Monitoring license constraints in a container orchestration system

A method comprising:

• receiving, by a processing resource running a licensing server pod associated with an application within a namespace of a tenant within a cluster of a container orchestration system, from an Application Programming Interface (API) server, information indicative of a number of service pods that are making use of one or more components of the application, wherein the application is licensed by the tenant and the service pods are running within the namespace, and wherein the information comprises the number of API object mounts of an API object of the container orchestration system corresponding to the application, the API object comprising a license corresponding to the application;
• determining, by the processing resource, overuse of the application by the tenant based on whether the number exceeds a licensing constraint for the application specified within the API object of the container orchestration system corresponding to the application;
• and
• responsive to a result of said determining being affirmative, causing, by the processing resource, the tenant to be notified regarding the overuse.

A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions that when executed by a processing resource of a computer system cause the processing resource to:

• receive, from an Application Programming Interface (API) server, information indicative of a number of sets of containers that are making use of one or more components of an application, wherein the application is licensed by a tenant and the sets of containers are running within a namespace of the tenant within a cluster of a container orchestration system, and wherein the information comprises the number of API object mounts of an API object of the container orchestration system corresponding to the application, the API object comprising a license corresponding to the application;
• determine overuse of the application by the tenant based on whether the number exceeds a licensing constraint for the application specified within the API object of the container orchestration system corresponding to the application;
• and
• responsive to a determination that the application is being overused by the tenant, causing the tenant to be notified regarding the overuse.