Multitenancy and Repositories

Contendo Server is designed with multitenancy in mind, allowing for the separation and management of data across different tenants. In Contendo Server, tenants are referred to as Domains. Content can be further grouped within a domain in storage units called Repositories.

Domains

A Domain represents an isolated environment within Contendo Server. Each domain has its own users, access control settings, and content storage, ensuring complete segregation between different clients or organizational units.

Each domain operates independently, preventing data leakage across domains. Users, groups, and access control are managed per domain. Users and groups with the same name across multiple domains are strictly separate.

Check Domain Management for details on creating a new domain as well as fetching, disabling or enabling existing ones.

Repositories

A Repository is the actual storage unit for objects and their metadata within a domain. Each domain may contain multiple repositories, depending on organizational needs and data structuring requirements.

A domain can have multiple repositories, but each repository belongs to only one domain. Different domains can have repositories with a shared name, but they are not the same repository and are strictly separated.

Repositories store all objects, including documents, folders, and relationships. Users and groups are defined on repository level - depending on access control a user or group can have access to a single, multiple or even all repositories in a domain.

Check Repository Management for information on creating a new repository as well as fetching details for repositories.