What is multitenancy?
Multitenancy is the ability to provide services for multiple users or groups (also known as tenants) using a single platform instance. A platform architecture can be designed to be single- or multi-tenant:
- In a single-tenant platform architecture, there is no isolation within an instance of the platform. This means that there is no separation in an instance and that, as such, there is no way to isolate objects for users or groups. In this case, to achieve multitenancy, you need to provision a separate platform instance for every tenant.
- In a multi-tenant platform architecture, it is possible to isolate objects and data between different tenants. Therefore, you can protect each tenant's data and objects, thus providing enough privacy and security, even by using a single platform instance.
Depending on the architectural design and how OpenShift is used, you can have both types of platforms (single- or multi-tenant). In this chapter, you will...
