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Nick Vigilante c84aa564ba docs: normalize code-fence languages for Shiki compatibility (#27161)
Normalizes non-standard code-fence language tags across `docs/**` so a
strict highlighter (Shiki, used by Fumadocs) won't fail the build on an
unrecognized language, and unifies redundant synonym tags onto one
canonical form per language. The current renderer (Speed-Highlight)
detects the language from the code content, not the fence label, so this
drift wasn't visible until now.

## Changes

- `hcl` -> `tf` (199 fences, including indented ones nested in
numbered/bulleted lists). Shiki ships `hcl` and `terraform` as two
distinct grammars (not aliases); every `hcl`-tagged fence in `docs/**`
is actually Terraform resource/data/provider syntax, so the more
specific `terraform` grammar is correct for all of them. `tf` is Shiki's
own alias for that grammar, and it's also what GitHub's own markdown
renderer resolves to the same HCL/Terraform highlighting.
- `pwsh`/`powershell` -> `ps1`. Both `ps` and `ps1` are registered
PowerShell aliases in Shiki, but on GitHub's renderer only `.ps1` is a
registered file extension (`.ps` isn't), so `ps1` renders identically to
`powershell` there today while bare `ps` would silently lose
highlighting.
- `env` -> `dotenv` (a dedicated Shiki grammar for `KEY=VALUE` files)
- `text`/`output`/`none`/`url` -> `txt`. Same built-in plain-text
fallback either way, just shorter.
- `Dockerfile` -> `dockerfile` (lowercase)
- `bash`/`shell` -> `sh` (732 fences). Shiki and GitHub both alias all
three to a single shell grammar; this was already the style guide's
stated preference, just not enforced across the existing corpus until
now.
- `markdown` -> `md` (4 fences). Alias of the same grammar in both Shiki
and GitHub.
- `jsonc` -> `json` (1 fence). The block has no comments or trailing
commas, so it doesn't need the comments-capable grammar.
- `ts` -> `tsx` (2 fences, `docs/about/contributing/frontend.md`).
Verified the actual content tokenizes identically under both grammars,
and a sibling block in the same file already needs `tsx` for real JSX,
so unifying to one tag is safe for this file. Documented a caveat: `tsx`
mis-tokenizes the legacy angle-bracket type-assertion syntax
(`<Type>value`), which is invalid in real `.tsx` files anyway, so use
`value as Type` instead.
- `yml` -> `yaml` (1 fence)
- Updated `docs/.style/style-guide/formatting.md` to document all
canonical tags

`promql` (2 fences) and `caddyfile` (2 fences) are left as-is. Shiki
doesn't bundle a grammar for either, so they need a custom grammar
registration when the site adopts Shiki, rather than degrading to `txt`.
Tracked as follow-up work under DOCS-118 and
[DOCS-544](https://linear.app/codercom/issue/DOCS-544/vendor-a-local-promql-grammar-for-shiki-syntax-highlighting)
(promql).

Does not touch `offlinedocs/`.

Linear:
[DOCS-476](https://linear.app/codercom/issue/DOCS-476/normalize-docs-code-fence-languages-de-risk-shikifumadocs)

<details>
<summary>How the fence tags were verified</summary>

Each tag was tested against a real `shiki@latest` highlighter instance
(`codeToHtml`/`codeToTokens`) and cross-checked against GitHub's
`@wooorm/starry-night` grammar sources (the renderer that actually
displays these `.md` files today, in repo browsing and PR diffs), since
that's what determines whether brevity is safe before Shiki adoption:

```text
FAIL  env        -- Language `env` is not included in this bundle.
FAIL  Dockerfile -- Language `Dockerfile` is not included in this bundle.
FAIL  promql     -- Language `promql` is not included in this bundle.
FAIL  caddyfile  -- Language `caddyfile` is not included in this bundle.
FAIL  pwsh       -- Language `pwsh` is not included in this bundle.
FAIL  output     -- Language `output` is not included in this bundle.
```

`hcl` doesn't error in Shiki, since it's a real grammar, but that's
exactly the trap: it was silently rendering every fence with the generic
HCL grammar instead of the Terraform-specific one. Every `hcl`-tagged
fence in `docs/**` was manually checked against `origin/main` and is
genuinely Terraform content.

For `ts`/`tsx`, tokenizing the actual doc content confirmed identical
output under both grammars; a synthetic test with the legacy
angle-bracket cast syntax confirmed `tsx` degrades on that specific
construct, which the style guide now calls out.

The first normalization pass only matched fence tags at column 0
(`^```tag$`), missing tags indented inside numbered/bulleted lists. A
follow-up pass caught the remaining occurrences at any indentation
level.

</details>


---

*This PR description and the underlying changes were prepared with Coder
Agents assistance.*
2026-07-15 14:07:09 -04:00

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Organizations (Premium)

Note

Organizations requires a Premium license. For more details, contact your account team.

Organizations can be used to segment and isolate resources inside a Coder deployment for different user groups or projects.

Example

Here is an example of how one could use organizations to run a Coder deployment with multiple platform teams, all with unique resources:

Organizations Example

For more information about how to use organizations, visit the organizations best practices guide.

The default organization

All Coder deployments start with one organization called coder. All new users are added to this organization by default.

To edit the organization details, select Admin settings from the top bar, then Organizations:

Organizations Menu

From there, you can manage the name, icon, description, users, and groups:

Organization Settings

Additional organizations

Any additional organizations have unique admins, users, templates, provisioners, groups, and workspaces. Each organization must have at least one dedicated provisioner since the built-in provisioners only apply to the default organization.

You can configure organization/role/group sync from your identity provider to avoid manually assigning users to organizations.

How to create an organization

Prerequisites

  • Coder v2.16+ deployment with Premium license and Organizations enabled (contact your account team) for more details.
  • User with Owner role

1. Create the organization

To create a new organization:

  1. Select Admin settings from the top bar, then Organizations.

  2. Select the current organization to expand the organizations dropdown, then select Create Organization:

    Organizations dropdown and Create Organization
  3. Enter the details and select Save to continue:

    New Organization

In this example, we'll create the data-platform org.

Next deploy a provisioner and template for this organization.

2. Deploy a provisioner

Provisioners are organization-scoped and are responsible for executing Terraform/OpenTofu to provision the infrastructure for workspaces and testing templates. Before creating templates, we must deploy at least one provisioner as the built-in provisioners are scoped to the default organization.

  1. Using Coder CLI, run the following command to create a key that will be used to authenticate the provisioner:

    coder provisioner keys create data-cluster-key --org data-platform
    Successfully created provisioner key data-cluster! Save this authentication token, it will not be shown again.
    
    < key omitted >
    
  2. Start the provisioner with the key on your desired platform.

    In this example, start the provisioner using the Coder CLI on a host with Docker. For instructions on using other platforms like Kubernetes, see our provisioner documentation.

    export CODER_URL=https://<your-coder-url>
    export CODER_PROVISIONER_DAEMON_KEY=<key>
    coder provisionerd start --org <org-name>
    

3. Create a template

Once you've started a provisioner, you can create a template. You'll notice the Create Template screen now has an organization dropdown:

Template Org Picker

4. Add members

From Admin settings, select Organizations, then Members to add members to your organization. Once added, members will be able to see the organization-specific templates.

Add members

5. Create a workspace

Now, users in the data platform organization will see the templates related to their organization. Users can be in multiple organizations.

Workspace List

Next steps