Multi-tenancy in
Felipe Montoya
https://edunext.co
using MS Azure
About me
In the community since 2013
I talk about multi-tenancy a lot
One of the earliest open source contributors
Co founder of eduNEXT
Latests projects
https://future-proof.net/
https://azure-academy.com/
https://learning.produhktivx.com/
https://od.sureskills.com/
https://microsoft.netecdigital.com/
https://elearning.mdl.edu.mm/
Warning: Not very deep
About Multitenancy
What
Site Configuration
- Json blob for storing config variables
- Independent comp theming
- Domain based
- Separation per org
Microsites
DEPR-12
Why
Optimization
Features
- Cost effectiveness
- Sharing upgrade effort
- Maintenance
- Launch velocity
- Org separation
- Multiple initiatives
Challenges
Management
- Feature support is limited
- Site administration
Tech
- Multiple domain SSL termination
- Access control
- Data separation
About Azure
Why
- Your cloud is already on azure
- Microsoft partnership
- Very reliable and secure cloud with many corporate integrations
- Vendetta against Jeff Bezos
Azure &
Bad news
- Lack of S3 is challenging (Azure-Storage)
- Limited support, mostly community based
- Edge cases (e.g. Sandbox)
Good news
- Devops work on hosting independence
- Good network of service providers
Conclusion
Questions?
Lets talk
felipe.montoya@edunext.co
github.com/felipemontoya
Thank you
Multitenancy in open edX using MS Azure
By Felipe Montoya
Multitenancy in open edX using MS Azure
Lightning talk at the 2019 Open edX conference in San Diego, California
