Sidecar-based architectures

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.

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 Sidecarless (K8s Gateway API).