Organizations

Every resource belongs to one Organization, and members act inside it. Each Organization has its own Projects, Servers, members, integrations and settings; nothing is shared between two of them.

What you can do

• Create a new Organization and become its owner.
• Switch between the Organizations you belong to, and choose which one you land in at sign-in.
• Rename an Organization, copy its id, or delete it.
• On the Hosted instance, pay for several Organizations from one Business plan.

Create an Organization

1. Open the switcher

   Open the Organization switcher at the top of the console and press New organization. The same button is on Settings > Organizations.

   cloudgate.octabyte.app/settings/organizations

   

2. Name it

   Give it a name and press Create Organization. You will be its owner, and it starts with its own members: only you. You stay in the Organization you are in.

Creating an Organization takes an owner or admin role in the one you are in.

Switch Organization and set a default

Use Switch Organization in the switcher, or Switch to it on a row in Settings > Organizations. Make default sets where you land at sign-in. Switching ends every shell and log open in the Dock.

Ownership

Every Organization has one owner, who can do everything, including delete it. The owner role cannot be transferred. An admin can do everything except delete the Organization. See Members and roles.

When an Organization is frozen

While frozen:

• Everything already running keeps running on your Servers and in your clouds.
• Nothing new starts: no Deployment, Cron run, backup, Uptime check, threshold or cleanup.
• Members can still sign in, see everything, pay, download configs and delete things.
• Bought Servers are the exception: they are deleted when the Organization lapses.

Paying again lifts a lapse; only Octabyte lifts a suspension.

Delete an Organization

Open Settings > Organizations and use Delete Organization in the danger zone, typing its name to confirm.

What you cannot do

Related pages

• Billing: plans, Attached Organizations and what a frozen Organization can do.
• Members and roles: invite people into an Organization.
• Self-hosting: one Organization without a license.
• Concepts: how Organizations, Projects and Environments fit together.
• Plans and prices and self-hosted Cloudgate.

Questions

How many Organizations can I have?

On the Hosted instance you can own one that pays for itself, and Business can pay for more. A self-hosted instance allows one unless it has an Enterprise license.

Can I hand an Organization to someone else?

No. The owner role is nontransferable. Add the other person as an admin, who can do everything except delete the Organization.

Does deleting an Organization delete my servers?

No. Cloudgate deletes its own records of everything in the Organization but does not touch the machines themselves.