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Manage Organizations

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  • Create an Organization
  • View Organizations
  • Leave an Organization
  • Rename an Organization
  • Delete an Organization

In the organizations and projects hierarchy, an organization can contain multiple projects (previously referred to as groups). Under this structure:

  • Billing happens at the organization level while preserving visibility into usage in each project.

  • You can view all projects within an organization.

  • You can use teams to bulk assign organization users to projects within the organization.

If you need to scale beyond the existing project limits, you can create multiple organizations.

When you create an organization, you are added as an Organization Owner for the organization.

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  1. Expand the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

  2. Click View All Organizations.

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Important

Don't include sensitive information in your organization name.

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You have the option of adding a new Cloud Manager organization or a new Atlas organization. For more information on Cloud Manager see the documentation.

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  1. For existing Atlas users, enter their username. Usually, this is the email the person used to register.

  2. For new Atlas users, enter their email address to send an invitation.

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When you create a new organization with the Atlas UI, Atlas requires IP access lists for the Atlas Administration API by default. If you require an IP access list, your Atlas Administration API keys can make API requests only from the location-based IP or CIDR addresses that you specify in the IP access list.

To disable the IP access list requirement and allow your Atlas Administration API keys to make requests from any address on the internet, toggle Require IP Access List for the Atlas Administration API to OFF.

To learn more, see Optional: Require an IP Access List for the Atlas Administration API.

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To list all organizations using the Atlas CLI, run the following command:

atlas organizations list [options]

To return the details for the organization you specify using the Atlas CLI, run the following command:

atlas organizations describe <ID> [options]

To learn more about the syntax and parameters for the previous commands, see the Atlas CLI documentation for atlas organizations list and atlas organizations describe.

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See: Related Links

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To leave an organization, at least another user must exist as an Owner for the organization.

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  1. Expand the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

  2. Click View All Organizations.

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For the organization you wish to leave, click its Leave button to bring up the Leave Organization dialog box.

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You must have the Organization Owner role for an organization to rename it.

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  1. If it's not already displayed, select your desired organization from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

  2. Click the Organization Settings icon next to the Organizations menu.

    The Organization Settings page displays.

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To delete an organization, you must have Organization Owner role for the organization.

You can't delete an organization that has active projects. You must delete the organization's projects before you can delete the organization.

You can't delete an organization with outstanding payments. To learn more, see Troubleshoot Invoices and Payments.

If you have a Backup Compliance Policy enabled, you can't delete a project if any snapshots exists. If you can't remove all projects, you can't delete the organization.

To delete an organization using the Atlas CLI, run the following command:

atlas organizations delete <ID> [options]

To learn more about the command syntax and parameters, see the Atlas CLI documentation for atlas organizations delete.

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  1. If it's not already displayed, select your desired organization from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

  2. Click the Organization Settings icon next to the Organizations menu.

    The Organization Settings page displays.

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In the General Settings tab, click Delete. This displays the Delete Organization dialog box.

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