Project and Enterprise Project¶
Project¶
Projects in IAM are used to group and isolate OpenStack resources (computing resources, storage resources, and network resources). Resources in your account must be mounted under projects. A project can be a department or a project team. Multiple projects can be created under one account.
Enterprise Project¶
Enterprise projects are used to categorize and manage multiple resources. Resources of the same type can be put under an enterprise project. The use of enterprise projects does not affect the use of HSS.
You can classify resources by department or project group and put related resources into one enterprise project for management. Resources can be moved between enterprise projects.
Differences Between Projects and Enterprise Projects¶
IAM Project
Projects are used to categorize and physically isolate resources in a region. Resources in an IAM project cannot be transferred. They can only be deleted and then rebuilt.
Enterprise Project
Enterprise projects are upgraded based on IAM projects and used to categorize and manage resources of different projects of an enterprise. An enterprise project can contain resources of multiple regions, and resources can be added to or removed from enterprise projects. If you have enabled enterprise management, you cannot create an IAM project and can only manage existing projects. In the future, IAM projects will be replaced by enterprise projects, which are more flexible.
Both projects and enterprise projects can be managed by one or more user groups. Users who manage enterprise projects belong to user groups. After a policy is granted to a user group, users in the group can obtain the permissions defined in the policy in the project or enterprise project.