akamai

Akamai CLI

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Use the Akamai command-line interface (CLI) to configure Akamai's platform and products directly from the command line. You can install ready-to-use product packages or build your own custom solutions to manage from CLI.

Benefits

• Simple and task-oriented interface.
• Consistent user experience across all Akamai products.
• Wide range of supported packages and capabilities.
• Extend or build your own CLI packages with supported programming languages such as Go, Python, and JavaScript.

Install base Akamai CLI package

Akamai CLI doesn't have any dependencies and is quick to install. However, you may need an additional runtime for packages depending on the programming language they are based on.

If you're using a Python-based CLI package, install these additional dependencies:

• Python 3.3 or above
• Python 3 pip package installer
• Python 3 venv module
• Up-to-date common CA certificates for your operating system (PEM files)

Install from binaries

Download a release binary compatible with your operating system.

• Linux and macOS. Once you download the appropriate binary for your system, make it executable and move it to a directory you have write access to. Optionally, you can add the directory to your $PATH environment variable. Run these commands:

    $ chmod +x ~/Downloads/akamai-<VERSION>-<PLATFORM>
    $ mv ~/Downloads/akamai-<VERSION>-<PLATFORM> /usr/local/bin/akamai

• Windows. Once you download the appropriate binary for your system, you can execute the binary from the command line. For example:

    $ akamai.exe help

Install with Homebrew

You can also install Akamai CLI using the Homebrew package manager. If you haven’t used it before, check Homebrew documentation for system requirements and read the installation guide.

Once set up, run this command: