Multi-Tenancy

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Multi-Tenancy
Restrict Access to Kafka Resources by User Role
Introduction
Multi-Tenancy allows you to configure kPow to restrict visibility of Kafka resources.
See the article How to manage Kafka visibility with Multi-Tenancy for an overview.
About Tenants
A tenant restricts the set of Kafka resources that are accessible to a user role from all the resources available to kPow. A user role may be assigned multiple tenants.
When operating within a tenant a user can only see resources included by that tenant, they will also see a fully consistent synthetic cluster-view of their aggregated resources. The overall user experience is simply of a restricted set of Kafka resources as if they were truly the only resources in the system.
Tenancy restricts more that visibility, a user can also only create resources valid to their tenant.
Tenant configuration is defined within your Role Based Access Configuration YAML file.
A tenant can:
Include or exclude specific topics or topic prefixes, e.g. tx-topic, tx-top*
Include or exclude specific groups or group prefixes, e.g. tx-group, tx-grou*
Include or exclude specific resources, e.g Kafka clusters, Schema registries, or Connect clusters
Be assigned to one or many user roles
Inferred Resources
Most resources are evaluated atomically as included or excluded.
Where a group is included, any topics that group consumes from are automatically included. This is in order to keep the synthetic cluster-view consistent. These resources are called inferred resources.
Resource Evaluation
A tenant determines what resources are visible with the following logic:
Initially, all resources are implicitly excluded.
Explicitly included resources are added.
Inferred resources are added.
Exclusions are applied last.
Multi-Tenancy Use Cases
The primary use for multi-tenancy is to provide different views of Kafka resources to different teams within your organisation.
Consider a kPow that is connected to three Kafka Clusters (Dev, UAT, Prod), each having 200 topics and 200 groups, two Connect installations and one Schema Registry. You can create tenants that:
Contains only Kafka resources connected to or within Dev and UAT (or any combination of clusters)
Contains only specific topics or groups, or matches them with a prefix. E.g my-topic or my-grou*
Includes or excludes Connect or Schema resource in their entirety (more granular control shortly)
Any combination of the above.
The secondary use is to exclude groups and topics of no interest to your organisation.
For example, kPow provides two default tenants when you have none specifically configured: 
Global: All Kafka resources
kPow Hidden: All Kafka resources with kPow internal groups and topics excluded
Configuration
Within your RBAC yaml configuration file you can specify a top-level tenants key:
This configuration matches the default tenants that kPow provides if you have none configured.
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tenants:
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  - name: "Global"
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    description: "All configured Kafka resources."
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    resources:
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      - include:
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          - [ "*" ]
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    roles:
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      - "*"
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  - name: "kPow Hidden"
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    description: "All configured Kafka resources except internal kPow resources and __consumer_offsets."
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    resources:
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      - include:
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          - [ "*" ]    
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      - exclude:
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          - [ "cluster", "*", "topic", "oprtr*" ]
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          - [ "cluster", "*", "topic", "__oprtr*" ]
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          - [ "cluster", "*", "topic", "__consumer_offsets" ]
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          - [ "cluster", "*", "group", "oprtr*" ]
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    roles:
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      - "*"
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Fields
Each tenant is configured with a name, description, resources, and roles.
name
Key
Required
Type
Description
name
Y
String
The name of the tenant.
The name field will be the assigned name of the tenant used within kPow's UI. It must be unique.
description
Key
Required
Type
Description
description
N
String
The description of the tenant.
The optional description field will be used within kPow's UI as a description when switching tenants. 
resources
Key
Required
Type
Description
resources
Y
List
A list of resources either included or excluded for this tenant.
The resources field defines which resources are either included or excluded for this tenant.
Each item in the list is a map of either include: [resource...] or exclude: [resouce...] 
Where the resource refers to the path of the object you wish to include/exclude. 
For example: ["cluster",  "*", "topic", "tx_*"]refers to any topic matching tx_*for any Kafka cluster defined in kPow.
roles
Key
Required
Type
Description
roles
Y
List
The list of roles assigned to this tenant.
The roles field describes which roles (specified by your auth provider) are assigned to this tenant.
For more details about resources refer to the RBAC documentation. 
User Experience
kPow users with a single tenant are automatically entered into that tenant on session start.
kPow users with multiple tenants have the option of choosing and switching tenant:
Once a tenant is selected the user the chooses a cluster (if multi-cluster is configured)
A user can switch tenants at any time by selecting the top-left user context menu
Once a tenant is selected the user is presented an internally consistent view of a synthetic set of Kafka resources that matches the tenant exactly.
Here is an example of the Cluster view in two tenants in our demo environment.
Each tenant provides a different synthetic view of the Kafka resources configured with kPow.
Global Tenant
This tenant has 230 topics, 3.9GB replica disk and is receiving 762 writes/s
Transaction Tenant
This tenant has 200 topics, 86.8MB replica disk and is receiving 1.75 writes/s.
It looks strikingly different because tx-* topics are generated event topics in our demo environment.
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