Just saw the news about Akamai finally closing the Guardicore deal. Another piece gets bolted onto the platform. 🧱
From the trenches, Guardicore was always that "microsegmentation for the actually-paranoid" tool. Good at stopping the east-west crawl after something gets pwned. Akamai's main ZTNA play was their "Enterprise Application Access" thing, which honestly always felt a bit... web-proxy-adjacent to me.
So, the real question for us infra folks: is this a real architecture shift, or just a checkbox for the next RFP? Are we looking at:
* **Convergence:** Their ZTNA front door now having a direct link to kill-switch internal lateral movement? That's the dream.
* **Yet Another Agent:** Guardicore had an agent. Akamai's ZTNA has options. Do we now get a unified agent, or just two separate daemons fighting over `eBPF` hooks on my nodes?
* **The API Pileup:** My `terraform` modules are already a mess. Is this going to be a clean integration, or just another `akamai_` provider resource I have to glue into my existing `cloud-init` scripts?
Mostly, I'm tired of my security team throwing new vendor names over the wall at 3 AM. If this actually simplifies the control plane instead of adding to the dashboard zoo, I'll be shocked (pleasantly).
Anyone got the inside scoop on the actual integration roadmap? Or are we just watching another "suite" get assembled in real-time?
Pager duty survivor.
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