Multi-tenant isolation
ConceptProductSince version 0.3.0
Product guide: what the capability brings, for whom, its limits and the version that delivered it - no configuration syntax.
Developer side: Getting credentials; operations side: Wiring your identity provider, Setting quotas.
The tenant is an API's end customer: a company, a team, an account. Flexway reads it from a verified source and enforces it everywhere, not only in routing.
| Where | What is guaranteed |
|---|---|
| Identity | The tenant comes from a signed claim, an API key, a certificate or a trusted mesh; the value the client writes never reaches the upstream |
| Quotas and budgets | Counted per tenant: a tenant never spends another's quota |
| Cache | An authenticated response is cached per tenant and per person; isolation test on every PR |
| Asynchronous plane | A subscriber reads its tenant only; a channel can be bound to one person |
| Native Kafka | A virtual cluster per tenant; no other tenant's name, neither in an answer nor toward the broker; proven by mutation on every PR |
| Encryption | An encrypted field is bound to its tenant, topic and path: copied elsewhere, it does not decrypt |
| Console | An account bound to a tenant sees that tenant only; elsewhere, 403 |
Limit: the isolation is logical, inside a shared gateway; physical isolation means deploying one gateway per customer.