This example is for a single-tenant application deployed to provide multi-tenancy using Kubernetes Namespaces and Ingress. It expects the following requirements:
- Single tenant application, in a single container image
- Each instance of the application is logically separated from the others
- Each instance of the application is publicly available once the deployment is complete
This example contains a bash script and Helm chart for deploying a single-tenant application as a multi-tenant environemnt. For this example, I use kuard because it's easy to see which container the application is routing to.
To use, you must first have an Ingress Controller installed. For example:
helm install stable/nginx-ingress --namespace kube-system
This uses my personal domain multi-tenant.lastcoolnameleft.com
; however, you can substitute your own domain and then modify your /etc/hosts
file to make the $TENANT.$YOUR-DOMAIN routable.
Adding a tenant is simply running deploy_tenant.sh
with the name of the new tenant.
This will copy a templated Helm Values file and create a new values file for the tenant:
- Create new Namespace
- Create a Deployment inside the Namespace
- Create a Service (Type=ClusterIP) which points to the deployment
- Create a Ingress Rule inside the Namespace (which points to the service)
./deploy_tenant.sh lastcoolnameleft
After the new tenant Helm chart has been deployed, you can go to the URL at $TENANT.$YOUR-DOMAIN
. Make sure you have DNS setup to point to the public IP address.