Organization memberships API reference

Users are added to organizations by inviting them to join. Once accepted, they become members of the organization. The Organization Membership resource represents this membership.

You can invite users who already have an account, as well as new users. If the user has an existing account with the same email address used to invite them, they can reuse the same login.

Note: Once a user is a member of the organization, you can manage their team memberships using the Team Membership API.

Invite a User to an Organization

POST /organizations/:organization_name/organization-memberships

Parameter	Description
`:organization_name`	The name of the organization the user will be invited to join. The inviting user must have permission to manage organization memberships.

Note: Organization membership management is restricted to members of the owners team, the owners team API token, the organization API token, and users or teams with one of the Team Management permissions.

Status	Response	Reason
201	JSON API document	Successfully invited the user
400	JSON API error object	Unable to invite user due to organization limits
404	JSON API error object	Organization not found, or user unauthorized to perform action
422	JSON API error object	Unable to invite user due to validation errors

Request Body

This POST endpoint requires a JSON object with the following properties as a request payload.

Properties without a default value are required.

Key path	Type	Description
`data.type`	string	Must be `"organization-memberships"`.
`data.attributes.email`	string	The email address of the user to be invited.
`data.relationships.teams.data[]`	array[object]	A list of resource identifier objects that defines which teams the invited user will be a member of. These objects must contain `id` and `type` properties, and the `type` property must be `teams` (e.g. `{ "id": "team-GeLZkdnK6xAVjA5H", "type": "teams" }`). Obtain team IDs from the List Teams endpoint. All users must be added to at least one team.

Sample Payload

{
  "data": {
    "attributes": {
      "email": "test@example.com"
    },
    "relationships": {
      "teams": {
        "data": [
          {
            "type": "teams",
            "id": "team-GeLZkdnK6xAVjA5H"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "type": "organization-memberships"
  }
}

Sample Request

$ curl \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json" \
  --request POST \
  --data @payload.json \
  https://app.terraform.io/api/v2/organizations/my-organization/organization-memberships

Sample Response

{
  "data": {
    "id": "ou-nX7inDHhmC3quYgy",
    "type": "organization-memberships",
    "attributes": {
      "status": "invited"
    },
    "relationships": {
      "teams": {
        "data": [
          {
            "id": "team-GeLZkdnK6xAVjA5H",
            "type": "teams"
          }
        ]
      },
      "user": {
        "data": {
          "id": "user-J8oxGmRk5eC2WLfX",
          "type": "users"
        }
      },
      "organization": {
        "data": {
          "id": "my-organization",
          "type": "organizations"
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "included": [
    {
      "id": "user-J8oxGmRk5eC2WLfX",
      "type": "users",
      "attributes": {
        "username": null,
        "is-service-account": false,
        "auth-method": "hcp_sso",
        "avatar-url": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/55502f40dc8b7c769880b10874abc9d0?s=100&d=mm",
        "two-factor": {
          "enabled": false,
          "verified": false
        },
        "email": "test@example.com",
        "permissions": {
          "can-create-organizations": true,
          "can-change-email": true,
          "can-change-username": true,
          "can-manage-user-tokens": false
        }
      },
      "relationships": {
        "authentication-tokens": {
          "links": {
            "related": "/api/v2/users/user-J8oxGmRk5eC2WLfX/authentication-tokens"
          }
        }
      },
      "links": {
        "self": "/api/v2/users/user-J8oxGmRk5eC2WLfX"
      }
    }
  ]
}

List Memberships for an Organization

GET /organizations/:organization_name/organization-memberships

Parameter	Description
`:organization_name`	The name of the organization to list the memberships of.

Query Parameters

This endpoint supports pagination with standard URL query parameters. Remember to percent-encode [ as %5B and ] as %5D if your tooling doesn't automatically encode URLs.

Parameter	Description
`q`	Optional. A search query string. Organization memberships are searchable by user name and email.
`filter[status]`	Optional. If specified, restricts results to those with the matching status value. Valid values are `invited` and `active`.
`filter[email]`	Optional. If specified, restricts results to those with a matching user email address. If multiple comma separated values are specified, results matching any of the values are returned.
`page[number]`	Optional. If omitted, the endpoint will return the first page.
`page[size]`	Optional. If omitted, the endpoint will return 20 users per page.

