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Manage Project Access

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  • Create a Project
  • View Projects
  • Move a Project
  • Delete a Project

Groups are now projects in the organizations and projects hierarchy.

You can create multiple projects in an organization.

By having multiple projects within an organization, you can:

  • Isolate different environments (for instance, development/qa/prod environments) from each other.

  • Associate different users or teams with different environments, or give different permissions to users in different environments.

  • Maintain separate cluster security configurations. For example:

    • Create/manage different sets of database user credentials for each project.

    • Isolate networks in different VPCs.

  • Create different alert settings. For example, configure alerts for Production environments differently than Development environments.

Create a Project

Prerequisites

To create a project for an organization, you must be either an Organization Owner or an Organization Project Creator.

When you create a project, you are added as an Project Owner for the project.

Procedure

To create a new project using the Atlas CLI, run the following command:

atlas projects create <projectName> [options]

To learn more about the command syntax and parameters, see the Atlas CLI documentation for atlas projects create.

Tip

See: Related Links

To create a project for an organization using the Atlas UI:

1

In Atlas, go to the Projects page for your organization.

  1. If it's not already displayed, select your desired organization from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

  2. Do one of the following steps:

    • Click the Leaf icon in the upper left corner of the page.

    • Click the Organization Settings icon next to the Organizations menu, then click Projects in the sidebar.

    • Expand the Projects menu in the navigation bar, then click View All Projects.

    The Projects page displays.

2

Go to the Create a Project page.

Do one of the following steps:

  • Click New Project.

  • Expand the Projects menu in the navigation bar, then click + New Project.

3

Name your new project.

  1. Enter the name for your new project.

    Important

    The project name has the following limits:

    • Can't exceed 64 characters.

    • Restricted to letters, numbers, spaces, dashes, and underscores.

    Don't include sensitive information in your project name.

  2. Click Next.

4

Add members.

  1. For existing Atlas users, enter their username. Usually, this is the email the person used to register.

  2. For new Atlas users, enter their email address to send an invitation.

5

Specify the access for the members.

6

Click Create Project.

View Projects

Prerequisites

To view a project, you must either:

Important

Project Invitation Deprecation

The Atlas release on September 13, 2023 deprecates project invitations.

When you invite an organization member to projects within the organization, the user is automatically granted access to those projects and doesn't receive any invitations. When you invite a user to projects in an organization that the user doesn't belong to, the user receives a single invitation to the organization, which includes access to all of the projects that you grant them access to. Invitations expire after 30 days.

Procedure

To list all projects using the Atlas CLI, run the following command:

atlas projects list [options]

To return the details for the project you specify using the Atlas CLI, run the following command:

atlas projects describe <ID> [options]

To learn more about the syntax and parameters for the previous commands, see the Atlas CLI documentation for atlas projects list and atlas projects describe.

Tip

See: Related Links

To view projects in the Atlas UI:

1

In Atlas, go to the Projects page for your organization.

  1. If it's not already displayed, select your desired organization from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

  2. Do one of the following steps:

    • Click the Leaf icon in the upper left corner of the page.

    • Click the Organization Settings icon next to the Organizations menu, then click Projects in the sidebar.

    • Expand the Projects menu in the navigation bar, then click View All Projects.

    The Projects page displays.

A Backup Compliance Policy icon appears next to each project name that has a Backup Compliance Policy enabled.

Move a Project

When you move a project to another Atlas organization, Atlas copies the project users and their respective roles to the same project in the destination organization. However, Atlas doesn't carryover teams assigned to the project because you define teams at the organization level.

When you move projects across organizations, your changes take effect immediately. The move doesn't:

  • Impact cluster uptime or current cluster configuration.

  • Cause downtime for your cluster or changes to your connection string.

Important

Atlas removes existing API Keys after moving the project. You must create a new API Key after moving the project.

Atlas does not migrate any existing App Services applications to the project in the new organization. After you move the project, your applications remain, but certain services such as Triggers and Device Sync might not be supported. To use your applications again, you must copy the application's configuration files and port them to the new project.

Prerequisites

To move a project to another Atlas organization, you must be an Organization Owner for both the current and the destination organization.

Procedure

To move a project for an organization:

1

In Atlas, go to the Projects page for your organization.

  1. If it's not already displayed, select your desired organization from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

  2. Do one of the following steps:

    • Click the Leaf icon in the upper left corner of the page.

    • Click the Organization Settings icon next to the Organizations menu, then click Projects in the sidebar.

    • Expand the Projects menu in the navigation bar, then click View All Projects.

    The Projects page displays.

2

Select the project you want to move.

For the project you want to move:

  1. Click .

  2. Click Move Project.

The Move Project dialog box appears.

3

Select the target organization. Click Next: Confirm to go to the confirmation screen.

4

Click Confirm & Move.

Note

Billing a Moved Project

An Organization Owner of two different Organizations can move projects between those Organizations at any time. Usage in any particular project during any particular hour is accrued to the Organization under which the project was at that time.

For example, an Organization Owner owns the Telecomm and Storage Organizations in Atlas. They decide to move their Backup project from Telecomm to Storage at 11:40 am.

The Telecomm project is billed for the full 11:00 to 11:59 am hour. Storage starts getting billed at 12:00 pm.

Delete a Project

Note

If you have a Backup Compliance Policy enabled, you can't delete the project if any snashots exist.

Prerequisites

Procedure

To delete a project using the Atlas CLI, run the following command:

atlas projects delete <ID> [options]

To learn more about the command syntax and parameters, see the Atlas CLI documentation for atlas projects delete.

Tip

See: Related Links

To delete a project for an organization using the Atlas UI, you can delete from the organization's Projects view or the project's Project Setting view.

To delete a project from the organization's Projects view:

1

In Atlas, go to the Projects page for your organization.

  1. If it's not already displayed, select your desired organization from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

  2. Do one of the following steps:

    • Click the Leaf icon in the upper left corner of the page.

    • Click the Organization Settings icon next to the Organizations menu, then click Projects in the sidebar.

    • Expand the Projects menu in the navigation bar, then click View All Projects.

    The Projects page displays.

2

For the project you want to delete, click .

3

Click Delete Project.

4

If Manage Your Multi-Factor Authentication Options is enabled, enter the verification code.

After verifying, click Delete Project again.

To delete from the project's Project Setting view:

1

In Atlas, go to the Project Settings page.

  1. If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

  2. If it's not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.

  3. Next to the Projects menu, expand the Options menu, then click Project Settings.

    The Project Settings page displays.

2

In the Delete Project section, click Delete.

3

Click Delete Project to confirm.

4

If Manage Your Multi-Factor Authentication Options is enabled, enter the verification code.

After verifying, click Delete Project again.

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