Description

Are you building SaaS app? If you are, you are probably looking to add multi tenancy to your apps.
This book will teach you about the various multi tenancy architectures, the trade offs involved, and how to build a multi tenant app the right way.
Table of Contents:
Introduction to multi tenant applications

   What are multi tenant apps?
   The structure of this book
   The various approached to multi tenancy

Shared database with shared schema

   The base single-tenant app
   Adding multi tenancy to models
   Identifying tenants
   Extracting tenant from request
   A detour to /etc/hosts
   Using tenant_from_request in the views
   Isolating the admin

Shared database with isolated schema

   Limitations of shared schema and our current method
   What are database schemas?
   Managing database migrations
   Tenant separation in views
   A middleware to set schemas
   Beyond the request-response cycle

Isolated database with a shared app server

   Multiple database support in Django
   Database routing in Django
   Per tenant database routing using middlewares
   Outside the request response cycle

Completely isolated tenants using Docker

   Tools we will use
   Building a docker image from our app code
   Using docker-compose to run multi container, multi-tenant apps
   The final docker-compose.yaml

Tying it all together

   Launching new tenants
   A comparison of trade-offs of various methods
   What method should I use?

Third party apps

   Open source Django multi tenancy apps
   A tour of django-tenant-schemas