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id: admin-api-tenants title: Managing Tenants sidebar_label: “Tenants” original_id: admin-api-tenants

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Tenants, like namespaces, can be managed using the admin API. There are currently two configurable aspects of tenants:

• Admin roles
• Allowed clusters

Tenant resources

List

You can list all of the tenants associated with an instance.

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Use the [`list`](reference-pulsar-admin.md#tenants-list) subcommand.

```shell

$ pulsar-admin tenants list
my-tenant-1
my-tenant-2

```

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{@inject: endpoint|GET|/admin/v2/tenants|operation/getTenants?version=@pulsar:version_number@}

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```java

admin.tenants().getTenants();

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Create

You can create a new tenant.

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Use the [`create`](reference-pulsar-admin.md#tenants-create) subcommand:

```shell

$ pulsar-admin tenants create my-tenant

```

When creating a tenant, you can assign admin roles using the `-r`/`--admin-roles` flag. You can specify multiple roles as a comma-separated list. Here are some examples:

```shell

$ pulsar-admin tenants create my-tenant \
  --admin-roles role1,role2,role3

$ pulsar-admin tenants create my-tenant \
  -r role1

```

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{@inject: endpoint|POST|/admin/v2/tenants/:tenant|operation/createTenant?version=@pulsar:version_number@}

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```java

admin.tenants().createTenant(tenantName, tenantInfo);

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Get configuration

You can fetch the configuration for an existing tenant at any time.

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Use the [`get`](reference-pulsar-admin.md#tenants-get) subcommand and specify the name of the tenant. Here's an example:

```shell

$ pulsar-admin tenants get my-tenant
{
  "adminRoles": [
    "admin1",
    "admin2"
  ],
  "allowedClusters": [
    "cl1",
    "cl2"
  ]
}

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{@inject: endpoint|GET|/admin/v2/tenants/:cluster|operation/getTenant?version=@pulsar:version_number@}

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```java

admin.tenants().getTenantInfo(tenantName);

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Delete

Tenants can be deleted from a Pulsar instance.

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Use the [`delete`](reference-pulsar-admin.md#tenants-delete) subcommand and specify the name of the tenant.

```shell

$ pulsar-admin tenants delete my-tenant

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{@inject: endpoint|DELETE|/admin/v2/tenants/:cluster|operation/deleteTenant?version=@pulsar:version_number@}

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```java

admin.Tenants().deleteTenant(tenantName);

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Update

You can update a tenant's configuration.

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Use the [`update`](reference-pulsar-admin.md#tenants-update) subcommand.

```shell

$ pulsar-admin tenants update my-tenant

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```java

admin.tenants().updateTenant(tenantName, tenantInfo);

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