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id: admin-api-tenants title: Managing Tenants sidebar_label: “Tenants” description: Learn how to manage tenants using Pulsar CLI and admin APIs.

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:::tip

This page only shows some frequently used operations.

• For the latest and complete information about Pulsar admin, including commands, flags, descriptions, and more, see Pulsar admin docs.

• For the latest and complete information about REST API, including parameters, responses, samples, and more, see {@inject: rest:REST:/} API doc.

• For the latest and complete information about Java admin API, including classes, methods, descriptions, and more, see Java admin API doc.

:::

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:version_reference@/pulsar-admin/tenants?id=list) subcommand.

```shell
pulsar-admin tenants list
```

Output:

```
my-tenant-1
my-tenant-2
```

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[](swagger:/admin/v2/TenantsBase_getTenants)

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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:version_reference@/pulsar-admin/tenants?id=create) subcommand:

```shell
pulsar-admin tenants create my-tenant
```

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

```shell
pulsar-admin tenants create my-tenant \
    --admin-roles role1,role2,role3 \
    --allowed-clusters cluster1
```

```shell
pulsar-admin tenants create my-tenant \
    -r role1 \
    -c cluster1
```

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[](swagger:/admin/v2/TenantsBase_createTenant)

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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:version_reference@/pulsar-admin/tenants?id=get) subcommand and specify the name of the tenant. Here's an example:

```shell
pulsar-admin tenants get my-tenant
```

```json
{
  "adminRoles": [
    "admin1",
    "admin2"
  ],
  "allowedClusters": [
    "cl1",
    "cl2"
  ]
}
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[](swagger:/admin/v2/TenantsBase_getTenantAdmin)

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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:version_reference@/pulsar-admin/tenants?id=delete) subcommand and specify the name of the tenant.

```shell
pulsar-admin tenants delete my-tenant
```

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[](swagger:/admin/v2/TenantsBase_deleteTenant)

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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:version_reference@/pulsar-admin/tenants?id=update) subcommand.

```shell
pulsar-admin tenants update my-tenant \
    --admin-roles role1,role2 \
    --allowed-clusters cluster1,cluster2
```

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[](swagger:/admin/v2/TenantsBase_updateTenant)

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

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