Tenant isolation
Ensuring that data and workflows from one client cannot be accessed or affected by another in a multi-tenant environment. PURIST enforces tenant isolation through separate n8n instances, database schemas, and credential scopes.
Expert insight
Weak tenant isolation in a multi-tenant automation system, one client's workflow able to access another client's data due to a missing filter, is one of the most serious classes of bug a multi-client system can have, worth explicit, tested isolation checks rather than trusting that application logic alone will always apply the right filter.
In a real workflow
Each client has separate credentials and data tables, so one client can never see another’s data.
Common mistakes
- Shared credentials across tenants.
- Logs mixing tenants’ data.
Complexity level
Technical term used in production automation systems.
Related terms
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