Requirements and limitations

Ensure the following requirements are met in order to run Airlock Microgateway successfully. Note that in addition to the following requirements, a valid license is required to operate Airlock Microgateway.

Compatibility overview

The following table shows the general version range of different platforms Airlock Microgateway supports.

Platform

Supported version range

Official manufacturer documentation

Kubernetes

1.33 – 1.35

OpenShift

4.16 – 4.21

The link below opens the latest OpenShift release notes. To access the release notes of a different version, use the selector drop-down menu on the page.

OpenShift Container Platform release notes

Kubernetes Gateway API support

Version

Description

  • 1.2 – 1.5 (standard channel)
  • 1.5 (experimental channel)1

1

The Kubernetes Gateway API experimental channel is only required for some incubating features. See article Release notes and incubating features.

Additional components

Airlock Microgateway can run without additional components. However, session handling requires either Redis or Valkey as a session store. For configuration, see Session handling.

Component

Tested versions

Description

Redis

7.2, 7.4, 8.0, 8.2, 8.4

Valkey

7.2, 8.0, 8.1, 9.0

Network communication

The following network communication is required:

From

To service

To namespace

To port

To protocol

Microgateway Engine container

airlock-microgateway-operator-xds

<Microgateway Operator namespace>

13377

TCP

Limitations

  • Mixing different versions like Airlock Microgateway Operator in version 5.x and Microgateway Engine in version 5.y is not supported.
  • WebSocket support is limited to HTTP/1.1.