Multi-Tenant Output Cache Policy

🚀 ASP.NET Core Output Cache for MultiTenancy Services

In the previous post, I showed how to use the ASP.NET Core output cache. I mentioned that it is not sutible for multi-tenancy services (especially invalidating the cache for tenant) and that I had a solution for that in mind.

So here it is 🙋‍♂️.

The key is to create your own custom cache policy.

Implement IOutputCachePolicy. In the CacheRequestAsync method, resolve tenantId and create new tags based on it.

Register your policy, define tags and use it in your endpoints.

When you want to invalidate cache for tenant, call EvictByTagAsync with tag based on tenantId.

You can also simply it all with creating own extension method for IOutputCacheStore and OutputCacheOptions.

Note: if you do not have tenantId in the path, you will need to modify CacheVaryByRules to use other values (e.g. header, query string, etc.)

Full code is available on GitHub.