Multi-Tenancy
The Axelor Open Platform v5 has added multi-tenancy support. The term multi-tenancy refers to a software architecture in which a single instance of software runs on a server and serves multiple tenants. A tenant is a group of users who share common access with specific privileges to the software instance.
So now, a single instance of Axelor app can serve multiple tenants (users, companies etc).
Configuration
The default multi-tenancy implementation uses multiple databases per tenant and requires
configuration from application.properties.
The database configuration keys with format db.<tenant-id>.<key> is used to configure
database connections.
# enable multi-tenancy
application.multi_tenancy = true (1)
db.default.visible = false (2)
db.default.driver = org.postgresql.Driver
db.default.ddl = update (3)
db.default.url = jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/open-platform-demo-db
db.default.user = axelor
db.default.password =
db.db1.name = DB1 (4)
db.db1.hosts = host1,host1:8080 (5)
db.db1.roles = admin (6)
db.db1.driver = org.postgresql.Driver
db.db1.url = jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/open-platform-demo-db1
db.db1.user = axelor
db.db1.password =
db.db2.name = DB2
db.db2.hosts = host1,host1:8080
db.db2.driver = org.postgresql.Driver
db.db2.url = jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/open-platform-demo-db2
db.db2.user = axelor
db.db2.password =
db.db3.name = DB3
db.db3.hosts = host1,host1:8080,host2,host2:8080
db.db3.driver = org.postgresql.Driver
db.db3.url = jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/open-platform-demo-db3
db.db3.user = axelor
db.db3.password =| 1 | required to enable multi-tenancy feature |
| 2 | the default database should be invisible as it’s a fallback |
| 3 | only default database supports DDL operations, schema for other tenants should be created manually |
| 4 | display name of the tenant |
| 5 | roles filter, only users with those roles can access these tenants |
| 6 | host name based filter, the tenant is accessible from those hosts only |
The default tenant is required and will be used in case the app is unable to resolve tenant id for some reason. So the default tenant should not be used for anything but demo/fallback purpose.
Customization
We can override this default implementation by providing custom implementation of these two interfaces:
-
com.axelor.db.tenants.TenantConfig- an interface to provide tenant connection config values -
com.axelor.db.tenants.TenantConfigProvider- an interface to obtain TenantConfig, may be from external resource
The TenantConfigProvider defines following methods to implement:
-
TenantConfig find(String tenantId)- find a TenantConfig instance for the given tenant id -
List<TenantConfig> findAll(String host)- find all the TenantConfig for the given hostname -
boolean hasAccess(User user, TenantConfig config)- check whether the given authenticated user can use the tenant
The custom implementation should be integrated from application module like this:
public class DemoModule extends AxelorModule {
@Override
protected void configure() {
bind(TenantConfigProvider.class).to(MyTenantConfigProvider.class);
}
}It’s up to the MyTenantConfigProvider to decide how to resolve tenants (may be using jdbc connection
to some external database).