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How to Manage a Project

How to Manage a Project

This guide explains how to manage projects in meshStack, including user access, environments, tags, and financials.

1. Overview​

A project in meshStack represents a logical environment (such as development, testing, or production) within a workspace. Projects help you separate resources, manage access, and track costs for different teams or applications.

2. User Access Management​

  • Add or remove users: Assign users or groups to a project to control who can access its resources.
  • Assign project roles: Set roles such as Project Member or Project Admin to define permissions within the project.
  • Review access: Regularly review project membership to ensure only authorized users have access.

3. Environment Management​

  • Create environments: Use projects to represent different environments (e.g., dev, test, prod) for your application or service.
  • Configure settings: Adjust project-specific settings, such as quotas, tags, and platform connections, to match the needs of each environment.

4. Tagging and Organizational Context​

  • Apply tags: Add tags to projects for cost allocation, compliance, and reporting.
  • Tag replication: Ensure important tags are replicated to platform resources for consistent metadata.

5. Financial Management​

  • View project costs: Access cost and usage reports for each project to monitor spending.
  • Budgeting: Set budgets or alerts for projects to avoid overspending.
  • Cost allocation: Use project structure and tags to allocate costs to teams, applications, or business units.

6. Additional Project Management Tasks​

  • Connect platforms: Link cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) to your project for resource provisioning.
  • Audit and compliance: Review activity logs and ensure your project meets organizational policies.
  • Update project details: Edit project name, description, and tags as needed.
  • Archive or delete projects: When a project is no longer needed, archive or delete it according to your organization's policy.

Summary​

Managing a project in meshStack involves controlling user access, organizing environments, applying tags, and monitoring financials. Use the project management features to keep your cloud resources secure, organized, and cost-effective.