Multi-Tenancy: case studies over time¶

15 case studies across 9 events, oldest first. Generated by wiki find "multi-tenancy"; each moment links to where the talk discusses it.

Organizations: Adobe, Amazon Web Services, ClickHouse, Grafana Labs, Itaú Unibanco, Kolide, Spotify, Uber

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 (Seattle)¶

Using a Kubernetes Operator to Manage Application Tenancy in a B2B SaaS App - Mike Arpaia, Kolide — Kolide¶

Kolide describes using a Kubernetes operator to manage per-customer tenancy in its B2B SaaS application.

Towards Trading on Kubernetes: Operating Multi-Tenant and Se... - Andrew Kochut & Javier Diaz-Montes ¶

Describes operating multi-tenant, secure Kubernetes for trading workloads.

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021¶

Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes: How We Avoided Clusters Sprawl W... Dario Tranchitella & Maksim Fedotov ¶

Better Scalability & More Isolation? The Cortex “Shuffle Sharding” Story - Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs — Grafana Labs¶

Grafana Labs tells how shuffle sharding in Cortex improved scalability and tenant isolation.

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021¶

Scaling Kubeflow for Multi-tenancy at Spotify - Keshi Dai & Jonathan Jin, Spotify — Spotify¶

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022¶

Multi-Tenancy For Argo Workflows And Argo CD At Adobe - Srinivas Malladi, Adobe — Adobe¶

Building Multi-Tenant Routing And Scaling With Envoy - Yiming Peng, Amazon Web Services, Inc. — Amazon Web Services¶

AWS describes building multi-tenant routing and scaling with Envoy.

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023¶

Show Me the Metrics: How a Huge Bank Does Observability with Multi-Tenancy... - Inacio & Costa — Itaú Unibanco¶

A large bank describes running multi-tenant metrics observability at scale for its own teams.

How We Securely Scaled Multi-Tenancy with VCluster, Crossplane... Ilia Medvedev & Kostis Kapelonis ¶

Operate Multi-Tenancy Service Mesh with ArgoCD in Production - Lin Sun & Faseela K ¶

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024 - Salt Lake City¶

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026¶

8 Million Tasks Daily: Driving Efficiency in Multi-Tenant Data... JIanxiang Sun & Shuangkun Tian ¶

Reports on running 8 million tasks daily in a multi-tenant data platform and the efficiency gains achieved.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026¶

How To Break Multi-Tenancy Again and Again ...and What We Can Learn F... Lorin Lehawany & Sven Nobis ¶

When Multitenancy Goes Wrong: A Deep Dive Into Kcp’s First CVE - Marvin Beckers, ClickHouse — ClickHouse¶

ClickHouse's maintainer walks through kcp's first CVE, a multitenancy failure, and its lessons.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026¶

Don't Start With 500 Clusters: Patterns in Scaling Multi-Cluster Kubernetes… N. Bora & M. Morrison ¶

Speakers share patterns and lessons from scaling multi-cluster Kubernetes with Cluster API, arguing against starting with hundreds of clusters.

▶ 1:26 … If you have soft multi-tenancy requirements, then you know, we have our back, we have network policies, we have resource quotas, which
▶ 8:01 … And the last step was um tenancy. So, um our teams were using like namespaces as like a tenancy boundaries. So, we wanted to …
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Don't Start With 500 Clusters: Patterns in Scaling Multi-Cluster Kubernetes… N. Bora & M. Morrison (CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]), cited at 1:26, 8:01