Projects

Creating Projects

If you want to divide your virtual resources among numerous users within each account, you may create different projects within the account. A Tenant Admin user can create projects only in their own account.

To create a project:

1. In the zCompute UI, go to the Identity & Access > Accounts view. Select the account for which you wish to create a project.

2. In the lower half of the account view, select the Projects tab and click Create Project. The Create Project dialog is displayed.

3. Enter the following information:

   1. Project Name – enter a name for the new project. The name must be unique within the account. Project names are not case-sensitive.

   2. Project Description [Optional] – enter a description of the new project.

   3. Type - select the type of project:

      • VPC - Virtual Private Cloud project type.

      • DVS - Distributed Virtual Switch project type.

   4. IP Pool (VPC-type projects) - select one of the IP pools. If there is no available IP pool, request an administrator to create a shared edge network available in your Zadara Cloud Services region.

   5. Grant Permissions - leave the checkbox selected (default) to grant yourself permissions on the new project.

4. Click OK to create the new project. The new project is created and is displayed in the Projects tab of the specific account.

Enabling or Disabling Projects

To enable or disable a project:

1. In the zCompute UI, go to the Identity & Access > Accounts view. Select the account containing the project that you wish to enable or disable.

2. In the lower half of the account view, select the Projects tab.

3. From the displayed project list, select the desired project.

4. If the project is currently disabled, click Enable in the toolbar to enable it.

5. If the project is currently enabled, click Disable in the toolabr to disable it.

Renaming Projects

To rename a project:

1. In the zCompute UI, go to the Identity & Access > Accounts view. Select the account containing the project that you wish to rename.

2. In the lower half of the account view, select the Projects tab.

3. From the displayed project list, select the desired project.

4. In the toolbar, click Rename.

5. In the Rename Project dialog, enter the desired changes in the project name and description.

6. Click OK.

Deleting Projects

To delete a project:

1. In the zCompute UI, go to the Identity & Access > Accounts view. Select the account containing the project that you wish to delete.

2. In the lower half of the account view, select the Projects tab.

3. From the displayed project list, select the desired project.

4. In the toolbar, click Delete.

5. In the Delete Project confirmation dialog, click Delete. A message confirming the deletion of the project will pop-up in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.

   Note

   You cannot delete the ‘default’ project in the cloud_admin account.

Assigning a User to a Project

To assign a user to a project:

1. In the zCompute UI, go to the Identity & Access > Accounts view. Select the account containing the project for which you wish to assign a user.

2. In the lower half of the account view, select the Projects tab.

3. From the displayed project list, select the desired project.

4. In the toolbar, click Assign User.

5. In the Assign User dialog, enter the followng:

   1. User - select a user from the drop-down list which will display all users associated with the account.

   2. Project Roles - select Member or Tenant Admin.

   3. Policies

   4. AWS API Policies

   5. Click OK.

6. A new user will be created with the selected Zadara Cloud Services role and the default Zadara Cloud Services Policy ‘FullAccess’.

Project Limits

Project Limits Overview

Zadara Cloud Services allows you to set limits on the amount of virtual compute, service, storage and network resources each project can use. It is recommended that each account Tenant Admin user set the available resource limits for each of the projects within their account.

Project Limits

To view existing project virtual resources:

1. Navigate to the Identity & Access > Accounts > view for the specific account containing the project for which the limits should be set.

2. In the lower half of the account view, select the Projects tab.

3. From the displayed project list, select the desired project.

4. In the bottom half of the project view, select the Limits tab. Existing limits, if any, will be displayed for the following resources:

   1. Compute:

      • Number of cores

      • Number of images

      • Number of instances

      • Number of key-pairs

      • RAM

   2. Services

      • Number of Kubernetes clusters

      • Number of database instances

      • Number of load balancers

      • Number of registries

   3. Storage

      • Number of snapshots

      • Number of volumes

      • Volume capacity

      Note

      Storage limits are defined and displayed per storage pool, which are then aggregated to an Account limit.

   4. Network

      • Floating IPs

      • Networks

      • Routers

      • Security Groups

      • Security Group Rules

      • Subnets

To add new project compute, services, storage resource limits:

1. Navigate to the project Limits tab as described above.

2. Select the resource category (compute, services, storage) to be limited.

3. Click Add.

4. In the Add Limit dialog, select the resource to be limited. Note the current usage of the resource will also be displayed.

5. Enter the resource limit to be added. Verify that the limit exceeds the current usage.

6. Click OK.

To modify existing project compute, services, storage resource limits:

1. Navigate to the project Limits tab as described above.

2. Select the resource category (compute, services, storage) to be modified.

3. On the row with the specific limit to be modified, click on the modify icon (pencil).

4. In the Edit Limit dialog, note the current resource usage and limit.

5. Enter the new resource limit. Verify that the new limit exceeds the current usage.

6. Click OK.

To remove existing project compute, services, storage resource limits:

1. Navigate to the project Limits tab as described above.

2. Select the resource category (compute, services, storage) with limit to be deleted.

3. On the row with the specific limit to be removed, click on the delete icon. The existing limit will be deleted.

Managing Project Virtual Network Resource Limits

To limit project network resources:

1. Navigate to the project Limits tab as described above.

2. Click on the Edit button on the top-right of the Network list.

3. For each virtual network resource, either check the Unlimited box, or uncheck it and enter a limit.

4. Click OK. The network resource limit list will be updated accordingly.