About OllaNode
Platform Brief
OllaNode delivers…
- Video pipeline: Dynamic HLS ladders (360p→4K), thumbnail sprites & Whisper transcripts.
- Edge CDN & storage: Multi-tenant pull zones on OpenResty edge, S3 storage, and Hickory DNS.
- Edge isolates: Fast V8 isolate compute with sub-millisecond cold starts.
OllaNode eliminates…
- Per-minute metering: No encoding taxes, speech transcription meters, or egress markups.
- Origin leakage: Edge playback proxies rewrite URIs so your storage origin is never leaked.
- Proprietary silos: 100% permissive open source (Apache-2.0, zero AGPL code).
1. Clean Architecture & Rust Engine
Structured as a modular Cargo workspace built in Rust (Axum) with 11 library crates and 9 independently-deployable services:
- Worker Engine: NATS JetStream by default; optional Temporal activity layer.
- Permissive OSS: Licensed under Apache-2.0 with strictly permissive dependencies.
- Hardware: Run on any standard Linux VPS with ≥ 8 vCPU and 16 GB RAM.
$ curl -X POST https://api.ollanode.com/v1/videos \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" \
-d '{"title":"launch.mp4"}'2. Modular Product Surfaces Behind One REST API
Access video, storage, DNS, edge compute, and AI agent tooling through a unified self-hosted control plane:
Adaptive HLS (360p→4K), NVENC acceleration, MP4/MP3 packaging & AES-128 encryption.
Expiring signed tokens, origin-shield proxying, cookie-scoped CDN segments & embed player.
Storyboard sprites, sampled frames, and word-level Whisper transcripts with chapters.
Text translation, natural TTS, and speech-to-text inference with zero per-character metering.
Multi-tenant pull zones on OpenResty edge with instant cache purge and token signing.
S3-compatible storage zones with presigned uploads and on-the-fly image resizing via imgproxy.
Hickory authoritative DNS serving zones and records (A/AAAA/CNAME/TXT) directly from Postgres.
JavaScript/TypeScript edge compute executed in lightweight V8 isolates with zero cold-start delay.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, approval-gated actions, and tamper-evident audit logs.
Coraza + OWASP CRS WAF, origin shielding, idempotency protection, and fine-grained rate limits.
3. Private Origin Playback & Edge Runtime
Zero origin leakage: Video bytes are never served directly from storage. The playback service rewrites HLS manifest URIs so your storage bucket credentials and endpoints are never exposed.
- Pull Zones: Routed by Host header with instantaneous cache purges.
- Storage Zones: Standard S3-compatible endpoints with integrated image optimization.
- DNS & Edge: Postgres-backed Hickory DNS records and zero-overhead V8 edge isolates.
Self-Host
On your hardware.
- ✓ Full source (Apache-2.0)
- ✓ Video pipeline + HLS
- ✓ Edge CDN & S3 storage
- ✓ Unlimited videos
- ✓ REST API & MCP server
Managed
On your cloud.
- ✓ Everything in Self-Host
- ✓ Auto upgrades & backups
- ✓ Multi-region edge PoPs
- ✓ 99.99% SLA & 24/7 support
- ✓ Dedicated engineers
5. What It Is — And What It Isn't
Direct answers to common architecture and capability questions:
Is there live streaming?
No — OllaNode is an on-demand VOD pipeline only. There is currently no RTMP or live ingest.
HLS or DASH?
HLS today. Segments are formatted in CMAF/fMP4, which is DASH-ready for the upcoming manifest update.
How does pricing work?
The software is free and open source. There are no metering systems; your only expense is your own cloud compute and storage.
What is off by default?
AI diarization, NVENC hardware transcoding, and AV1 encode tiers are fully functional but config-gated and disabled by default.
How is it licensed?
Apache-2.0, with strictly permissive dependencies (no AGPL code) — SeaweedFS, imgproxy, tusd, and Coraza.
Where is the API documented?
Machine-readable OpenAPI 3.1 specification at GET /openapi.json, with full Model Context Protocol (MCP) server support.
Ready to take control of your video infrastructure?
Deploy your cluster, run the API gateway, and transcode your first video in minutes.