Google Cloud Platform follows a fixed hierarchy to organize and distribute resources:
- Organization: The highest unit is an Organization. An Organization is set up (in GCP) using GSuite, which is the productivity toolkit by Google, and Cloud Identity, which is ID as a Service Enterprise Mobility management platform. It is a common practice to register your domain name as the organization name. All of the roles related to one domain go under the same organization in terms of IAM and billing.
- Folders: Folders fall one layer below Organization. An organization can have one or more folders affiliated to it and each folder can contain multiple projects or folders. As a common practice, folders represent departments in an organization. There are some limitations to folders, like having a maximum of 100 folders under one folder or to perform up to four levels...
