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Multi-Tenant Considerations

As with almost any software, things get more difficult as you scale in number and size. In the previous chapter, we looked at the most important aspects related to the architecture of an OpenShift cluster. In this chapter, we are going to cover some things you should understand when working with multiple environments on one or more clusters.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • What is multitenancy?
  • Handling multiple tenants
  • Multitenancy on OpenShift
  • Multi-tenant strategies

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: ...

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