Sample Request

$ curl \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json" \
  https://app.terraform.io/api/v2/organizations/my-organization/organization-memberships

Sample Response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "ou-tTJph1AQVK5ZmdND",
      "type": "organization-memberships",
      "attributes": {
        "status": "active"
      },
      "relationships": {
        "teams": {
          "data": [
            {
              "id": "team-yUrEehvfG4pdmSjc",
              "type": "teams"
            }
          ]
        },
        "user": {
          "data": {
            "id": "user-vaQqszES9JnuK4eB",
            "type": "users"
          }
        },
        "organization": {
          "data": {
            "id": "my-organization",
            "type": "organizations"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ou-D6HPYFt4GzeBt3gB",
      "type": "organization-memberships",
      "attributes": {
        "status": "active"
      },
      "relationships": {
        "teams": {
          "data": [
            {
              "id": "team-yUrEehvfG4pdmSjc",
              "type": "teams"
            }
          ]
        },
        "user": {
          "data": {
            "id": "user-oqCgH7NgTn95jTGc",
            "type": "users"
          }
        },
        "organization": {
          "data": {
            "id": "my-organization",
            "type": "organizations"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ou-x1E2eBwYwusLDC7h",
      "type": "organization-memberships",
      "attributes": {
        "status": "invited"
      },
      "relationships": {
        "teams": {
          "data": [
            {
              "id": "team-yUrEehvfG4pdmSjc",
              "type": "teams"
            }
          ]
        },
        "user": {
          "data": {
            "id": "user-UntUdBTHsVRQMzC8",
            "type": "users"
          }
        },
        "organization": {
          "data": {
            "id": "my-organization",
            "type": "organizations"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "links": {
    "self": "https://app.terraform.io/api/v2/organizations/my-organization/organization-memberships?page%5Bnumber%5D=1&page%5Bsize%5D=20",
    "first": "https://app.terraform.io/api/v2/organizations/my-organization/organization-memberships?page%5Bnumber%5D=1&page%5Bsize%5D=20",
    "prev": null,
    "next": null,
    "last": "https://app.terraform.io/api/v2/organizations/my-organization/organization-memberships?page%5Bnumber%5D=1&page%5Bsize%5D=20"
  },
  "meta": {
    "status-counts": {
      "total": 3,
      "active": 2,
      "invited": 1
    },
    "pagination": {
      "current-page": 1,
      "prev-page": null,
      "next-page": null,
      "total-pages": 1,
      "total-count": 3
    }
  }
}

List User's Own Memberships

GET /organization-memberships

Sample Request

$ curl \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json" \
  https://app.terraform.io/api/v2/organization-memberships

Sample Response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "ou-VgJgfbDVN3APUm2F",
      "type": "organization-memberships",
      "attributes": {
        "status": "invited"
      },
      "relationships": {
        "teams": {
          "data": [
            {
              "id": "team-4QrJKzxB3J5N4cJc",
              "type": "teams"
            }
          ]
        },
        "user": {
          "data": {
            "id": "user-vaQqszES9JnuK4eB",
            "type": "users"
          }
        },
        "organization": {
          "data": {
            "id": "acme-corp",
            "type": "organizations"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ou-tTJph1AQVK5ZmdND",
      "type": "organization-memberships",
      "attributes": {
        "status": "active"
      },
      "relationships": {
        "teams": {
          "data": [
            {
              "id": "team-yUrEehvfG4pdmSjc",
              "type": "teams"
            }
          ]
        },
        "user": {
          "data": {
            "id": "user-vaQqszES9JnuK4eB",
            "type": "users"
          }
        },
        "organization": {
          "data": {
            "id": "my-organization",
            "type": "organizations"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Show a Membership

GET /organization-memberships/:organization_membership_id

Parameter	Description
`:organization_membership_id`	The organization membership

Status	Response	Reason
200	JSON API document (`type: "organization-memberships"`)	The request was successful
404	JSON API error object	Organization membership not found, or user unauthorized to perform action

Sample Request

$ curl \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json" \
  https://app.terraform.io/api/v2/organization-memberships/ou-kit6GaMo3zPGCzWb

Sample Response

{
    "data": {
        "id": "ou-kit6GaMo3zPGCzWb",
        "type": "organization-memberships",
        "attributes": {
            "status": "active"
        },
        "relationships": {
            "teams": {
                "data": [
                    {
                        "id": "team-97LkM7QciNkwb2nh",
                        "type": "teams"
                    }
                ]
            },
            "user": {
                "data": {
                    "id": "user-hn6v2WK1naDpGadd",
                    "type": "users"
                }
            },
            "organization": {
                "data": {
                    "id": "hashicorp",
                    "type": "organizations"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Remove User from Organization

DELETE /organization-memberships/:organization_membership_id

Parameter	Description
`:organization_membership_id`	The organization membership

Status	Response	Reason
204	Empty body	Successfully removed the user from the organization
403	JSON API error object	Unable to remove the user: you cannot remove yourself from organizations which you own
404	JSON API error object	Organization membership not found, or user unauthorized to perform action

Sample Request

$ curl \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json" \
  --request DELETE \
  https://app.terraform.io/api/v2/organization-memberships/ou-tTJph1AQVK5ZmdND

The GET endpoints above can optionally return related resources, if requested with the include query parameter. The following resource types are available:

user - The user associated with the membership.
teams - Teams the user is a member of.

Organization memberships API reference

Invite a User to an Organization

Request Body

Sample Payload

Sample Request

Sample Response

List Memberships for an Organization

Query Parameters

Sample Request

Sample Response

List User's Own Memberships

Sample Request

Sample Response

Show a Membership

Sample Request

Sample Response

Remove User from Organization

Sample Request

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