Creating an HCP organization

The heart of an HCP structure is an organization. Remember that HCP is multitenant and allows a user to join multiple organizations for separate teams or business units. An organization encapsulates team-role-based access control, billing, and service groups. An organization can create one or more projects for a team to share, including multiple instances of Consul or Vault services. Each project may only have one instance of HCP Packer. Organizations and projects can be created manually via the web page: https://cloud.hashicorp.com/. The menu on the left of the HCP portal will show your service navigation as follows:

Figure 10.1 – The HCP navigation bar

Traditional services such as Vault and Consul can be deployed in multiple instances per project and are often configured via a Terraform provider. Currently, Packer must be enabled manually with a global registry for the project. At the time of writing, there are three...