Whitepaper
An Introduction to Kubernetes Multi-tenancy
Learn the whys and hows of Kubernetes multi-tenancy—key use cases, common challenges, and best practices.
In a multi-tenant Kubernetes architecture, multiple applications, services, workloads, users, or teams share a cluster’s resources. In this paper you will learn:
- Why and when your organization should consider using a multi-tenant Kubernetes architecture
- Issues and challenges that multi-tenancy can raise, including “noisy neighbors” and “nosy neighbors”
- Multi-tenant resource management and the use of quotas
- Soft and hard multi-tenancy: what they mean and how and when to use them
- Additional considerations for service providers
- When and how to use a multi-cluster strategy