OpenClaw GCP Deployment

Deploys OpenClaw to Google Cloud Platform using the official alpine/openclaw Docker image.

Quick Start

Local Development

# Copy environment template
cp .env.example .env

# Edit .env with your settings
# Then start the gateway
docker compose up -d openclaw-gateway

GCP Deployment

The GitHub Actions workflow automatically deploys to GCP Compute Engine on push to main.

Required GitHub Secrets

Secret	Description
GCP_PROJECT_ID	Your GCP project ID
GCP_SA_KEY	Service account JSON key (base64 encoded)
GCP_ZONE	Compute Engine zone (e.g., us-central1-a)
OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN	Gateway security token
OPENAI_API_KEY	OpenAI API key (optional)
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY	Anthropic API key (optional)
GOOGLE_API_KEY	Google AI API key (optional)

Manual Deployment

Trigger the workflow manually from GitHub Actions to deploy a specific image tag:

• openclaw_image_tag: Version to deploy (e.g., latest, 2026.2.2)

Access

After deployment, connect via SSH tunnel:

gcloud compute ssh openclaw-gateway --zone=YOUR_ZONE -- -L 18789:127.0.0.1:18789

Then open: http://127.0.0.1:18789/

Files

• docker-compose.yml - Container orchestration
• config/openclaw.json - OpenClaw configuration
• .github/workflows/deploy-gcp.yml - GCP deployment workflow