Cloud foundry tenants - what?

Question

I reads some docs on cloud foundry and I didnt find the term tenants , my question is if Org is a tenants in cloud foundry term? if not what is the equivalent?

Answer 1

It could be done that way. You could setup your CF install such that one Org is one tenant. Orgs are scoped such that resources in the org are isolated and not visible unless you're a part of that org.

It's not strictly required to have one org to one tenant. Orgs & spaces are just ways to group and limit access to applications and services on CF. You can use them in a number of different ways. For example, you could have development & production orgs for the same tenant.

In my experience, it's more common to see each tenant (company, organization in company, billing unit, etc..) as the org and then spaces used to subdivide the org though. For example, dev & prod spaces.

When contemplating your choices here, I would suggest that you look at the breakdown of org & space roles. If you understand what roles are present and how those can be used to control access, then you'll be able to make the best decisions about how to use orgs & spaces in your environment.

https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/concepts/roles.html#roles