Projects let multiple people collaborate on a shared set of resources - VMs, storage, networking - without everyone needing full access to your main account. They're a good fit for a team working on a specific application or environment.
Creating a project
From Account → Projects → New Project, give the project a name and description. You'll be set as the project's owner by default.
Adding members
You can add members to a project directly if they already have an account on the platform, or send an email invitation for people who need to be onboarded. Invited members need to accept the invitation before they gain access - once accepted, they can see and manage resources within that project according to their role.
Project roles
Separate from a user's account-level role, each project member can be given a project role that further restricts what they can do inside that specific project - it can only narrow their existing account permissions, never grant more than their account already allows. This is the main tool for bringing on a contractor or external collaborator with access limited to just that project, without changing anything about their permissions elsewhere on your account.
Working inside a project
Once you're inside a project context (switchable from the portal's account menu), any VMs, networks or storage you create belong to the project rather than your personal account - meaning other project members can see and manage them too, and usage is tracked against the project.
Suspending or deleting a project
A project can be suspended temporarily, which pauses activity without deleting anything, or deleted entirely once it's no longer needed. Deleting a project is a bigger step - check with your team that any resources inside it have been moved or are no longer required before doing so.