Using Organizations

Note: Organizations is still under active development and requires a non-standard enterprise license to use. Do not use organizations on your production instance!

For more details, contact your account team.

Organizations allow you to run a Coder deployment with multiple platform teams, all with uniquely scoped templates, provisioners, users, groups, and workspaces.

Prerequisites

• Coder deployment with non-standard license with Organizations enabled (contact your account team)
• User with Owner role
• Coder CLI installed on local machine

Switch to the preview image and enable the experiment

To try the latest organizations features, switch to a preview image in your Helm chart and enable the experimental flag.

For example, with Kubernetes, set the following in your values.yaml:

coderd:
  image:
    repo: ghcr.io/coder/coder-preview
    tag: orgs-preview-aug-16
  env:
    - name: CODER_EXPERIMENTS
      value: multi-organization

See all preview images in GitHub. Preview images prefixed with main- expire after a week.

Then, upgrade your deployment:

helm upgrade coder coder-v2/coder -f values.yaml

The default organization

All Coder deployments start with one organization called Default.

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:

Guide: Your first organization

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.

Planned work

Organizations is under active development. The work is planned before organizations is generally available:

• View provisioner health via the Coder UI
• Custom Role support in Coder UI
• Per-organization quotas
• Improved visibility of organization-specific resources throughout the UI
• Sync OIDC claims to auto-assign users to organizations / roles + SCIM support

Support & Feedback

Contact your account team if you have any questions or feedback.