Automation at the Edge

CI/CD Pipelines for Content Delivery Networks

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1. Automation at the Edge CI/CD Pipelines for Content Delivery Networks
2. Introduction Akshay Ranganath @rakshay akshayranganath Duncan McAllister @dmcallis2 mcallisterdu
3. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) Caching Network Acceleration Content Targeting Security
4. Content Delivery – more than caching… Application Load Balancing Multivariate Testing Feature Toggles Content Assembly
5. Who interfaces with the CDN? Developers Network Engineers QA Security Sales and Marketing
6. Leverage CDN Features Faster With enough handoffs, the work can completely loose the context of the problem being solved or the organizational goal being supported.” “ Velocity of CDN releases need to keep pace with everything else CDN integrated environments should be easily obtainable Fast feedback to enable small incremental versions Quick roll-back and issue reproducibility is key to promote solution stability
7. CDN CI/CD Considerations Security – Certificates and Secrets management Operational – Deployment, Traffic Management, Cache management Provisioning – self-service / ephemeral environments Testing – TTLs, Behaviors, Content
8. Akamai fits into your DevOps pipeline Property Manager API Akamai CLI Fast Activations Custom Behaviors mPulse ESI Test Server Docker Image CloudTest Fast Purge APIs Edge Side Includes Akamai CLI Fast Fallback Cloudlets
9. Make Akamai interact with your APIs on your terms APIs for Everything Global traffic management Fast purge Network and DNS diagnostics Secure provisioning & identity management Developers Developers Developers Developers A U T O M A T E
10. Programmatic interface to manage processes at the Akamai Edge Property Manager API A U T O M A T E Integrate Akamai properties into your existing workflows Manage your Property Config as code
11. Manage and configure Akamai from the Command Line. Akamai CLI A U T O M A T E Current capabilities include: Property Configuration, Fast Purge, and Visitor Prioritization Easy installation and management of new features Build your own packages in 9 supported languages
12. Tying It All Together Akamai CLI Akamai {OPEN} APIs Scripts / Tests Off the Shelf Tools CDN CI / CD Pipeline
13. CDN Delivery Pipeline Provision, Deploy, Activate processes are accomplished using the CLI CDN features are introduced via the Property Manager UI / PAPI VCS becomes the source of truth for CDN logic (metadata) Merge event triggers deployment pipeline
14. Consolidated Pipeline Sequence
15. CI Defined Logic is implemented in a GOLD dev Property Manager Instance All changes are captured and tested within a short-lived feature branch. Ephemeral Environment used to deploy and test the feature branch artifact. Platform warnings/errors are captured and used to fail validation pipeline if encountered.
16. CDN Feature Testing HTTP Headers are inspected to validate Edge features Validate object TTL assignment, response codes Analyze session debug headers to determine proper behaviors are being applied Additional response attributes to consider: encoding, protocol version,
17. Best Practices Avoid monolithic configurations Avoid snow-flakes Test CDN setup early in life-cycle Monitor: Traffic, offload, errors Integrate with CMS
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19. ThankYou