Get started with multitenancy on OpenShift

This learning path is designed for anyone interested in quickly setting up a multitenant environment with Red Hat OpenShift. This learning path consists of introductory article explaining what multitenancy is, its benefits, and various aspects you need to know about a multitenant environment. The learning path also includes detailed, step-by-step tutorials for the different aspects of multitenancy listed below:

• Role-based access control to OpenShift projects
• Isolating network for tenants
• Isolating resources for tenants

Let's look more closely at what each piece contains.

Article: Introduction to Multitenancy on Red Hat OpenShift

This article introduces core concepts related to multitenancy, including:

• Defining multitenancy
• Benefits of mutitenancy
• Options to achieve multitenancy
• Configuring OpenShift containers for multitenancy on IBM Cloud

Read the article

Tutorial: Role-based access control

Upon completion of this tutorial, you will learn how to:

• Create users
• Create role bindings
• Impersonate user and deploy application
• Create and deploy the pod
• Switch to another user

Complete the tutorial

Tutorial: Secure your applications deployed on OpenShift using network isolation

Upon completion of this tutorial, you will learn how to:

• Create a project in OpenShift and deploy a web application that runs on Open Liberty using odo
• Configure multitenant isolation by using network policies for a project
• Test the multitenant mode configuration

Complete the tutorial

Tutorial: Secure your applications deployed on OpenShift using resource isolation

Upon completion of this tutorial, you will learn to:

• Observe the performance of two different applications when deployed in the same project
• Observe the performance of two different applications when deployed in two different projects
• Assign resource quotas (CPU, Memory) to the projects and again observe the performance of the applications

Complete the tutorial