Airlock Microgateway editions and support

The editions at a glance

To run Airlock Microgateway a valid license is required. Licenses are available in two license editions:

Community edition

Premium edition

Purpose

Small environments or local development

Enterprise setups

Features

All features but restricted operational parameters

All features1)

License

The community edition license is available for free:
https://airlock.com/microgateway-community

The premium edition is vailable through your Airlock partner:
https://airlock.com/microgateway-premium

Costs

Free

According to license

Support

Community support forum

See: Support

Premium support

See: Support

Community vs. Premium editions in detail

The following table details features and differences between the editions:

Functionality

Community edition

Premium edition

Kubernetes native integration
Operator and CRDs, hot-reload, Istio support, automatic sidecar injection, …

Yes

Yes

Reverse proxy
Request routing, TLS termination, client certificate authentication, remote IP extraction, ...

Yes

Yes

Envoy native filters
Lua scripting, RBAC, ext_authz, JWT authentication, ...

Yes

Yes

Content security (OWASP Top 10)
Deny rules against attacks (SQLi, XSS, …), custom deny rules, sanity checks, security headers, …

Yes

Yes

Access control 3)
Authentication enforcement, OIDC, identity propagation, …

Yes

Yes 1)

API security
JSON Parser, OpenAPI specifications enforcement 3) , ...

Yes

Yes

Denial-of-Service (DoS) protection
Limits can be set for protection against DoS attacks.

Yes

Yes

More security features 3)
Allow Rules, CSRF Tokens, ...

Yes

Yes

Encoding enforcement
Strictly enforcing UTF8.

Yes

Yes

Session Management 3)
Secure session handling for multiple Airlock Microgateways.

Yes

Yes

Observability
Structured logs and Prometheus metrics.

Yes

Yes

Throughput
Number of concurrent allowed requests over all Airlock Microgateways.

5 requests per second

Up to unlimited 1)

Sidecars
Number of Pods that Airlock Microgateway can protect.

3

Unlimited

Custom error pages 3)

No

Yes

License expiration
Time period the license is valid before a renewal is required.

6 months

12 months

Service life 2)
The version which is enforced by the minVersion license attribute.

The oldest supported version

Unrestricted

Training
Documentation, Kubernetes manifest files, examples, virtual labs, …

Yes

Yes

Support

Community Support

Premium Support

1)

Licensing of Airlock Microgateway is based on the required throughput. The module Access control can be licensed in addition.

2)

Using up-to-date software is an important pillar in any security strategy. Therefore, we restrict the usage of old releases with the minVersion license attribute to motivate administrators to keep their Airlock Microgateway image up-to-date. Our Premium edition clients are excluded from this restriction since we advise them directly.

3)

Coming soon with one of the next Airlock Microgateway releases.

Support

The Airlock support process distinguishes between the Community and Premium edition of Airlock Microgateway .

Community edition

The public Airlock Community Support Forum is available for questions and free support around the Community edition:

  • Posting is possible for registered users.
  • The forum is managed by Airlock employees.

Premium edition

Access to Airlock’s world-class support staffed by highly-trained and knowledgeable security engineers, well-versed in all relevant technologies: