Akamai CLI, Checked Against The Hash Akamai Calls A Signature
akamai on EL 10 from the GitHub release, refused by Ansible's get_url unless its SHA-256 is the one pinned beside the version: the value Akamai publishes as a .sig file, which is not a signature but the bare hash of the binary. The live test checksums the asset again and runs the CLI to its command list. Sub-CLIs and credentials are per user. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.
Verification
Live-testedReally deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.
Conformance
- Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed
Last verified 2026-09-19 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify
Documentation
akamai-cli
The Akamai CLI (akamai) on EL 10 from the vendor's GitHub release,
checked against a SHA-256 pinned beside the version, installed as root's
binary in /usr/local/bin. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with
podman on Rocky Linux 10.
No package, and no checksum file to speak of. EL 10 carries no
akamai. Akamai publishes a .sig beside each binary that is not a signature but the bare SHA-256 of the binary (64 hex characters); the values here are those files' contents, read on 2026-09-20. This role pins the SHA-256 per architecture
beside the version, has Ansible's get_url refuse the asset unless it
matches, and the live test checksums the asset on disk again. A new
release is a new pair, on purpose.
Proven to run. The live test calls akamai list with no
credentials and expects "Installed Commands" - the binary and its
Akamai client ran; only the credentials were missing.
A package manager, not an API client. akamai installs and runs
Akamai's sub-CLIs (akamai install property, ...); akamai list runs
with no credentials, which is what the live test uses. The .edgerc
credentials and the first-run question about usage statistics
(akamai config set cli.enable-cli-statistics false) are per user.
License
Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.
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