General information about projects
A project is a group of account resources whose management can be isolated at the level of account users, their types, and roles. Resources of one project can be located in different regions, availability zones, and pools. For some resources in a project, you can set restrictions on creation — project limits and quotas.
In projects, you can only manage resources in products that support project work.
The first project (My First project) is created automatically when you register your account in the control panel. If necessary, delete this project and create a new one.
You must select a project when ordering or creating a product. After ordering or creating a product, you can transfer resources to another project. The duration of the migration depends on the product and the resource you want to migrate. For example, you can migrate cloud platform disks or migrate a dedicated server quickly, while migrating a cloud server will take you longer.
Project management: types and roles of users
Projects can be managed by users of all types:
- control panel users и federated users — through the control panel;
- service users — through Servercore product APIs and other automation tools: OpenStack CLI, Terraform.
To manage a project, a user must be assigned a role with access to the project — the role defines which operations the user has access to. To determine which role is appropriate for a user, see Comparing Roles in Project Management.
If a user does not have access to the project, you can add them to the project, more details in the instructions Add Project Administrator and Add Project Observer.