Orgs on Layer5 Documentation

Organization Management

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This guide covers creating new organizations, editing their details, inviting members, and deleting organizations when necessary.

Permissions Required

Operations described on this page for managing your Organization typically require Organization Administrator or similar administrative roles. To understand the specific roles needed for each action, please refer to the Default Permissions reference.

Creating an Organization 🔗

An Organization provides a way to structure your teams, users, and resource access for different projects or initiatives.

Default Organization Roles

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Default Organization Roles

Organization Administrators 🔗

What is the purpose of this role?

Administration of an organization (for each organization for which the user has this role assigned)

Who can assign this role?

The Organization Owner

When this role first assigned?

Creation of new organization or User Account creation

How many instances of these roles?

Navigating Organizations

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This guide explains how to switch between organizations in Layer5 Cloud and describes the order of precedence that determines your active organization context.

Understanding Organization Context 🔗

When you work in Layer5 Cloud, your current organization context determines:

Which resources you can view (designs, environments, connections, workspaces)
Where new resources are created when you add them
What permissions and access levels apply to your actions

Organization-Scoped Experience

An organization session scopes the UI, meaning all queries and resources displayed are only from the selected organization. Any new designs, environments, or other resources you create are automatically placed in the currently selected organization.

Order of Precedence for Organization Settings 🔗

Layer5 Cloud uses the following order of precedence to determine your active organization context:

Organizations

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Organizations are the basic unit of multi-tenancy inside of Layer5 Cloud. Organizations can have any number of teams. Teams can have any number of users. Users can belong to any number of teams. Users may belong to any number of organizations.

Outside of grouping users together, teams offer control access to workspaces and to workspace resources such as environments and managed and unmanaged connections