Coder powers secure, scalable development across key industries — automotive, finance, government, and technology — enabling faster builds, tighter compliance, and seamless AI adoption in enterprise-grade cloud environments.
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.
