ansible-akamai

Ansible Module for working with Akamai OPEN APIs

Prerequisites

• Python 2.7.10+ (NOTE: This is higher then Ansible, which can run on Python 2.6 - 2.7.9)
• Edgegrid-Python (install with pip install edgegrid-python), works with Python 2.7.10+

Install

• Drop akamai.py into ./library in any Ansible playbook, then invoke it like any standard module

Credentials

• Akamai OPEN credentials are required to use this module. A reference to get the credentials can be found here - Get Credentials

• The currently supported method for storing credentials is via an .edgerc file, the recommended location to store the file is in the home directory

Variables

• section - Section of .edgerc file
• endpoint - API endpoint to hit
• method - GET or POST, similar to HTTPie and the Akamai CLI
• body - The request body that needs to used only for POST method
  • "productId": "prd_Alta",
  • "propertyName": "my.new.property.com",
• headers - The request headers that needs to used only for POST method
  • "Content-Type": "application/json"
  • "PAPI-Use-Prefixes": "true"

Acknowledgements

• The Akamai Technologies api-kickstart repository where many other Akamai API examples are available!
• The Akamai API Catalog: https://developer.akamai.com/api/