Patent attributes
Embodiments include a multi-tenant cloud-based identity management system for a plurality of tenants. Embodiments include a global database providing a first set of resources to the plurality of tenants and a plurality of tenant databases, each tenant database providing a second set of resources to one of the plurality of tenants. Embodiments further include a plurality of resources accessible by the tenants and an automated upgrade framework for upgrading the global database and the tenant databases in response to an upgrade of a first release of the system to a second release of the system. For the automated upgrade framework, embodiments determine resource changes between the first release and the second release, generate an upgrade patch based on the resource changes and apply the upgrade patch to the global database.