Every large project is a result of the joint effort of multiple people. However, different team members working in a single user account is not an efficient workflow and can cause numerous problems (including security issues). MightyBox provides a reliable account collaboration feature that facilitates joint development and management, ensuring successful and efficient collaboration.
The core idea is straightforward – one user (primary account) hosts all the necessary environments and can share required components with required permissions to others (collaboration members). The most distinct benefits of the process are efficient resource utilization and extreme management flexibility. There is no need to create environment duplicates for different members – MightyBox’s collaboration allows sharing required instances to as many users as needed. Complete control over the shared management permissions makes the feature suitable for most of the existing use cases.
The primary account has full access to all hosted environments regardless of whether they are shared or not (including ones created by collaboration members). It is responsible for managing collaboration and its members – inviting users, adjusting shared components, specifying roles and permissions, etc. However, be aware that all charges for the shared environments (including actions performed by collaborators) are applied to this account.
Collaboration members are accounts that have accepted a collaboration invite from the primary account. The members are not charged for the shared environments and can work with them just as with regular ones. However, the list of allowed actions is defined and managed by the primary account (or other collaborators with the appropriate permission).
If provided with sufficient permissions, a member can create new environments on the primary collaboration account. In such a case, limitations (quotas) of the primary account will be considered, allowing to bypass any restrictions of the member’s account. Once again, all charges for the environment usage will be applied to the primary account.