Gitlab Project Structure

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Hello Team,

we are Migrating from Github to Gitlab. Here is my requirement I want Organization under organization I need all my Projects/ repo should be placed. I came up with a strategy please find below image
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Problem: problem with the current structure is if we delete Company group all our projects and teams will go away. so I need the following solutions

  1. if we have an option to restore the deleted group?
  2. if not, I want to place all my projects under one hood but that should not be a group. as we have a problem if we create projects under one group
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Hi,

to prevent unwanted deletion of groups, I’d recommend assigning fine granular permissions and roles, and only give ownership to admins of your org.

  • Company group
    • owner can delete, limited access
    • maintainers can manage settings, create projects
    • developers can create issues, branches, merge requests in projects
  • Teams
    • Mnts team group - owner is again limited to the team manager
      • maintainers do MR merges after reviews, manage project settings
      • developers create issues, MRs, etc. in projects

And so on.

If you are running a self-managed GitLab instance, I highly recommend backups to being able to restore any unwanted deletion. As a customer on GitLab.com SaaS you can request restores, although regular data export for backups is recommended here too.

Cheers,
Michael

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Thank you for the response. Is there any best practice that I can replace my organization/Company with? like namespace or something else instead of a Group? so that all my organization projects will maintain under that

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Hi,

something like

our-company-namespace
     company group
          team1 group
                team1 project1
                team1 project2
           team2 group
                team2 project1
     oss group
                oss-library1

You can model many things with groups and sub groups, and treat them as namespace too. The important bits are the roles assigned to each - a team1 group member does not need to have owner access to the company group for example.

Cheers,
Michael

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Sure Thank you Mike