Blog Listing: CLI

If you’d prefer not to write to Akamai's APIs to control Akamai API Gateway, you now have another option: our command-line interface (aka Akamai CLI). Specifically, the new Akamai API Gateway CLI package allows you to control 12 common API Gateway functions using a non-GUI interface — and without writing a line of code. This helps you script or automate...

Akamai Adaptive Acceleration, the performance-optimization feature set included with Ion, uses real user monitoring (RUM) data—with Akamai mPulse as the data beacon source—to identify and preemptively push and preconnect elements in order to optimize website performance. Adaptive Acceleration Reset is a new tool to ensure that you have all of the latest optimizations available for your site. Adaptive Acceleration Reset...

UPDATE, October 2018: the CLI for CPS now supports third-party certificate management. For more details, scroll down to the "Update" section at the bottom of this page. The Akamai Certificate Provisioning System (CPS) provides full life cycle management of SSL certificates on the Akamai platform. From requesting new certificates to modifying or renewing existing ones to managing TLS ciphers and...

In a world where web applications are continuously evolving and deploying at a breakneck pace, automating web application security is more important than ever.  That’s why we’re excited to share our Application Security API and corresponding Akamai CLI for Application Security for use in beta to help you automate your security. It’s easy to get started. What follows is a...

With this week’s announcement of Akamai CLI 1.0 as a part of the 2018 Spring Release, now seems like a great time to highlight new functionality for Akamai CLI.

This is one in a series of posts about the Akamai 2018 Spring Release. For an overview of the Spring Release, see our post here.  Last June, we announced Akamai CLI, a new way to manage and configure Akamai from the command line. At the same time, we also introduced Akamai CLI for Property Manager, and Akamai CLI for Purge....

A major driving force throughout the creation and ongoing development of our CLI suite—including CLI Property, among other tools—has been the desire to achieve superior usability. We know that our customers need to work with Akamai APIs to integrate our platform into their processes, so every choice we make is carefully considered to see how it will affect the user experience.

Earlier this year we introduced the Akamai CLI, a new way to manage and configure Akamai from the command line, and our customers have been very excited about it. Along the way, several customers asked if there's an easier method for installing the binary and getting started. We noticed that a lot of you use Node already, so we created...

Part of the Akamai Cloudlets family, Visitor Prioritization (typically referred to as simply VP) has long been an integral component in allowing our customers to protect their origins in a flexible, on-demand, real-time manner. By offering user-friendly waiting rooms and extremely customizable rules, VP helps provide a positive user experience even when traffic volumes are unpredictable or during any time of origin difficulty.

Today is the first of our regular updates on the new Akamai CLI where we plan to keep you appraised of new features, changes, and new packages. One of the primary goals for Akamai CLI is to maximize User Experience (UX) and Developer Experience (DX) when you work with the Akamai platform. Akamai CLI 0.3 brings some exciting new features...