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title: "General information about projects"
sidebar_label: "Projects"
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description: "Basic information about projects: description, project management, and more"
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# General information about projects

A project is an organizational unit that acts as a logical container for isolating resources and managing [user](/access-control/user-types.mdx) access. For some resources in a project, you can set creation restrictions — [project limits and quotas](/access-control/projects/quotas.mdx). Resources within the same project can be located in different [locations](/infrastructure/locations.mdx).

In projects, you can manage resources only for [products that support working with projects](#selectel-products-that-support-projects).

The first project (My First project) is created automatically upon [account registration in the Control Panel](/account/registration.mdx). If you need to, [delete this project](/access-control/projects/manage/delete-project.mdx) and [create a new one](/access-control/projects/create-project.mdx).

You must select a project when ordering or creating a product. After ordering or creating, you can move resources to another project. The duration of the transfer depends on the product and the resource you want to move. For instance, you can [transfer cloud platform volumes](/cloud-servers/volumes/transfer-volume.mdx#transfer-volume-to-another-project-or-account) or [transfer a dedicated server](/dedicated/manage/transfer-to-another-project.mdx) quickly, while [transferring a cloud server](/cloud-servers/manage/transfer-server.mdx#transfer-server) will take more time.

Records of project operations are saved in [audit logs](/audit-logs/about-audit-logs.mdx).

## Project management: user types and permissions \{#user-types-and-permissions}

Projects can be managed by users of all types:

* [Account owner](/access-control/user-types.mdx#account-owner) — via the Control Panel; ;
* [panel users](/access-control/user-types.mdx#panel-users) — via the Control Panel;
* [service users](/access-control/user-types.mdx#service-users) — via the [Selectel product API](/api/) and other automation tools: [OpenStack CLI](/cloud-servers/tools/openstack-cli/), [Terraform](/terraform/providers/), [selvpc](/cloud-servers/tools/selvpc.mdx).

To manage project resources, a user or a service user must be assigned a permission granting access to the necessary project or to the entire account for access to all projects. Within a permission, a role defines which operations will be available to the user. You can determine which role is suitable for a user in the [Role Reference](/access-control/role-reference.mdx) guide.

If a user does not have access to a project, you can add them to the project, see more in the instructions [Add project administrator](/access-control/projects/manage/add-project-administrator.mdx) and [Add project viewer](/access-control/projects/manage/add-project-viewer.mdx).

## Selectel products that support working with projects \{#selectel-products-that-support-projects}

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        <th>Resources</th><th>Projects</th><th>Quotas and limits</th>
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    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <th rowspan="2">Dedicated Servers</th>

        <td>
          Dedicated server
        </td>

        <td>✓</td><td>✗</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <td>
          Dedicated server networks:

          <ul>
            <li>VLAN;</li><li>public and private subnets</li>
          </ul>
        </td>

        <td>✗</td><td>✗</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <th rowspan="2">Colocation</th>

        <td>
          <ul>
            <li>colocated server;</li><li>server rack</li>
          </ul>
        </td>

        <td>✓</td><td>✗</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <td>
          Colocated server networks:

          <ul>
            <li>VLAN;</li><li>public and private subnets</li>
          </ul>
        </td>

        <td>✗</td><td>✗</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <th>Cloud servers</th>

        <td>
          Cloud platform resources:

          <ul>
            <li>cloud server;</li><li>vCPU;</li><li>GPU;</li><li>RAM;</li><li>local disks;</li><li>network volumes;</li><li>snapshots;</li><li>placement groups;</li><li>custom image storage;</li><li>Project SSH keys;</li><li>public subnets;</li><li>private subnets;</li><li>direct public IP addresses;</li><li>public floating IP addresses;</li><li>load balancers;</li><li>cloud routers;</li><li>licenses;</li><li>backups;</li><li>firewalls</li>
          </ul>
        </td>

        <td>✓</td>

        <td>
          Quotas apply to:

          <ul>
            <li>vCPU;</li><li>GPU;</li><li>RAM;</li><li>local disks;</li><li>network volumes;</li><li>own images storage;</li><li>snapshots;</li><li>backups;</li><li>public subnets;</li><li>direct public IP addresses;</li><li>public floating IP addresses;</li><li>load balancers;</li><li>cloud routers</li>
          </ul>

          <br />

          No quotas apply to:

          <ul>
            <li>cloud server;</li><li>placement groups;</li><li>project SSH keys;</li><li>private subnets;</li><li>licenses;</li><li>firewalls</li>
          </ul>
        </td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <th>Secrets manager</th><td>Secrets</td><td>✓</td><td>✗</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <th>Certificate manager</th>

        <td>
          <ul>
            <li>custom certificates;</li><li>Let’s Encrypt® certificates</li>
          </ul>
        </td>

        <td>✓</td><td>✗</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <th>Managed databases</th>

        <td>
          Cloud platform resources:

