General information about projects
A project is an organizational unit that serves as a logical container for isolating resources and managing user access. For some resources in a project, you can set creation limits — project limits and quotas. Resources of a single project can be located in different locations.
In projects, you can only manage resources of products that support projects.
The first project (My First project) is created automatically upon account registration in the control panel. If necessary, delete this project and create a new one.
A project must be selected when ordering or creating a product. After ordering or creating, you can transfer resources to another project. The duration of the transfer depends on the product and the resource you want to transfer. For example, you can transfer Cloud Platform volumes or transfer a dedicated server quickly, while transferring a cloud server will take more time.
Project activity records are saved in audit logs.
Project management: user types and permissions
Users of all types can manage projects:
- Account Owner — via the control panel;
- panel users — via the control panel;
- service users — via Servercore product APIs and other automation tools: OpenStack CLI, Terraform .
To manage project resources, a user or service user must be assigned a permission with access to the relevant project or to the entire account to access all projects. Within the permission, the role determines which operations will be available to the user. You can find out which role suits a user in the Role reference guide.
If a user does not have access to a project, you can add them to the project; for more information, see the Add a project administrator and Add a project observer guides.