Create organizations and organizational units

Organizations and organizational units help you group projects and apply common settings like authentication and access.

When you sign up for Aiven, an organization is automatically created for you. You can add organizational units in your organization to group related projects and create custom hierarchical organizations.

Create an organizational unit

You can create an organizational unit within an organization to group your projects by, for example, your departments or environments. To create an organizational unit in the Aiven Console:

1. In the organization, click Admin.
2. In the Organizational units section, click Create organizational unit.
3. Enter a name for the unit.
4. Optional: Select any projects to assign to this organizational unit. You can search for projects by name.
5. Click Create organizational unit.

Your organizational unit is shown in the list. Click the unit name to view and manage its projects.

note

Only one level of nesting is supported. This means that organizational units cannot be created within other units.

Create an organization

important

You can only verify a domain in one organization, meaning you can't set up SAML authentication, user provisiong with SCIM, or managed users for the same domain in another organization. Additionally, support and commitment contracts cannot be shared across organizations.

When you create another organization you also have to manually configure all settings for the new organization such as:

• billing groups
• authentication policies
• users and groups
• roles and permissions

To create an organization in the Aiven Console:

1. Click the user information icon in the top right and select Organizations.
2. Click Create organization.
3. Enter a name for the organization.
4. Optional: Select any projects to assign to this organization. You can search for projects by name.
5. Click Create organization.