Multiple supertokens instances in a single express application?

Question

Is it possible to add multiple supertoken instances in a single express application The documentation only mentions a single instance using supertokens init I m wanting to set up a multi tenant type of architecture with a single webserver and multiple cores

rp · Answer

Hey < Nightlight> this is not possible at the moment

rp · Answer

We are working on adding multi tenancy to the core after which this would be possible

Nightlight · Answer

Has the work on that already started And do you have an eta Q1 Q2 etc

Nightlight · Answer

My company is working on a rewrite of a lot of our infrastructure and was really hoping we d swap out Cognito for Supertokens but we really need the multi tenancy piece

rp · Answer

Sometime aroud q2

Nightlight · Answer

Maybe I can push the auth implementation for us till then Our 2 0 release is supposed to be sometime q2

rp · Answer

right We should have something by then

Nightlight · Answer

We re working on an open source project that will have the option of both single and multi tenant I suppose worst case scenario we use supertokens for the single tenant and something else for the multi tenancy

rp · Answer

If you are open to storing the all the users in the same user pool things could work today as well

rp · Answer

The idea here would be to change the email of the user to include their tenant ID like user+tenantId example com

Nightlight · Answer

I was looking at that conversation you had about that The main issue that you pointed out is that you need to know the tenant id to be able to look up and wouldn t be able to do a direct lookup by email

rp · Answer

right yea That s an issue indeed

rp · Answer

since it is a hack

rp · Answer

for proper multi tenant support you would have to wait until it s released on our end

Nightlight · Answer

I m not sure if we even need to be able to look up by email though without a tenant id I think everything we use currently we always know the tenant id

rp · Answer

right In that case things can work

Nightlight · Answer

Hm Maybe I just roll the hacky way for now just so I can get our front end integration with it then when multi tenancy support rolls out we ll switch to using that

rp · Answer

yup That works

rp · Answer

Btw just a disclaimer we are planning to add multi tenancy as a paid feature priced based on the number of tenants But we are open to negotiate and make exceptions based on the nature of your project especially since you said it s open source

Nightlight · Answer

How will the paid part of it be handled if we are self hosting Some sort of licensing

rp · Answer

correct

rp · Answer

a license key will be issued to you

rp · Answer

which can be fully air gapped as well

Nightlight · Answer

Do you know any of the details of that Like a monthly yearly lifetime

rp · Answer

We can make the license key however long in terms of its lifetime

rp · Answer

it s all quite flexible

Nightlight · Answer

Our profit model is going to be similar to that of Elasticsearch So we plan to release our software to the public and be fully open source with the restriction that people can t create competing services essentially

Nightlight · Answer

So while the software is open source we are still a for profit company

rp · Answer

Right There are things that can be done to aid this type of model The only one caveat is that the supertokens core part will not be fully open source cause of the multi tenant feature being used

rp · Answer

So if you are planning on distributing the supertokens core part as well then it might cause issues

rp · Answer

but if you keep the supertokens core part hosted by you and user s instances of your service are run by them then it could work

Nightlight · Answer

Users of our open source codebase will either have to self host or get supertokens hosting through you guys

Nightlight · Answer

The multi tenant part I don t believe will be in our open source codebase only the single tenant related code

rp · Answer

right So single tenant stuff is open source from supertokens side as well

Nightlight · Answer

That actually works out perfect As far as our open source code base goes we are really trying to push for only using other open source dependencies in our application Which is part of the reason we re moving away from Cognito

Nightlight · Answer

Thanks for your help and being so quick to respond

rp · Answer

sounds good Please feel free to reach out anytime for further questions