Blog Listing: Testing

In this blog, we’ll learn how to run Akamai Sandbox within a Docker container to test changes before deployment. To streamline the process of setting up your developer environment, we’ll take a look at the Akamai Docker image first. The Akamai Docker image is loaded with tools including the Akamai CLI, CLI packages, and 3rd-party tools like HTTPie, cURL, and...

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...

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 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.   Every change in your configuration has the potential to break your web properties, which can lead to poor customer experiences, service outages, and even a loss in...

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...

Today is a big day for the Akamai Sandbox team and even bigger, we think, for Akamai customers. Our group of seven dedicated Akamai team members spent the last year speaking with our DevOps-savvy customers and listening to different pain points they have. After five months in beta, we’re happy to announce that we’re opening up Akamai Sandbox with general...

When you’re a developer, the more similar your test environment is to the real production environment, the better. However, with the complexities around multiple environments, third-party dependencies, and other challenges, it’s not easy to fully achieve this ideal. But every step toward that ideal improves software quality and reduces cycle times. Starting now, you can take another step in that...

The genesis of Akamai Sandbox goes back two years, when we discovered that many Akamai customers were making changes to their configs more frequently than we expected. When we started talking to these customers, we discovered three main patterns: Multiple teams: An Akamai config is usually managed by multiple teams, where each team owns a part of the logic within...

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...