How to create a team on a single GCP billing account, without providing a domain?

Question

I'm trying to set up a GCP account, and add several people to this account to do work.

My understanding is that this should be done via an "Organization" I create via the GCP, which will give me admin privileges and the ability to add others:

https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-organization

I am then directed to create either a "Google Workplace" or "Cloud Identity" which requires a web domain. But I don't want to give a web domain---I simply want to create a team of developers to use the same billing account on GCP.

How does this work?

Answer 1

If you do not have a domain and do not have either Google Worspace or Cloud Identity, then you cannot create an Organization.

An Organization resource is available for Google Workspace and Cloud Identity customers.

Quickstart using organizations

Creating and managing organizations

I simply want to create a team of developers to use the same billing account on GCP.

Billing: You have a payment account attached to a billing account. Multiple projects can be attached to a billing account. Even without an Organization, you can have multiple projects paid by the same (or different) billing account.

Users: You can add any number of users to a project. These users (IAM members) are required to have a Google Accounts identity. This typically means [email protected]. You cannot use email addresses from you own systems. They must be from Google Accounts, Google Identity or Google Workspace.

Note: I am ignoring federation and features that are not in production. There are new services coming online in 2021.