Tenants

In Nautobot, tenants represent distinct groupings of resources, commonly used for administrative segmentation within an organization. They are typically utilized to symbolize individual customers or internal departments. A wide range of objects within Nautobot can be assigned to tenants, including locations, racks, rack reservations, devices, VRFs, prefixes, IP addresses, VLANs, circuits, clusters, and virtual machines. This assignment is crucial for indicating the ownership or association of a specific object with a particular tenant, thereby organizing the network resources efficiently.

For instance, if a rack is exclusively serving a specific customer, it would be assigned to the tenant instance representing that customer. In a service provider scenario, a container network may be split into many child subnets, each of which is assigned to a particular tenant that relates to a customer environment.

Figure 2.20 – Viewing a tenant definition...