Blog Listing: CLI

If you’re familiar with creating an Akamai Property Manager configuration, you might be used to the manual process through the Akamai Control Center.  You usually have to navigate to create the initial product property, add any additional rules, configure the hostname and SSL certificate, activate it on the Akamai network, and integrate with the appropriate Akamai security configuration. With CLI...

If you manage a site using a content management system (CMS), you probably have a workflow that involves several teams. There's a team to publish content, a team to purge cached content from your content delivery network (CDN), along with many other teams. In this blog post, I'll go over how you can optimize operations by automating purging via the...

Akamai’s EdgeWorld 2019 conference was four jam-packed days of fantastic ideas, demonstrations, and discussions. I wanted to share with you a talk I provided at the conference, which shows an extendable framework you can implement in less than 60 minutes. This framework allows you to completely automate the management of Akamai properties using open source tools. You can watch the...

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.