Akeyless SaaS Core Services

The Akeyless Gateway is a stateless Docker container, provided as a standalone or as a cluster. To function correctly, it requires public network connectivity to the Akeyless SaaS core services (see the table below).

A basic Gateway deployment requires a server with a Docker engine installed. You may download the latest Docker engine on Docker website. You'll need public network access enabled on port 443 to pull a Docker image from the hub.docker.com.

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Tenant Environments

Accounts that were created on specific environments should modify the services endpoints according to the relevant environments. e.g. for eu https://vault.eu.akeyless.io etc.

Available explicit tenates are: us,eu .

The following table describes the main functionality of Akeyless microservices in the global environment:

Service

IP

Port

Description

52.223.11.194, 35.71.185.167, 52.223.35.208, 35.71.147.131, 15.197.228.204, 3.33.247.128

443

Akeyless SaaS platform

52.223.11.194, 35.71.185.167, 52.223.35.208, 35.71.147.131, 15.197.228.204, 3.33.247.128

443

User Account Management (UAM), managing user accounts, items, and roles

52.223.11.194, 35.71.185.167, 52.223.35.208, 35.71.147.131, 15.197.228.204, 3.33.247.128

443

Akeyless Authentication service

18.189.176.104

443

Relevant only for Certificate Based Auth

52.223.11.194, 35.71.185.167, 52.223.35.208, 35.71.147.131, 15.197.228.204, 3.33.247.128

443

Audit log main service, enables log forwarding from GW & Bastion

52.223.11.194, 35.71.185.167

443

Billing Infrastructure Service (BIS)

52.223.11.194, 35.71.185.167, 52.223.35.208, 35.71.147.131, 15.197.228.204, 3.33.247.128

443

Main service to sync gateways instances, and connections with Akeyless SaaS

  • *MQ** : amqps://mq.akeyless.io

52.223.11.194, 35.71.185.167

5671

Message queue between Akeyless micro-services

52.223.11.194, 35.71.185.167, 52.223.35.208, 35.71.147.131, 15.197.228.204, 3.33.247.128, 34.120.160.242

443

Key Fragments Services, enabling full DFC encryption

15.197.223.248, 3.33.244.138

443

  • *Optional** Public Gateway rest API v1\v2

15.197.223.248, 3.33.244.138

443

  • *Optional** Public HVP endpoint
  • *Logs** : tcp://log.akeyless.io:9997 tcp://log.akeyless.io:9443

35.192.171.171

9997, 9443

GW logs, mainly to be reflected during failure scenarios

https://akeyless-cli.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com

N\A

443

S3 bucket to download & update Akeyless CLI versions

https://akeylessservices.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com

N\A

443

S3 bucket to download & update Akeyless official binaries. e.g. Gateway

https://artifacts.site2.akeyless.io

34.149.100.205

443

  • *Optional** Akeyless official artifacts endpoint. Relevant when working with whitelisted IP range
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Note

When using proxy services, you can use https://sqs.us-east-2.amazonaws.com instead of classic MQ services. In case you are not working with proxy serivce, and still want to utilize SQS insted of classic MQ , set your Gateway deployment with the SQS_NO_PROXY="true" environment variable.

Working without MQ Connection

If your organization's policies restrict non-web ports, it's important to understand the potential implications of blocking the MQ connection for your Akeyless setup:

  • Cross Gateway Access: The MQ service enables retrieving Gateways secrets and objects (i.e. Dynamic/Rotated Secrets, Classic Keys, etc.) across different Gateways and the Akeyless SaaS console. If MQ is blocked, you can still retrieve those secrets directly from their own Gateway. However, requests from other Gateways or the SaaS console will not be processed.
  • Operational Adjustments: Without the MQ service, you will need to ensure you are working directly with the correct Gateway for each relevant item. This may require additional manual oversight and adjustments compared to a setup with MQ enabled.
  • Centralized Management: The MQ service allows for centralized management, enabling you to perform all operations from the SaaS console. If MQ is blocked, this convenience will not be available, and you will need to interact directly with individual Gateways.
  • Event Forwarding relies on the MQ service for publishing event messages to the Gateway. Blocking the MQ connection will prevent event forwarding from working.

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