Editions

The editions at a glance

Airlock Microgateway is available in two editions:

Community edition

Premium edition

Purpose

Setups focused on reverse proxy use cases (e.g. Ingress NGINX replacement)

Enterprise setups

Features

Reverse proxy features

Licensed features

Throughput

Unlimited requests

Up to unlimited requests per month 1) (not enforced)

License

No license required

Available through your Airlock partner:
https://airlock.com/en/microgateway-premium

Costs

Free

According to license

Support

Community support

Airlock support

1)

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

 
Notice

Details on licensing terms and usage rights, including the right to use, redistribute, or resell Airlock products, are available on the Airlock Licenses page.

Community vs. Premium editions in detail

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

Functionality

Community edition

Premium edition

Kubernetes native integration
Operator and CRDs, hot-reload, Kubernetes Gateway API, Red Hat OpenShift Certification, ...

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, Post Quantum Cryptography algorithms, remote IP extraction, ...

Yes

Yes

Access control
JWT authentication, OIDC Relying Party, OAuth2 Token Exchange, MFA with OIDC (step-up authentication), token validation with JWKS or token introspection, identity propagation, client certificate authentication, …

No

Yes 1)

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

No

Yes 2)

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

Yes, selected features

  • Custom error pages globally
  • JA3 and JA4 fingerprint

Yes 2)

Denial-of-Service (DoS) protection
Limit request size, request frequency filter, ...

No

Yes 2)

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

No

Yes 2)

Encoding enforcement
Strictly enforcing UTF8.

No

Yes 2)

Session Management
Secure session handling, limit number of sessions per IP.

No

Yes 1) or 2)

Observability
Structured logs, metrics and traces.

Yes

Yes

Reporting dashboard
Reporting dashboards with pre-configured use cases.

Yes

Yes

Throughput
Number of requests.

Unlimited requests

  • Up to unlimited requests per month 3)
  • Not enforced

Gateway replica limit
Maximum number of Gateway replicas allowed per Gateway.

Unlimited replicas

Unlimited replicas

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

No license required

12 months

Training
Documentation, Running Example, Virtual labs, …

Yes

Yes

Support

Community support

See section Support plans.

Airlock support

See section Support plans.

1)

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

2)

The filter module for content security can be licensed in addition.

3)

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

Licensing

The Community Edition does not require a license. If you want to try premium features without contacting a sales partner, you can request an evaluation license.

Either request an evaluation or premium license

  1. Request an evaluation license
    A license will be sent automatically within minutes.
     

  2. The evaluation license provides access to all premium features, with the following limitations:

    • Throughput limited to 5 requests per second (enforced)
    • Maximum of 2 replicas per Gateway
    • Valid for 6 months
    • Community support only
  4. Request a premium license
    Your sales partner will contact you for licensing.
  5. Follow the installation guide.

Support plans

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

Description

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: