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Creating a new tenant

Basic tenant creation#

A new tenant can be created for an app using our backend SDK functions or a cURL command as shown below. If an appId is not explicitly specified, the tenant will be created in the "public" appId (the default app that is created when the SuperTokens core first starts).

import Multitenancy from "supertokens-node/recipe/multitenancy";

async function createNewTenant() {
    let resp = await Multitenancy.createOrUpdateTenant("customer1", {
        emailPasswordEnabled: true,
        thirdPartyEnabled: true,
        passwordlessEnabled: true
    });

    if (resp.createdNew) {
        // Tenant created successfully
    } else {
        // Existing tenant's config was modified.
    }
}
  • In the above, we are creating a new tenant with the id "customer1". We are also enabling the email password, third party and passwordless login for this tenant. You can also disable any of these by setting the corresponding field to false (which is also the default setting).

Providing additional configuration per tenant#

You can also configure a tenant to have different configurations as per the core's config.yaml (or docker env) variabls. Below is how you can specify the config, when creating or modifying a tenant:

import Multitenancy from "supertokens-node/recipe/multitenancy";

async function createNewTenant() {

    let resp = await Multitenancy.createOrUpdateTenant("customer1", {
        coreConfig: {
            "email_verification_token_lifetime": 7200000,
            "password_reset_token_lifetime": 3600000,
            "postgresql_connection_uri": "postgresql://localhost:5432/db2",
        }
    });

    if (resp.createdNew) {
        // new tenant was created
    } else {
        // existing tenant's config was modified.
    }
}

In the above example, we are setting different values for certain configs for customer1 tenant. All other configs are inherited from the base config (config.yaml file or docker env vars).

We even specify a postgresql_connection_uri config. This means that all the information related to this tenant (users, roles, metadata etc) will be saved in the db pointed to by the value of postgresql_connection_uri (A similar config exists for MySQL as well). This can be used to achieve data isolation on a tenant level. This config is not necessary and if not provided, the tenant's information will be stored in the db as specified in the core's config.yaml or docker env vars (it will still be a different user pool though).

Here is the list of full core config variables that can be configured, and below are the lists of variables depending on the database you use:

important

Some configs cannot be different across tenants - they must be the same within an app. In the above links, if a config has a comment saying DIFFERENT_ACROSS_TENANTS, then it can be changed for each tenant, else if it has DIFFERENT_ACROSS_APPS, then it must be the same for all tenants within an app.

If a config has neither of these, then it can only be set per core instance.

Once you have set the configs for a specific tenant, you can fetch the tenant info as shown below:

import Multitenancy from "supertokens-node/recipe/multitenancy";

async function getTenant(tenantId: string) {

    let resp = await Multitenancy.getTenant(tenantId);

    if (resp === undefined) {
        // tenant does not exist
    } else {
        let coreConfig = resp.coreConfig;

        let isEmailPasswordLoginEnabled = resp.emailPassword.enabled;
        let isThirdPartyLoginEnabled = resp.thirdParty.enabled;
        let isPasswordlessLoginEnabled = resp.passwordless.enabled;

        let configuredThirdPartyProviders = resp.thirdParty.providers;
    }
}

The returned coreConfig is the same as what we had set when creating / updating the tenant. The rest of the core configurations for this tenant are inherited from the app's (or the public tenant) config. The public tenant, for the public app inherits its configs from the config.yaml / docker env var values.

Next steps#

Checkout the "Setting up login for tenants" page for next steps in integrating multi tenancy.

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