Blog Listing: DevOps

This blog is part of the Akamai March Release, where we’re giving you all the details about what Akamai has added and improved for developers! You can view all of our updates here.   Large enterprises have unique needs when managing Akamai properties at scale. When you’re managing dozens or hundreds of websites across multiple business units and geographies, a single...

Many Akamai customers have adopted mature DevOps practices to improve agility and speed, and config creation (or handling) is one of the most commonly automated tasks on our platform. To help you increase your productivity even further, here are some tips for automating and testing Akamai configurations. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to: Test rapidly while you’re coding Automate...

Start your DevOps Journey with Caching As of November 2019 there were 3.5 billion purge API requests from more than 3,500 unique customers.  Are you one of them?  Akamai now offers users so many cool new DevOps features. But it can be hard to know where to start and what to introduce into your organization first.  In this article I’ll...

One of the common challenges in the DevOps world is how to incorporate a source code management (SCM) repository—such as Git or others—into a DevOps workflow. Typically, it looks like this: But specifically how does this look (and work) if you’re an Akamai customer? In this blog post, we’ll discuss SCM repositories and how Akamai products and tools can work...

Akamai announces two major releases per year (in March and October) in order to help you more easily keep up with new functionality and innovations. In this blog post, we’ll provide you with selected highlights of Akamai's October 2019 Release that we think are of particular interest for developers, admins, and architects. Akamai API Gateway JSON Web Key Set (JWKS)...

Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of Akamai Control Center, our redesigned customer and partner web-based management console and the next generation of the Luna interface. After a successful beta period with terrific feedback, we are happy to report that all customers now have access to this new experience, and can now manage Akamai’s products and services through...

The 2019 Great International Developer Summit (GIDS) is coming back to Bangalore at the Indian Institute of Science from April 22-26, 2019. For 12 years, this annual event has been a hub for software professionals to get insight on the industry’s latest tools, services, projects, platforms, languages and standards from recognized tech speakers and key companies. Akamai is excited to...

Akamai announces two major releases per year in order to help you to keep up with new functionality and find all the latest information in one place. In this blog post, we’ll provide you with an overview of what’s new in Akamai's March 2019 Release specifically for developers and admins. This blog post covers the March 2019 Release details in...

Akamai CloudTest gives you optimized testing capabilities for web and mobile apps, APIs, databases, and web services. Jenkins is one of the industry’s most popular open-source automation servers. In certain scenarios, you can combine the two of them for a superior automated testing solution. First, let’s outline one of these scenarios. Let’s say you have a CloudTest Test Composition* that...

If you haven’t read the blog post on Move Faster with Akamai Pipeline and Federated Configuration Development, it does a great job describing how to promote changes through different development environments. This post goes into more detail on how to set up the pipeline described there. These features are part of the Akamai 2018 October Release. What’s Akamai Pipeline?   |...