Working with consumer organizations

Note: In the Help page of the Cloud Manager, API Manager, and API Designer user interfaces, there's a Product information tile that you can click to find out information about your product versions, as well as Git information about the package versions being used. Note that the API Designer product information is based on its associated management server, but the Git information is based on where it was downloaded from.

Application developers in consumer organizations access the Developer Portal and sign up to use the Plans in the Products you create in the API Manager. You can create more than one consumer organization and each organization has one owner. Application developers are added through the Developer Portal UI.

You can also create groups of consumer organizations. A consumer organization group is an efficient way of grouping application developers together to publish Products to, making it easier to control who has access to the Plans in the Products.

Use the following tasks to administer your consumer organizations and consumer organization groups: