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stage: enablement
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group: Tenant Scale
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description: 'Cells: Organizations'
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DISCLAIMER:
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This page may contain information related to upcoming products, features and
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functionality. It is important to note that the information presented is for
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informational purposes only, so please do not rely on the information for
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purchasing or planning purposes. Just like with all projects, the items
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mentioned on the page are subject to change or delay, and the development,
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release, and timing of any products, features, or functionality remain at the
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sole discretion of GitLab Inc.
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This document is a work-in-progress and represents a very early state of the
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Cells design. Significant aspects are not documented, though we expect to add
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them in the future. This is one possible architecture for Cells, and we intend to
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contrast this with alternatives before deciding which approach to implement.
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This documentation will be kept even if we decide not to implement this so that
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we can document the reasons for not choosing this approach.
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# Cells: Organizations
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One of the major designs of Cells architecture is strong isolation between Groups.
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Organizations as described by this blueprint provides a way to have plausible UX
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for joining together many Groups that are isolated from the rest of systems.
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## 1. Definition
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Cells do require that all groups and projects of a single organization can
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only be stored on a single Cell since a Cell can only access data that it holds locally
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and has very limited capabilities to read information from other Cells.
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Cells with Organizations do require strong isolation between organizations.
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It will have significant implications on various user-facing features,
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like Todos, dropdowns allowing to select projects, references to other issues
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or projects, or any other social functions present at GitLab. Today those functions
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were able to reference anything in the whole system. With the introduction of
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organizations such will be forbidden.
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This problem definition aims to answer effort and implications required to add
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strong isolation between organizations to the system. Including features affected
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and their data processing flow. The purpose is to ensure that our solution when
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implemented consistently avoids data leakage between organizations residing on
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a single Cell.
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## 2. Data flow
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## 3. Proposal
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## 4. Evaluation
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## 4.1. Pros
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## 4.2. Cons
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