Akamas is deployed as a set of containerized services running on Docker and managed via Docker Compose. In the online installation mode, the latest version of the Akamas Docker Compose file and all the images required by Docker can be downloaded from the AWS ECR repository.

In case the Akamas Server is behind a proxy server please also read how to setup Akamas behind a Proxy.

Get Akamas Docker artifacts

It is suggested first to create a directory akamas in the home directory of your user, and then run the following command to get the latest compose file:

cd ~
mkdir akamas
cd akamas
curl -O https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/akamas/compose/$(curl https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/akamas/compose/stable.txt)/docker-compose.yml

Configure Akamas environment variables

To configure Akamas, you should set the following environment variables:

• AKAMAS_CUSTOMER: the customer name matching the one referenced in the Akamas license.

• AKAMAS_BASE_URL: the endpoint in the Akamas APIs that will be used to interact with the CLI, typically http://<akamas server dns address>:8000

You can export the variables using the following snippet:

# Add double quotes ("xx xx") if the name contains white spaces
export AKAMAS_CUSTOMER=<your name or your organization name>
export AKAMAS_BASE_URL=http://<akamas server DNS address>:8000

It is recommended to save these exported variables in your ~/.bashrc file for convenience.

Start Akamas

In order to login into AWS ECR and pull the most recent Akamas container images you also need to set the AWS authentication variables to the appropriate values provided by Akamas Customer Support Services by running the following command:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<your access key id>
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<your secret access key>
export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-2

At this point, you can start installing Akamas server by running the following AWS CLI commands:

aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-2 | docker login -u AWS --password-stdin https://485790562880.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com

docker compose up -d

This section describes how to setup an Akamas Server behind a proxy server and to allow Docker to connect to the Akamas repository on AWS ECR.

Configure Docker daemon

First, create the /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d directory if it does not already exists. Then create or update the /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/http-proxy.conf file with the variables listed below, taking care of replacing <PROXY> with the address and port (and credentials if needed) of your target proxy server:

Once configured, flush the changes and restart Docker with the following commands:

For more details, refer to the official documentation page: .

Configure the Akamas containers

To allow the Akamas services to connect to addresses outside your intranet, the Docker instance needs to be configured to forward the proxy configuration to the Akamas containers.

Update the ~/.docker/config.json file adding the following field to the JSON, taking care to replace <PROXY> with the address (and credentials if needed) of your target proxy server:

Run Akamas

Set the following variables to configure your working environment, taking care to replace <PROXY> with the address (and credentials if needed) of your target proxy server:

Once configured, you can log into the ECR repository through the AWS CLI and start the Akamas services manually.