          <ul>
            <li>DBaaS vCPU;</li><li>DBaaS RAM;</li><li>DBaaS local disks;</li><li>DBaaS dedicated cloud server;</li><li>DBaaS backups;</li><li>DBaaS public IP addresses;</li><li>public subnets;</li><li>private networks;</li><li>cloud routers</li>
          </ul>
        </td>

        <td>✓</td>

        <td>
          Quotas apply to:

          <ul>
            <li>DBaaS vCPU;</li><li>DBaaS RAM;</li><li>DBaaS local disks;</li><li>public subnets;</li><li>DBaaS public IP addresses;</li><li>cloud routers</li>
          </ul>

          <br />

          No quotas apply to:

          <ul>
            <li>DBaaS backups;</li><li>private networks;</li>
          </ul>
        </td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <th rowspan="3">Managed Kubernetes</th>

        <td>
          Cloud platform resources:

          <ul>
            <li>fault-tolerant Managed Kubernetes cluster;</li><li>basic Managed Kubernetes cluster;</li><li>vCPU;</li><li>GPU;</li><li>RAM;</li><li>local disks;</li><li>network volumes;</li><li>public subnets;</li><li>private networks;</li><li>public floating IP addresses;</li><li>load balancers;</li><li>cloud routers</li>
          </ul>
        </td>

        <td>✓</td>

        <td>
          Quotas apply to:

          <ul>
            <li>basic Managed Kubernetes cluster;</li><li>fault-tolerant Managed Kubernetes cluster.</li><li>vCPU;</li><li>GPU;</li><li>RAM;</li><li>local disks;</li><li>network volumes;</li><li>public subnets;</li><li>public floating IP addresses;</li><li>load balancers;</li><li>cloud routers</li>
          </ul>

          <br />

          No quotas apply to:

          <ul>
            <li>private networks;</li>
          </ul>
        </td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <td>
          Dedicated server
        </td>

        <td>✓</td><td>✗</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <td>
          Dedicated server networks:

          <ul>
            <li>VLAN;</li><li>public and private subnets</li>
          </ul>
        </td>

        <td>✗</td><td>✗</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <th>Container Registry</th>

        <td>
          Cloud platform resources:

          <ul>
            <li>storage capacity;</li><li>outgoing traffic</li>
          </ul>
        </td>

        <td>✓</td><td>✗</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <th>S3</th>

        <td>
          <ul>
            <li>storage capacity;</li><li>outgoing traffic;</li><li>API requests (GET, HEAD, PUT, POST, COPY requests)</li>
          </ul>
        </td>

        <td>✓</td><td>✗</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <th>File storage</th>

        <td>
          Cloud platform resources:

          <ul>
            <li>basic HDD file storage;</li><li>universal SSD file storage;</li><li>fast SSD file storage</li>
          </ul>
        </td>

        <td>✓</td><td>✓</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <th>DNS Hosting</th>

        <td>
          <ul>
            <li>zones;</li><li>resource records</li>
          </ul>
        </td>

        <td>✓</td><td>✗</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <th>Cloud for 1C</th>

        <td>
          Cloud for 1C resources:

          <ul>
            <li>information base</li>
          </ul>

          Cloud platform resources:

          <ul>
            <li>1C server cluster;</li><li>database cluster;</li><li>information base backups;</li><li>vCPU;</li><li>RAM;</li><li>local disks</li>
          </ul>
        </td>

        <td>✓</td>

        <td>
          Quotas apply to:

          <ul>
            <li>information base;</li><li>1C server cluster;</li><li>database cluster</li>
          </ul>

          <br />

          No quotas apply to:

          <ul>
            <li>information base backups;</li><li>vCPU;</li><li>RAM;</li><li>local disks</li>
          </ul>
        </td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <th>Mobile Farm</th><td>Mobile Farm devices</td><td>✓</td><td>✗</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
        <th>Foundation Models Catalog</th>

        <td>
          Cloud platform resources:

          <ul>
            <li>inference platform vCPU;</li><li>inference platform vCPU, HighFreq line;</li><li>inference platform RAM;</li><li>inference platform RAM, HighFreq line;</li><li>inference platform Fast SSD disks;</li><li>inference platform NVIDIA® A100 40GB GPU;</li><li>inference platform NVIDIA® A100 80GB GPU;</li><li>inference platform NVIDIA® A30 24GB GPU;</li><li>inference platform NVIDIA® A2 16GB GPU</li><li>inference platform NVIDIA® A2000 6GB GPU;</li><li>inference platform NVIDIA® A5000 24GB GPU;</li><li>inference platform NVIDIA® RTX 4090 24GB GPU;</li><li>inference platform NVIDIA® RTX 6000 Ada 48GB GPU;</li><li>inference platform NVIDIA® T4 16GB GPU</li>
          </ul>
        </td>

        <td>✓</td>

        <td>✓</td>
      </tr>
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