Multitenancy support

[Amzar Shahrir]

Hi,  my team is planning to consider adopting Tinode to replace mongooseIM because of high maintenance cost.

I saw an old fork saying that multitenancy was one of the planned feature but on the latest version it was removed from "Planned" feature but I couldn't find any documentation about multitenancy support in Tinode. How is multitenancy support in Tinode?

For context, we serve a lot of customer and we would like to have shared contacts between domain, basically have different tenants aka user groups. Thanks!

[Gene]

Yes, we dropped the feature from our plans because there was no interest in it from our users. Tinode is pretty lightweight. VMs became cheap and Docker popular. It was more practical to just fire up a separate VM or even a docker container for each customer. 

[Amzar Shahrir]

Ah okay that makes sense. 

We'll attempt to see if we can just spin up multiple dockerised instances of it with Docker Compose.

Thanks for replying!

[Gene]

I would recommend to set up a single instance of nginx as a frontend, and a single MySQL or Postgres as a backend (there will be very light DB traffic).