Building Multi Tenant Applications with Django

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

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page