Manage access to cloud server images

Last update: December 25 2025

Access to images is governed by a role model that defines access within an account and project. For more information, see the Access Control in Selectel Products manual.

member

User with full access to all services. Does not have access to manage: users, service users, user groups and federations.

Access areas	Account; project
Who can be prescribed	Users; to service users; user groups
Available operations with images	In the Account access area: View a list of all images and information about them: image size, image format and container, minimum image requirements; creating or downloading images; image management; setting up shared access to images in projects from one account or from other accounts
	In the access area Project: View a list of all images and information about them: image size, image format and container, minimum image requirements; creating or downloading images; image management; setting up shared access to images in projects from one account or from other accounts

iam_admin

User with access to user management and without access to services and billing. Cannot manage his account: change permissions, manage notifications, delete the user. The first user with the iam_admin role is created by the Account Owner.

Access areas	Account
Who can be prescribed	Users; to service users; user groups
Available operations with images	Manage users, service users, user groups with access to images; federation management

reader

A user with access to view everything he controls member in the same access area.

Access areas	Account; project
Who can be prescribed	Users; to service users; user groups
Available operations with images	In the Account access area: View a list of all images and information about them: image size, image format and container, minimum image requirements
	In the access area Project: View a list of all images and information about them: image size, image format and container, minimum image requirements

compute.image.admin

User with access to image management. Does not have access to other products.

Access areas	Account; project
Who can be prescribed	Users; to service users; user groups
Available operations with images	In the Account access area: View a list of all images and information about them: image size, image format and container, minimum image requirements; creating or downloading images; image management; setting up shared access to images in projects from one account or from other accounts
	In the access area Project: View a list of all images and information about them: image size, image format and container, minimum image requirements; creating or downloading images; image management; setting up shared access to images in projects from one account or from other accounts

compute.image.user

User with access to image management. Does not have access to other products in his project and to images in other projects.

Access areas	Account; project
Who can be prescribed	Users; to service users; user groups
Available operations with images	In the Account access area: View a list of all images and information about them: image size, image format and container, minimum image requirements; creating or downloading images; image management
	In the access area Project: View a list of all images and information about them: image size, image format and container, minimum image requirements; creating or downloading images; image management

compute.image.viewer

User with access to view images. Does not have access to other products.

Access areas	Account; project
Who can be prescribed	Users; to service users; user groups
Available operations with images	In the Account access area: View a list of all images and information about them: image size, image format and container, minimum image requirements
	In the access area Project: View a list of all images and information about them: image size, image format and container, minimum image requirements