--- title: "Managing users and projects in Managed Rancher Service" description: "Find out how to manage users and projects in your OVHcloud Managed Rancher Service" url: https://docs.ovhcloud.com/es/guides/public-cloud/containers-orchestration/managed-rancher-service/managing-users-projects lang: es lastUpdated: 2024-09-11 --- # Managing users and projects in Managed Rancher Service ## Objective Managed Rancher Service by OVHcloud provides a powerful platform for orchestrating Kubernetes clusters seamlessly. This guide will explain how to manage users and projects on your OVHcloud Managed Rancher Service. ## Requirements - A [Public Cloud project](https://www.ovhcloud.com/es-es/public-cloud/) in your OVHcloud account - An OVHcloud Managed Rancher Service (see the [creating a Managed Rancher Service](/es/guides/public-cloud/containers-orchestration/managed-rancher-service/creation.md) guide for more information) - An access to the Rancher UI to operate it (see the [connecting to the Rancher UI](/es/guides/public-cloud/containers-orchestration/managed-rancher-service/creation.md) guide for more information) ## Instructions You can manage projects, users and rights on your Managed Rancher Service by using the Rancher UI. ### Creating a new user Log in to your Managed Rancher Service UI. ![Rancher UI Homepage](/images/public-cloud/containers-orchestration/managed-rancher-service/managing-users-and-projects/rancher-ui.png) In the menu, click on `Users & Authentication `. ![Rancher UI Homepage](/images/public-cloud/containers-orchestration/managed-rancher-service/managing-users-and-projects/rancher-menu.png) A list of existing users is displayed. You should have at least a `Default Admin` user. To create a new user, click on the `Create ` button. ![Rancher UI Users](/images/public-cloud/containers-orchestration/managed-rancher-service/managing-users-and-projects/rancher-user.png) Fill in the username, a new password and confirm the password. You can also optionally enter a display name and a description. ![Rancher UI SRE User](/images/public-cloud/containers-orchestration/managed-rancher-service/managing-users-and-projects/rancher-sre.png) :::warning The password needs to have at least 12 characters. ::: Rancher has several levels of global permissions. If your user needs rights to create and managed new clusters, you can choose `Standard User` global permission. ![Rancher UI Standard User](/images/public-cloud/containers-orchestration/managed-rancher-service/managing-users-and-projects/rancher-standard-user.png) Please refer to the official documentation to know more about [global permissions](https://ranchermanager.docs.rancher.com/how-to-guides/new-user-guides/authentication-permissions-and-global-configuration/manage-role-based-access-control-rbac/global-permissions). Once you chose the initial permission, if you want fine-grained built-in roles, click the `Create ` button. ![Rancher UI Standard Users](/images/public-cloud/containers-orchestration/managed-rancher-service/managing-users-and-projects/rancher-standard-user.png) The user has been created. ### Creating a new project A project in Rancher is a group of Kubernetes namespaces. Projects allow you to manage multiple namespaces as a group and perform Kubernetes operations in them. You can use projects to support multi-tenancy, so that a team can access a project within a cluster without having access to other projects in the same cluster. In terms of hierarchy: - Clusters contain projects. - Projects contain namespaces. In Kubernetes, features like Role-Based Access Rights (RBAC) or cluster resources are assigned to individual namespaces. A project allows you to save time by giving an individual or a team access to multiple namespaces simultaneously. Let's create a project: Log in to your Managed Rancher Service UI. ![Rancher UI Homepage](/images/public-cloud/containers-orchestration/managed-rancher-service/managing-users-and-projects/rancher-ui.png) Click on the name of your choosen Kubernetes cluster. In the **Cluster** menu, click on `Projects/Namespaces `. ![Rancher UI Homepage](/images/public-cloud/containers-orchestration/managed-rancher-service/managing-users-and-projects/rancher-cluster.png) You can see that our example cluster has several existing projects: `Default` and `System`. The Default project contains the default namespace and there are several namespaces that are not in a project. You will create a project that will contain several namespaces for a special team in your company. Click the `Create Project ` button. Enter the name of the project then click the `Add ` button to add a member to the `sre` project. ![Rancher UI Project](/images/public-cloud/containers-orchestration/managed-rancher-service/managing-users-and-projects/rancher-project.png) Select the user `sre` you previously created and select the project permissions. You can select the `Member` permission if you want a user that can manage the resources inside the project but not the project itself. ![Rancher UI Project SRE](/images/public-cloud/containers-orchestration/managed-rancher-service/managing-users-and-projects/rancher-sre-user.png) Then click the `Add ` button to add the member to the project. Finally, click the `Create ` button to create the project. To move the existing wanted namespaces in your `sre` project, click on the three dots button and click on `Move `. ![Rancher UI Project SRE](/images/public-cloud/containers-orchestration/managed-rancher-service/managing-users-and-projects/rancher-falco.png) Select the project then click the `Move ` button to move the `falco` namepace in your project. You can do the same thing for all of the namespaces you want. ![Rancher UI Project SRE project](/images/public-cloud/containers-orchestration/managed-rancher-service/managing-users-and-projects/rancher-project-ns.png) ### Go further To have an overview of OVHcloud Managed Rancher Service, you can go to the [OVHcloud Managed Rancher Service page](https://www.ovhcloud.com/es-es/public-cloud/managed-rancher-service/). Follow the offical documentation from Rancher to know more about: - [Projects](https://ranchermanager.docs.rancher.com/how-to-guides/new-user-guides/manage-clusters/projects-and-namespaces) - [Adding users to projects](https://ranchermanager.docs.rancher.com/how-to-guides/new-user-guides/add-users-to-projects) - [Users global permissions](https://ranchermanager.docs.rancher.com/how-to-guides/new-user-guides/authentication-permissions-and-global-configuration/manage-role-based-access-control-rbac/global-permissions) Our team remains available on our dedicated Discord Channel, do not hesitate to join and reach us : [https://discord.gg/ovhcloud](https://discord.gg/ovhcloud). Ask questions, provide feedback and interact directly with the team that builds our Container and Orchestration services. Join our [community of users](https://community.ovhcloud.com/).