Blog Listing: Property Manager

Many companies today rely on Akamai’s Media Services Live and Adaptive Media Delivery for a full end-to-end livestreaming workflow - from ingesting multiple bitrates with high stability to delivering these streams to a global audience with as little latency as possible. For companies managing multiple livestreams often ranging from 24/7 streams to multiple event streams occurring at the same time,...

This blog post will go over how you can migrate from advanced metadata to custom behaviors so you can directly manage and edit your configurations without going through Akamai professional services. Akamai Edge servers are smart reverse proxies located at the edge of the Internet that you can leverage to deliver fast and high-quality content to your end-users. Two of...

This blog is part of the Akamai Platform 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.   The Akamai Pipeline feature is part of the Property Manager (PM) command-line interface (CLI). It automates the Akamai portion of release processes when used with a GitOps-driven...

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...

TIP: If you encounter any unfamiliar terms related to Akamai network and property management in this blog post, check the Glossary section at the end. In order to run your API on Akamai, the first thing you need to do is set up your backend Luna Property Manager configuration. In this blog post, I’ll show you exactly how to do...

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,...

Property Manager and its corresponding Open API (which we call "PAPI" for short because it's the Property Manager API) are powerful tools to manage the way your web content is delivered on the Akamai platform. Using Property Manager and PAPI's nested rules with matches and behaviors, you can do almost anything. Please note that I said "almost anything." In order...

We continue to add features and improve the developer experience for the Property Manager API (PAPI), and here are the recent key improvements you should be aware of: Improved Search – The search endpoint now includes properties that have not yet been activated.  Search allows you to retrieve a particular property (by property name, hostnames and edge hostnames) without traversing...

There are times when you want to automatically clone and edit a configuration, rather than doing it manually through Luna. By using the Property Manager API (PAPI), you can do exactly that. This is particularly beneficial in the case where you have a "Master Config" with all the required optimizations that you want to use as a template for creating...

Last year, I worked with a customer to support the transformation of their configuration, their application, and their procedures to be more streamlined and DevOps. As part of that, they had an initially vague, but interesting requirement - Improve the Release Process. What they meant was that the Akamai part of a release had high friction: Changes can only be...