How to create folders under the organization in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)?

Question

I created a GCP account, accepted all licensing agreements.

I setup an Organization and a billing account, got that confirmed.

I am now trying to create a folder under the organization that was setup, and get a yellow warning ! triangle:

You do not have permission to create folders in this location.

Why?

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How do I fix this?

When I go to any page in IAM it gives me warnings that I do not have permissions with anything related to IAM. I can't grant myself any further permissions.

I am logging in as the same user that created the GCP account (which is a GSuite user).

any help would be appreciated. There is no support of any kind direct from Google with a paid GCP account, I am pointed here.

Answer 1

As was already pointed out by John Hanley, you will need to have the correct permissions to create a Folder in your organization:

If you are not the Prooject Owner, ask your administrator to grant you permissions to your account to create folders, I see you follow the access_control manual, but be sure you have the Folder Admin role:

Also, take a look at the “best practices“ regarding folders IAM permissions, this may help to configure them.

Answer 2

When you create an organization, you are not automatically assigned permissions (roles) in the organization. You need to add roles to your IAM member account.

There are several roles to consider. For the Project Owner, add the role roles/ resourcemanager.organizationAdmin at the Organization Level.

Access Control for Organizations using IAM

Also, review the roles Project Creator and Billing Account Creator

Managing Default Organization Roles