Packaging

Editions

One codebase, three tiers. Features are documented once and marked with badges showing which edition they require.

Three-Tier Offering

Community

Zilla CE

Community and self-managed gateway runtime. Free to deploy and run under the Aklivity Community License.

• ✓ Kafka Gateway: full protocol support
• ✓ AI Gateway: MCP server/proxy, tool routing, JWT auth
• ✓ AsyncAPI & OpenAPI spec-driven config
• ✓ JWT guards, TLS, schema validation
• ✓ Prometheus, OTLP exporters
• ✓ Kubernetes & Helm support

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Plus

Zilla Plus

Commercial Gateway edition for teams that need enterprise capabilities and supported production deployments.

• ✓ Everything in Community
• ✓ Secure Public & Private Kafka Access
• ✓ Virtual Kafka Clusters
• ✓ AWS MSK, Confluent Cloud, Redpanda
• ✓ AI Gateway: distributed stores, OAuth token exchange, CloudWatch/Syslog export
• ✓ Commercial support SLA
• + Console available as paid add-on

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Enterprise

Zilla Plus + Zilla Console

Full enterprise package combining the Gateway runtime with the Console management plane for governance, catalog, and self-service.

• ✓ Everything in Plus
• ✓ Zilla Console included
• ✓ API and Data product catalog
• ✓ Self-service developer portal
• ✓ Governance, audit, RBAC
• ✓ Enterprise support workflows

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How Features Are Documented

Features are documented once. Badges on pages and sidebar entries show when a feature requires a specific edition.

Badge	Meaning
Community	Included in Community
Plus	Requires Plus
Enterprise	Requires Enterprise (Plus + Console)

Learn More

• Capability Matrix — full feature-by-feature comparison across all three tiers
• Licensing — license terms for each edition