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# Setting Up Kafka Multi-Tenancy

**[Doordash](https://daily.dev/sources/doordash)** · 7 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

DoorDash has implemented a multi-tenancy awareness system for both Kafka producers and consumers that makes the production environment more efficient and developer-friendly for testing new features and patches. They achieve data isolation in multi-tenancy by tagging messages with distinct tenant information using the OpenTelemetry framework. Changes were made to Kafka producer and consumer clients to support multi-tenancy.

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Tags: [#kafka](https://daily.dev/tags/kafka), [#microservices](https://daily.dev/tags/microservices), [#multi-tenancy](https://daily.dev/tags/multi-tenancy)

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