Organizations

Note: Organizations requires a Premium license. For more details, contact your account team.

Organizations can be used to segment and isolate resources inside a Coder deployment for different user groups or projects.

Example

Here is an example of how one could use organizations to run a Coder deployment with multiple platform teams, all with unique resources:

The default organization

All Coder deployments start with one organization called Coder.

To edit the organization details, navigate to Deployment -> Organizations in the top bar:

From there, you can manage the name, icon, description, users, and groups:

Additional organizations

Any additional organizations have unique admins, users, templates, provisioners, groups, and workspaces. Each organization must have at least one provisioner as the built-in provisioner only applies to the default organization.

You can configure organization/role/group sync from your identity provider to avoid manually assigning users to organizations.

Creating an organization

Prerequisites

• Coder v2.16+ deployment with Premium license with Organizations enabled (contact your account team) for more details.
• User with Owner role

1. Create the organization

Within the sidebar, click New organization to create an organization. In this example, we'll create the data-platform org.

From there, let's deploy a provisioner and template for this organization.

2. Deploy a provisioner

Provisioners are organization-scoped and are responsible for executing Terraform/OpenTofu to provision the infrastructure for workspaces and testing templates. Before creating templates, we must deploy at least one provisioner as the built-in provisioners are scoped to the default organization.

Using Coder CLI, run the following command to create a key that will be used to authenticate the provisioner:

coder provisioner keys create data-cluster-key --org data-platform
Successfully created provisioner key data-cluster! Save this authentication token, it will not be shown again.

< key omitted >

Next, start the provisioner with the key on your desired platform. In this example, we'll start it using the Coder CLI on a host with Docker. For instructions on using other platforms like Kubernetes, see our provisioner documentation.

export CODER_URL=https://<your-coder-url>
export CODER_PROVISIONER_DAEMON_KEY=<key>
coder provisionerd start --org <org-name>

3. Create a template

Once you've started a provisioner, you can create a template. You'll notice the "Create Template" screen now has an organization dropdown:

5. Add members

Navigate to Deployment->Organizations to add members to your organization. Once added, they will be able to see the organization-specific templates.

6. Create a workspace

Now, users in the data platform organization will see the templates related to their organization. Users can be in multiple organizations.

Beta

As of v2.16.0, Organizations is in beta. If you encounter any issues, please file an issue or contact your account team.