All squids within SQD Cloud are grouped into organizations. This layer controls team access, secrets, and billing.
To create an organization, click on the organizations dropdown menu in the upper left corner of the Cloud homepage and select “Create new organization”.
Playgrounds
A playground organization is created for each account on its first login. There, you can deploy one squid for development or prototyping, free of charge.
Playground squids cannot be used in production, as they are collocated and run on spot VMs. Expect 3-5 minutes of downtime once every few days. Other limitations include:
Unlike other organizations, playgrounds cannot be shared or billed.
Draft organizations
Freshly created organizations are marked as drafts until upgraded to Professional status. It is not possible to deploy squids to draft organizations, but you can invite other users into them and set environment variables.
Professional organizations
Adding a valid payment method promotes an organization to Professional status. Visit the billing page, select your organization in the dropdown menu in the top left corner and follow the upgrade instructions:
Once an organization is upgraded you can deploy multiple squids. The scale: section is unlocked so you can request resources for each deployment. Your organization is billed according to the pricing schedule.
Choose an organization structure
Keep projects in one organization when the same team should share:
- deployment access;
- organization secrets;
- billing and usage reporting.
Use separate organizations when product teams require separate access boundaries, credentials, or invoices.
Within one organization, use consistent squid-name prefixes and tags to distinguish products and environments. A tag is a deployment pointer, not an access-control boundary.
Anyone with permission to manage organization secrets can affect every
deployment that consumes those secrets. Use separate organizations when
teams must not share credentials.
Working with organizations
When your account has access to more than one organization, it is necessary to specify one when listing or deploying (with some exceptions) your squids, as well as when setting secrets. Do it with the --org/-o flag:
If you omit the flag, sqd will ask you to choose an organization interactively.
Include the organization code, squid name, and exact slot when requesting support. 