What’s involved in working with Projects in Tanzu Platform cloud services console

Tanzu Platform cloud services uses Projects as a way to group an Organization’s resources into distinct buckets and assign user and group access to the resources in each bucket. This allows Organization Owners to logically organize, map and track usage of their cloud services resources.

When you think of resources in Tanzu Platform cloud services, imagine pre-defined, measurable and logical segments of a specific service. By organizing the services resources in Projects, Organization Owner users can measure and track the usage of cloud services in their enterprise across departments or Cost Centers.

Important
Only a few Tanzu Platform cloud services have been enabled so far to use the Projects feature in Tanzu Platform cloud services console. To learn if a service you are using can utilize Projects for resource grouping purposes, consult the documentation for that service or contact VMware Support.

Let’s say you have two Projects in your Organization – Project 1 and Project 2, and three services – Service A, Service B, and Service C.

Services A and B are enabled for Project 1.
Services B and C are enabled for Project 2.

The resource grouping of the enabled services allows resources of service B to be used in both Projects, while resources of service A and service C are used in one Project each.

How do I create a Project in Tanzu Platform cloud services console

To set up and manage Projects, you must have an Organization Owner or a Project Administrator role in the Organization. You set up a new Project from the Identity and Access Management > Projects in Tanzu Platform cloud services console.

There are three steps involved in setting up a new Project:

Define a name for the new Project.

Your new Project will remain empty until the services you plan to use with it are enabled.
View the enabled services and resources for your Project.

You know a service is enabled for your Project if it is listed under the Enabled Services section and resources are listed in the Resources table.
Assign users, group, and/or OAuth app access to the new Project.

How do I delete a Project from my Organization

You can delete a Project only if these two conditions are met:

The Project does not have enabled services and resources associated with it.
Users and/or groups do not have access permissions assigned for the Project.

Parent topic:Identity & Access Management