Architecture of sidecar-based Airlock Microgateway deployments

The articles in this chapter address the Airlock Microgateway sidecar-based data plane mode where a Microgateway Engine sidecar is injected into each application Pod, based on a special label. Within the application Pod, the Microgateway CNI plugin reconfigures the routing so that all traffic from the application pod runs via the engine sidecar.

sidecar_Micrograteway_setup.drawio
  • North-South traffic:
  • Upstream Ingress controller.
  • Service A of type LoadBalancer.
  • Service A of type NodePort.
  • East-West traffic:
  • Traffic through Service A.

If you are looking for sidecarless Microgateway installation and deployment forms, see the article Architecture of K8s Gateway API-based sidecarless Airlock Microgateway deployments.