Blog Listing: DevOps

Many companies today are looking for easier ways to automate vendor services. This blog will help you understand the Akamai Developer toolbox and how you can utilize it. I’ll give you a better understanding of what the Akamai Developer toolbox offers and how you can best utilize this in your workflows and overall digital ecosystem.  What is the goal of...

A security information and event management solution (SIEM) is an important part of any DevSecOps strategy. Analyzing security events and creating visualizations and reports allows you to fine-tune the security for your infrastructure and bolster the security of your applications, APIs, data and endpoints. SIEM tools are often used to collect logs for origin servers, internal firewalls, or other sources...

With the Akamai Terraform Provider, you are able to manage your Akamai-as-code. The Akamai Terraform Provider offers you the ability to execute key use-cases to manage your Akamai solutions. The Akamai Terraform Provider is officially approved by HashiCorp, who maintains Terraform.  You can find the full documentation including code examples and Getting Started tutorials on the Terraform Documentation website: https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/akamai/index.html...

This blog post covers the Akamai Developer Webinar, “Akamai-as-code With The Washington Post" in which Ian Baker, Technical Director at the Washington Post and Yair Greenbaum, Engagement Manager at Akamai, explain how Arc Publishing (a Washington Post company) created an effective DevOps practice to manage their infrastructure as code.  Arc Publishing, a Washington Post company, offers an intuitive, comprehensive suite...

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...

Geo fencing allows you to ensure that media assets can only be accessed in a given country or region. In this blog, I'll walk through how you can set up a simple web app that runs on Heroku. With this app, you can serve a basic page with a specific video asset hosted on NetStorage for any requests starting with...

Protecting websites against SQL injections and other security attacks has never been easier. In this blog post, I'll demonstrate a workflow that allows to protect against an SQL injection attack by configuring a firewall at the Edge. See the full demo at the end of this post.  For the origin, I used a PHP web server called DVWA (available in...

The Akamai command-line interface (CLI) is a powerful and extensible toolkit that allows you to manage and configure Akamai's platform and various products directly from the command line. For those of you doing DevOps, the CLI simplifies the integration of Akamai into your existing CI/CD automation. It delivers a unified developer experience for anyone who needs to work with or...

This blog was updated on September 9th, 2020. The Akamai Development Environment comes in the form of a Docker container pre-loaded with our command line interface (CLI) and many CLI packages and third party tools like HTTPie, curl, and Terraform that allow you to automate the management of Akamai services easily. Introducing the technology: Docker | Docker containers encapsulate everything...

Akamai offers solutions for web, API, media, security, IoT, enterprise applications, infrastructure solutions, and DNS. Managing all those services was traditionally done using the Akamai Control Center, but it can be time consuming when you have a large number of properties and services with frequent updates. This is where APIs come into place. Akamai offers a rich library of more...