👨‍💼 Instructions for Participating Builders

1. Set Up Your Account

• Visit Akash Console: https://console.akash.network/

• Click “Start Free Trial” - this should put $100 in your account (you will need a valid credit card that will NOT be charged)

• Visit AkashML.com and create a new account - (you will need a valid credit card that will NOT be charged) This will give you $100 in credits to use for model inference tokens. 

• Play around with the playground and create an API key for use with your application.

2. Get familiar with deploying workloads on Akash

• Browse available templates https://console.akash.network/templates

• Try deploying one or more workloads to get familiar with how to deploy. 

3. Prepare Your Application

• Containerize your application using Docker

• Ensure your Docker image is publicly accessible (Docker Hub, GitHub Container Registry, etc.)

• Test your container locally before the event.

Documentation

• 📖 Official Akash Docs

• 🎯 Deployment Guides

• 📝 SDL Reference

• 🎨 Awesome Akash Templates

Community Support

💬 Akash Discord - Get help in the #deployments channel
💬 AkashML Discord- Get help
🐦 @akashnet on Twitter