Organization Creation Configuration

Dashboard Location: Global Overview > Add Organization

Organization creation in Meraki provides administrators with comprehensive multi-tenant management capabilities, enabling hierarchical network infrastructure organization, centralized policy management, role-based access control, and scalable enterprise network deployment. This functionality supports distributed enterprise architectures, managed service provider (MSP) operations, multi-site network management, centralized security policies, and administrative delegation across geographically dispersed locations. Organization management is essential for enterprise scalability, operational efficiency, compliance governance, cost allocation, and maintaining consistent network policies while supporting independent administrative domains and customizable network hierarchies.

Example-1: The example below demonstrates basic organization creation.

This configuration establishes the foundational organizational structure for managing networks and devices within the Meraki cloud platform. The example creating the organization that is defined with “org_name” enviromental variable.

meraki:
  domains:
    - name: !env domain
      administrator:
        name: !env org_admin
      organizations:
        - name: !env org_name