Cartridges in a Multi-Tenant Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) System Implemented in a Cloud Computing Environment

A system, comprising:

• a memory;
• a processing device operatively coupled to the memory, wherein the processing device is to:
• maintain a repository of a plurality of packages that provide functionality for multi-tenant applications executed by the node, each package of the plurality of packages comprised of a software and a configuration information specifying a plurality of hooks;
• receive a request to configure a first package from the plurality of packages, wherein the first package is to provide functionality for one of the multi-tenant applications executed by the node;
• establish a container to provide process space for the functionality of the first package;
• call a configure hook from the plurality of hooks specified in the configuration information of the first package;
• and
• in response to calling the configure hook, embed an instance of the software of the first package in the container, the instance of the software of the first package copied from the repository of the plurality of packages.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including instructions that, when accessed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

• maintaining, by the processing device of a node, a repository of a plurality of packages that provide functionality for multi-tenant applications executed by the node, each package of the plurality of packages comprised of a software and a configuration information specifying a plurality of hooks;
• receiving, by the node, a request to configure a first package from the plurality of packages, wherein the first package is to provide functionality for one of the multi-tenant applications executed by the node;
• establishing, by the node, a container to provide process space for the functionality of the first package;
• calling, by the node, a configure hook from the plurality of hooks specified in the configuration information of the first package;
• and
• in response to calling the configure hook, embedding, by the node, an instance of the software of the first package in the container, the instance of the software of the first package copied from the repository of the plurality of packages.