Team membership API reference

Note: Team management is available in HCP Terraform Standard Edition. Free organizations can also use this API, but can only manage membership of their owners team. Learn more about HCP Terraform pricing here.

The Team Membership API is used to add or remove users from teams. The Team API is used to create or destroy teams.

Organization Membership

Note: To add users to a team, they must first receive and accept the invitation to join the organization by email. This process ensures that you do not accidentally add the wrong person by mistyping a username. Refer to the Organization Memberships API documentation for more information.

Add a User to Team (With user ID)

This method adds multiple users to a team using the user ID. Both users and teams must already exist.

POST /teams/:team_id/relationships/users

Parameter	Description
`:team_id`	The ID of the team.

Request Body

This POST endpoint requires a JSON object with the following properties as a request payload.

Properties without a default value are required.

Key path	Type	Default	Description
`data[].type`	string		Must be `"users"`.
`data[].id`	string		The ID of the user you want to add to this team.

Sample Payload

{  "data": [    {      "type": "users",      "id": "myuser1"    },    {      "type": "users",      "id": "myuser2"    }  ]}

Sample Request

curl \  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \  --header "Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json" \  --request POST \  --data @payload.json \  https://app.terraform.io/api/v2/teams/257525/relationships/users

Add a User to Team (With organization membership ID)

This method adds multiple users to a team using the organization membership ID. Unlike the user ID method, the user only needs an invitation to the organization.

POST /teams/:team_id/relationships/organization-memberships

Parameter	Description
`:team_id`	The ID of the team.

Request Body

This POST endpoint requires a JSON object with the following properties as a request payload.

Properties without a default value are required.

Key path	Type	Default	Description
`data[].type`	string		Must be `"organization-memberships"`.
`data[].id`	string		The organization membership ID of the user to add.

Sample Payload

{  "data": [    {      "type": "organization-memberships",      "id": "ou-nX7inDHhmC3quYgy"    },    {      "type": "organization-memberships",      "id": "ou-tTJph1AQVK5ZmdND"    }  ]}

Sample Request

curl \  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \  --header "Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json" \  --request POST \  --data @payload.json \  https://app.terraform.io/api/v2/teams/257525/relationships/organization-memberships

Delete a User from Team (With user ID)

This method removes multiple users from a team using the user ID. Both users and teams must already exist. This method only removes a user from this team. It does not delete that user overall.

DELETE /teams/:team_id/relationships/users

Parameter	Description
`:team_id`	The ID of the team.

Request Body

This DELETE endpoint requires a JSON object with the following properties as a request payload.

Properties without a default value are required.

Key path	Type	Default	Description
`data[].type`	string		Must be `"users"`.
`data[].id`	string		The ID of the user to remove from this team.

Sample Payload

{  "data": [    {      "type": "users",      "id": "myuser1"    },    {      "type": "users",      "id": "myuser2"    }  ]}

Sample Request

$ curl \  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \  --header "Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json" \  --request DELETE \  --data @payload.json \  https://app.terraform.io/api/v2/teams/257525/relationships/users

Delete a User from Team (With organization membership ID)

This method removes multiple users from a team using the organization membership ID. This method only removes a user from this team. It does not delete that user overall.

DELETE /teams/:team_id/relationships/organization-memberships

Parameter	Description
`:team_id`	The ID of the team.

Request Body

This DELETE endpoint requires a JSON object with the following properties as a request payload.

Properties without a default value are required.

Key path	Type	Default	Description
`data[].type`	string		Must be `"organization-memberships"`.
`data[].id`	string		The organization membership ID of the user to remove.

Sample Payload

{  "data": [    {      "type": "organization-memberships",      "id": "ou-nX7inDHhmC3quYgy"    },    {      "type": "organization-memberships",      "id": "ou-tTJph1AQVK5ZmdND"    }  ]}

Sample Request

$ curl \  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \  --header "Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json" \  --request DELETE \  --data @payload.json \  https://app.terraform.io/api/v2/teams/257525/relationships/organization-memberships