Data privacy and security for tenants

OpenStack also provides multitenancy, which means you can have multiple tenants in an OpenStack Cloud. Each tenant has their own set of resources as per their requirement. All of these tenants have their own separate identities in the cloud. So here, data privacy and security is of the utmost importance.

Now, let's understand data privacy concerns for a multitenancy environment and its mitigation:

• The first concern is related to data privacy, that is, data residency. It says data privacy and isolation is a crucial point, which works as a barrier in the way of cloud adoption. There are many OpenStack services, which record tenant data and metadata. Tenant data includes objects stored in object storage, data stored on ephemeral storage, data stored on block storage, snapshots, public keys, and so on. Metadata includes details such as name, IP, compute information, and size of storage. Here, being a cloud operator, one must take care of all data privacy issues...