akamai mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• akamai

Projektgeschichte

The public GitHub repository was created in May 2017. The README describes a base CLI that can install ready-to-use product packages or serve as a framework for custom solutions written in Go, Python, or JavaScript.

The project adopted a package-oriented model inside the CLI itself. Built-in commands such as `install`, `uninstall`, `update`, `upgrade`, `search`, and `config` manage command packages under `$HOME/.akamai-cli`, while product packages use executable naming conventions such as `akamai-<command>`.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Adoption follows Akamai's developer and operations audience. Official instructions cover release binaries, Homebrew, Docker images, and building from source, which made the CLI available both to local workstation users and CI/container users.

The README explicitly documents the Homebrew formula path for users who want package-manager updates, while non-Homebrew installs can use the CLI's own upgrade check introduced for v0.3.0 or later.

Wie es verwendet wird

The central operational file is `~/.edgerc`, the standard EdgeGrid credential file. Akamai-branded packages use it by default, and commands can override the file and section with `--edgerc` and `--section`.

A common workflow is to install the base `akamai` command, install a product package such as Property Manager, then run product-specific commands with shared global flags such as `--accountkey`, `--edgerc`, and `--section`.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Akamai CLI is interesting to package nerds because it is both a package and a package host. Homebrew installs the base binary, and the binary then manages its own Git-backed command packages in `$HOME/.akamai-cli`.

That layered model is common among vendor CLIs with broad API surfaces: keep the base command stable, then let product teams ship smaller command repositories without turning one formula into a giant monolith.

Zeitleiste

• 2017: Public `akamai/cli` repository created.
• v0.3.0 and later: README documents first-run automatic upgrade checks for non-Homebrew installs.
• 2026: Repository metadata still points users to Akamai developer CLI documentation.

Related projects

• Akamai EdgeGrid: the authentication scheme and `.edgerc` credential format used by Akamai-branded CLI packages.
• akamai-docker: official Docker images that bundle the CLI and public packages.
• Akamai product CLI packages: GitHub repositories named with the `cli-` convention and installable through `akamai install`.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/akamai/cli
• https://github.com/akamai/cli
• https://techdocs.akamai.com/developer/docs/about-clis
• input source_facts.repo