Step 2: Create an organization

In this step, you create an Apigee organization.

To create a new organization and provision it:

  1. On the command line, get your gcloud authentication credentials using the following command:

    Linux / MacOS

    export TOKEN=$(gcloud auth print-access-token)

    To check that your token was populated, use echo, as the following example shows:

    echo $TOKEN

    This should display your token as an encoded string.

    Windows

    for /f "tokens=*" %a in ('gcloud auth print-access-token') do set TOKEN=%a

    To check that your token was populated, use echo, as the following example shows:

    echo %TOKEN%

    This should display your token as an encoded string.

  2. In Step 1, you created the PROJECT_ID environment variable. Add these environment variables:

    Linux / MacOS

    export ORG_NAME=$PROJECT_ID
    export ANALYTICS_REGION="ANALYTICS_REGION"
    export RUNTIMETYPE=HYBRID

    Windows

    set ORG_NAME=$PROJECT_ID
    set ANALYTICS_REGION="ANALYTICS_REGION"
    set RUNTIMETYPE=HYBRID

    Where:

    • ORG_NAME (Required): This value must match the PROJECT_ID.
    • ANALYTICS_REGION (Required): The primary region for analytics data storage. For a list of available Apigee API Analytics regions, see Apigee locations.
    • RUNTIMETYPE (Required): Must be set to HYBRID.
  3. Call the following Apigee API to create the organization:
    curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -X POST -H "content-type:application/json" \
      -d '{
        "name":"'"$ORG_NAME"'",
        "runtimeType":"'"$RUNTIMETYPE"'",
        "analyticsRegion":"'"$ANALYTICS_REGION"'"
      }' \
      "https://apigee.googleapis.com/v1/organizations?parent=projects/$PROJECT_ID"

    On a successful creation request, the organizations API responds with a message similar to the following:

    {
      "name": "organizations/org_name/operations/LONG_RUNNING_OPERATION_ID",
      "metadata": {
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.apigee.v1.OperationMetadata",
        "operationType": "INSERT",
        "targetResourceName": "organizations/org_name",
        "state": "IN_PROGRESS"
      }
    }

    Where:

    • LONG_RUNNING_OPERATION_ID is the UUID of an asynchronous, long-running operation. You can use this ID to check the status of your organization creation request (described in step 5).
    • org_name is the ID of your new organization that is currently being created.

    As the state property in the response indicates, Apigee has started to create the new organization, so its state is IN_PROGRESS. This process can take several minutes.

    If you get an error, see Troubleshooting organization creation.

  4. Save the long-running operation ID to an environment variable. It will be useful for future management tasks.

    Syntax

    export LONG_RUNNING_OPERATION_ID=LONG_RUNNING_OPERATION_ID

    Example

    export LONG_RUNNING_OPERATION_ID=6abc8a72-46de-f9da-bcfe-70d9ab347e4f
  5. You can check the status of the long-running operation whose ID was returned by the creation request. To do this, use the operations API. For example:
    curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
      "https://apigee.googleapis.com/v1/organizations/$ORG_NAME/operations/$LONG_RUNNING_OPERATION_ID"

    The following examples show possible responses to this request:

    IN_PROGRESS

    If Apigee is still creating the organization, Apigee responds with a status of IN_PROGRESS. For example:

    {
      "name": "organizations/ORG_NAME/operations/LONG_RUNNING_OPERATION_ID",
      "metadata": {
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.apigee.v1.OperationMetadata",
        "operationType": "INSERT",
        "targetResourceName": "organizations/ORG_NAME",
        "state": "IN_PROGRESS"
      }
    }

    You should wait a little longer before attempting to verify that the creation process is complete.

