Administration

Organization and company owners can manage members, control access, and enforce security across their Docker environments. You perform these tasks in Docker Home, which provides centralized observability, access management, and security controls.

As an organization or company owner, you can:

• Create and manage companies and organizations
• Assign roles and permissions to members
• Group members into teams to manage access by project or role
• Set company-wide policies, including SCIM provisioning and security enforcement

Company and organization hierarchy

To provide centralized administration, Docker organizes companies and organizations into the following hierarchy and roles.

Company

A company groups multiple Docker organizations for centralized configuration. A company owner can view and manage every organization in the company and its company-wide settings, with the same access rights as an organization owner. For the company owner role and how it affects seats, see Company roles.

Companies are only available for Docker Business subscribers.

Organization

An organization sits below the company and is where you group teams and members and assign access to repositories. Every Docker Team and Business subscriber has at least one organization.

Organization owners hold the organization owner administrator role and manage organization settings, users, and access controls. Each owner occupies a seat.

Upgrading to a Docker Business plan grants you the company owner role so you can manage multiple organizations.

Team

Teams are optional and let you group members to assign repository permissions collectively. Teams simplify permission management across projects or functions.

Member

A member is any Docker user added to an organization. Organization and company owners can assign roles to members to define their level of access.

What's next

Learn how to manage companies and organizations in the following sections.