Patent attributes
Embodiments described herein are generally directed to a cloud-native approach to software license enforcement in a container orchestration system. According to an example, information indicative of a number of sets of containers that are making use of one or more components of an application is received. The application is licensed by the tenant and the sets of containers are running within a namespace of the tenant within a cluster of a container orchestration system. Overuse of the application by the tenant is determined based on whether the number exceeds a licensing constraint for the application specified within an Application Programming Interface (API) object of the container orchestration system corresponding to the application. Responsive to a determination that the application is being overused by the tenant, the tenant is caused to be notified regarding the overuse.
