Planning PAS Orgs and Spaces
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This topic describes considerations for effectively planning foundations, orgs, and spaces. You can plan your orgs and spaces to make the best use of the authorization features in Pivotal Application Service.
Overview
An installation of PAS is referred to as a foundation. Each foundation has orgs and spaces. For more information, see Orgs, Spaces, Roles, and Permissions.
The PAS roles described in Orgs, Spaces, Roles, and Permissions use the principle of least privilege. Each role exists for a purpose and features in PAS enable these purposes.
Consider these roles when planning your foundations, orgs, and spaces. This allows for full use of the features and assumptions of PAS.
How PAS Layers Relate to Your Company
The following sections describe what PAS layers are and how they relate to your company structure.
Overview of PAS Layers
For an overview of each of the structural PAS layers, see the following table:
PAS Layer | Challenge to Maintain | Contains | Description | Roles |
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Foundations | Hardest | Orgs | For shared components: domains, service tiles, and the physical infrastructure | Admin, Admin Read-Only, Global Auditor |
Orgs | Average | Spaces | A group of users who share a resource quota plan, apps, services availability, and custom domains | Org Manager, Org Auditor, Org Billing Manager |
Spaces | Easiest | Apps | A shared location for app development, deployment, and maintenance | Space Manager, Space Developer, Space Auditor |
Foundations
Foundations roughly map to a company and environments. See the following diagram for an illustration:
Orgs
Orgs most often map to a business unit in a particular foundation. To understand how you can map your company structure to a PAS org, see the diagram below:
Spaces
Spaces can encompass teams, products and specific deployables. To understand how you can map your company structure to a PAS space, see the diagram below:
Mapping Considerations
The sections below describe considerations you can make when mapping foundations, orgs, and spaces.
Environment Planning
To plan your environments effectively, you must decide at what PAS layer they belong.
Broad environments, such as production environments, are commonly mapped to a foundation. More specific environments are mapped to an org or space.
Because of the large human cost to maintaining a foundation, you may see foundations mapped to production and staging environments separately.
For examples of environments and how they map to PAS layers, see the following table:
PAS Layer | Examples of Environments |
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Foundations | Production, Non-production, Sandbox |
Orgs and Spaces | Development, UAT, QA |
Questions to Consider About Each PAS Layer
For guiding questions to help you make decisions about planning your PAS structure, see the following table:
PAS Layer | Questions to Consider |
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Impact of Mapping Larger and Smaller Subsets
Subsets are the company divisions you decide to map to PAS. When creating your subsets, consider that the lower the PAS layer, the more specific you want to map your subsets. Conversely, the higher the PAS layer, the broader you want to make your subsets.
For more information about mapping larger subsets for each PAS layer, see the following table:
PAS Layer | The impact of mapping larger subsets of your company |
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For more information about mapping smaller subsets for each PAS layer, see the following table:
PAS Layer | The impact of mapping smaller subsets of your company |
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