Overview
Note: Projects are available to all users, but managing project permissions requires the HCP Terraform Standard Edition. Refer to HCP Terraform pricing for details.
Projects let you organize your workspaces and scope access to workspace resources. Each project has a separate permissions set that you can use to grant teams access to all workspaces in the project, defining access control boundaries for teams and their resources. Project-level permissions are more granular than organization-level permissions, but more specific than individual workspace-level grants.
When deciding how to structure your projects, consider which groups of resources need distinct access rules. You may wish to define projects by business units, departments, subsidiaries, or technical teams.
Hands On: Try our Managing Projects tutorial.
Default Project
Every workspace must belong to exactly one project. By default, all workspaces belong to an organization's Default Project. You can rename the default project, but you cannot delete it. You can specify a workspace's project at the time of creation and move it to a different project later.
The “Manage Workspaces” team permission lets users create and manage workspaces. Users with this permission can read and manage all workspaces, but new workspaces are automatically added to the “Default Project” and users cannot access the metadata for other projects. To create workspaces under other projects, users also need the "Manage Projects & Workspaces" permission or the admin role for the project they wish to use.
Managing Projects
The "Manage all Projects" team permission lets users manage projects. Users with this permission can view, edit, delete, and assign team access to all of an organization's projects. Refer to Managing Projects for more details.