    FINISHED

    When the organization has been provisioned, the state of the long-running operation is FINISHED. For example:

    {
      "name": "organizations/ORG_NAME/operations/LONG_RUNNING_OPERATION_ID",
      "metadata": {
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.apigee.v1.OperationMetadata",
        "operationType": "INSERT",
        "targetResourceName": "organizations/ORG_NAME",
        "state": "FINISHED"
      },
      "done": true,
      "response": {
        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.apigee.v1.Organization",
        "name": "ORG_NAME",
        "description": "",
        "createdAt": "1626237148461",
        "lastModifiedAt": "1626237149384",
        "properties": {
          "property": [
            {
              "name": "features.hybrid.enabled",
              "value": "true"
            },
            {
              "name": "features.mart.connect.enabled",
              "value": "true"
            }
          ]
        },
        "analyticsRegion": "ANALYTICS_REGION",
        "runtimeType": "HYBRID",
        "subscriptionType": "TRIAL",
        "state": "ACTIVE",
        "billingType": "EVALUATION",
        "expiresAt": "1631421073171",
        "addonsConfig": {
          "advancedApiOpsConfig": {},
          "integrationConfig": {},
          "monetizationConfig": {}
        }
      }
    }
  6. You can use the Apigee organizations API to retrieve information about an organization after it is created. For example:

    curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
      "https://apigee.googleapis.com/v1/organizations/$ORG_NAME"

    The response to your request contains details about the specified organization in JSON format.

    {
      "name": "apigee-example",
      "createdAt": "1626237148461",
      "lastModifiedAt": "1626237149384",
      "properties": {
        "property": [
          {
            "name": "features.hybrid.enabled",
            "value": "true"
          },
          {
            "name": "features.mart.connect.enabled",
            "value": "true"
          }
        ]
      },
      "analyticsRegion": "us-west1",
      "runtimeType": "HYBRID",
      "subscriptionType": "TRIAL",
      "projectId": "apigee-example",
      "state": "ACTIVE",
      "billingType": "EVALUATION",
      "expiresAt": "1631421073171",
      "addonsConfig": {
        "advancedApiOpsConfig": {},
        "integrationConfig": {},
        "monetizationConfig": {}
      }
    }

Troubleshooting organization creation

When you create an organization with the Create organizations API, you might get an error response. Responses look like the following:

{
  "error": {
    "code": HTTP_error_code,
    "message": "short_error_message",
    "status": "high_level_error_type",
    "details": [
      {
        "@type": "specific_error_type",
        "detail": "expanded_error_description"
      }
    ]
  }
}

The following table lists errors you might receive and potential resolutions when you try to create a new organization:

HTTP Error Code HTTP Error Description
400 Invalid JSON payload received Either the structure of the data in your request contains a syntax error or the path to the endpoint is incorrect.
400 Invalid organization ID The organization ID that you request cannot contain uppercase letters or any special characters other than hyphens. It must contain only lowercase letters, numbers, and/or hyphens. It can be up to a maximum of 32 characters long.
400 Unsupported analytics region You either did not specify the value of the analyticsRegion in your request body, or the value you specified is not one of the valid options.
400 Does not have an Apigee entitlement Your Google Cloud project (that you created in Step 2: Create a Google Cloud project) has not yet been hybrid enabled. This could indicate an issue with your billing or some other error related to your Google Cloud account. For more information, contact Apigee Sales.
401 Request had invalid authentication credentials Your gcloud authentication token is either bad or outdated, or you did not include one in the request. Generate a new token and resend the address.
403 Permission denied on resource project project_ID You might have sent a request that contained an incorrect project ID or path.
403 Unable to retrieve project information The organization has not yet been created or provisioned. You can issue a request to the Operations API to check the status of the long-running operation, as described in step 5.
409 Organization already exists You tried to create more than one organization for the Google Cloud project. You can only create one organization per project.
409 Org proposed_org_name already exists You tried to create an organization that has the same ID as one that already exists. Organization IDs must be unique across all hybrid customers. Resubmit with a new proposed organization ID; for example, append a numeric value to the end of the previous ID that you tried.

Next step

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