Technical Evangelism at Phala, where we built dstack — an open framework for Confidential Compute and Private AI. Today we won’t be focusing on Private AI, but we will be exploring how to deploy OpenClaw on Google Cloud Platform using Compute Engine and Docker.
The goal is to walk out of here with a live, working Gateway running on GCP — and a clear mental model of how each piece fits together.
We’ll do this step‑by‑step, and I’ll pause at milestones to make sure everyone is on the same page before moving forward. If you get stuck, we’ll solve it together — no one gets left behind.
What you’ll accomplish today: