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## Overview
Many organizations implement *Vault as a Service* (or "VaaS"), providing centralized
management to a security or ops team while ensuring that separate teams within that
organization operate within self-contained environments known as "*tenants*."
Many organizations implement Vault as a "service", providing centralized
management for teams within an organization while ensuring that those teams
operate within isolated environments known as *tenants*.
There are two common challenges when implementing this architecture in Vault:
**Tenant Isolation**
Frequently teams within a VaaS environment require strong isolation from other
users in their policies, secrets, and sometimes even their own identity entities
and groups. Frequently tenant isolation is a result of regulations such as [GDPR](https://www.eugdpr.org/),
though it may be necessitated by corporate or organizational infosec requirements as
well.
users in their policies, secrets, and identitys. Tenant isolation is typically a
result of compliance regulations such as [GDPR](https://www.eugdpr.org/), though it may
be necessitated by corporate or organizational infosec requirements.
**Self-Management**
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overhead for teams. Given that tenants will likely have different policies and
request changes at a different rate, managing a multi-tenant environment can
become very difficult for a single team as the number of tenants within that
environment grow.
organization grow.
'Namespaces' is a set of features within Vault Enterprise that allows Vault
environments to support *Secure Multi-tenancy* (or *SMT*) within a single Vault Enterprise
environments to support *Secure Multi-tenancy* (or *SMT*) within a single Vault
infrastructure. Through namespaces, Vault administrators can support tenant isolation
for teams and individuals as well as empower those individuals to self-manage their
for teams and individuals as well as empower delegated administrators to manage their
own tenant environment.
## Architecture
Namespaces are isolated environments that functionally exist as "Vaults within a Vault."
They have separate login paths and support creating and managing data isolated to a namespace
including the following:
They have separate login paths and support creating and managing data isolated to their
namespace. This data includes the following:
- Secret Engine Mounts
- Policies
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Namespaces can also be configured to inherit all of this data from a higher *parent* namespace.
This simplifies the deployment of new namespaces, and can be combined with sentinel policies
to prescribe organization-wide infosec policies on tenants.
## Example Implementation
to prescribe organization-wide infosec policies on tenants.
Rather than rely on Vault system admins, namespaces can be managed by delegated admins who
can be prescribed administration rights for their namespace. These delegated admins can also
create their own child namespaces, thereby prescribing admin rights on a subordinate group
of delegate admins.
## Setup and Best Practices
A [deployment guide](/guides/operations/replication.html) is
available to help you get started, and contains examples on namespace architecture.
A [deployment guide](/guides/operations/multi-tenant.html) is available to help guide you
through the deployment and administration of namespaces, and contains examples on architecture
for using namespaces to implement SMT across your organization.
## API
Namespaces supports a full HTTP API. Please see the
[Vault Namespace API](/api/system/replication.html) for more
details.