License editions

The editions at a glance

To run Airlock Microgateway a valid license is required. Airlock 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
  • Throughput is enforced
  • All licensed features
  • Throughput is not enforced

License

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

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

Costs

Free

According to license

Support

Community support forum

See section Support plans.

Premium support

See section Support plans.

Community vs. Premium editions in detail

The following table shows feature details and differences between the editions:

Functionality

Community edition

Premium edition

Kubernetes native integration
Operator and CRDs, hot-reload, Kubernetes Gateway API, Red Hat OpenShift Certification, Cilium support, Istio support, …

Yes

Yes

Reverse proxy
Request routing, support for HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, gRPC, TLS termination, mTLS for up- and downstream connections, remote IP extraction, ...

Yes

Yes

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

Yes

Yes

Access control
Authentication enforcement, JWT authentication, OIDC Relying Party, identity propagation, OAuth2 Token Exchange, client certificate authentication, …

Yes

Yes 1)

API security
JSON parser, OpenAPI specifications enforcement, GraphQL schema validation, ...

Yes

Yes

Denial-of-Service (DoS) protection
Limit request size, limit number of sessions per IP, ...

Yes

Yes

More security features
CSRF protection, custom error pages, JA3 and JA4 fingerprint, ...

Yes

Yes

Encoding enforcement
Strictly enforcing UTF8.

Yes

Yes

Session Management
Secure session handling.

Yes

Yes

Observability
Structured logs and Prometheus metrics.

Yes

Yes

Throughput
Number of requests.

  • 5 requests per second
  • enforced
  • Up to unlimited requests per month 2)
  • not enforced

Reporting dashboard
Reporting dashboards with pre-configured use cases.

Yes

Yes

Installation mode
Installation modes that can be used to watch resources.

  • All-Namespace
  • Own-Namespace
  • Single-Namespace
  • Multi-Namespace (static or dynamic)
  • All-Namespace

Data plane mode
Run the Engine container either as sidecar or sidecarless with Kubernetes Gateway API.

  • Sidecar
    Limited to 3 Pods
  • Kubernetes Gateway API
    Max replica count 2 per Gateway
  • Sidecar
    Unlimited Pods
  • Kubernetes Gateway API
    Unlimited replica count per Gateway

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

6 months

12 months

Training
Documentation, Running Example, Virtual labs, …

Yes

Yes

Support

Community Support

Premium Support

1)

The module auth for access control can be licensed in addition.

2)

Licensing of Airlock Microgateway is based on requests per calendar month.

Configure a license

  1. Request either a Community or Premium edition license through the web form:
    1. Request a community license
      A license will be sent automatically within minutes.
    2. Request a premium license
      Your sales partner will contact you for licensing.
  3. Check your inbox for the license key message and store the microgateway-license.txt file locally.
  4. Configure the Microgateway license.

Support plans

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: