Blog Listing: DevOps

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?   |...

As part of the October release, Akamai’s new and improved Property Manager CLI package is now generally available. This unlocks a foundationally new approach for working with Akamai configurations, and leveraging configurations as code. This package exposes two primary commands. akamai property-manager – for people who want to make configuration changes locally in their existing environments. This also empowers different...

We recently improved our Edge Side Include (ESI) debugger UI and released a new API so developers can run a script to check whether their ESI code is running successfully at the edge.

The highly anticipated Akamai Developer World Tour is coming to a city near you, and we’re excited to share what we have in store for you. We took in all of your indispensable feedback from our previous Akamai for DevOps World Tour, and have since been brewing a highly thought-out event based on that feedback.  We’ll start the day with...

We had a blast meeting and talking DevOps and web performance with everybody at the Velocity + Fluent conference in San Jose earlier this month. In case you missed any of the Akamai Developer sessions, you can find recordings below. We had four popular speakers that you’ll want to be sure to check out: Velocity keynote: “The Secret to Building...

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...

Promotional Deployment (Update, October 2018: Promotional Deployment is now known as Akamai Pipeline) is a terrific new package for Akamai CLI that enables you to automate the promotion of changes between different environments in your deployment pipeline. This means you can now integrate CDN changes into your deployment pipeline by simply parameterizing a single configuration file to cater to different...

Advanced metadata serves an important role in the configuration ecosystem, providing custom functionality that cannot be configured via Akamai product features alone.  See the advanced metadata overview for more details on advanced metadata. However, advanced metadata as it’s typically used does have some known weaknesses (spoiler alert: we can help you address them). Those weaknesses include: You cannot add, edit,...

The Akamai 2018 Spring Release includes a wide range of product improvements, and in this blog post I’ll give you a brief overview of what’s available, or in some cases, coming soon.