Workspaces

Organize and compartmentalize your workflows with Workspaces.

A workspace is a discrete environment within Prefect Cloud for your workflows and related information. For example, you can use separate workspaces to isolate dev, staging, and prod environments, or to provide separation between different teams.

Get started with workspaces

When you first log into Prefect Cloud, you are prompted to create your own workspace.

Select a workspace name in the navigation menu to see all workspaces you can access.

Your list of available workspaces may include:

• Your own account’s workspace.
• Workspaces in an account you’re invited to with Admin or Member access.

Your user permissions within workspaces may vary. Account admins can assign roles and permissions at the workspace level.

Create a workspace

On the Account settings dropdown, select the “Create a new workspace” button to create a new workspace.

Configure:

• The Workspace Owner from the dropdown account menu options.
• A unique Workspace Name must be unique within the account.
• An optional description for the workspace.

Select Create to create the new workspace. The number of available workspaces varies by Prefect Cloud plan. See Pricing if you need additional workspaces or users.

Deleting a workspace

Deleting a workspace deletes all of its data including deployments, flow run history, work pools, and automations.

Workspace access

Within a Prefect Cloud Pro or Custom tier account, workspace owners can invite other people as members, and provision service accounts to a workspace. A workspace owner assigns a workspace role to the user, and specifies the scope of permissions for the user within the workspace.

As a workspace owner, select Workspaces -> Sharing to manage members and service accounts for the workspace. Previously invited individuals or provisioned service accounts are listed here.

Invite members

To invite someone to an account, select the Members + icon. You can select from a list of existing account members.

Select a role for the user. This is the initial role for the user within the workspace. A workspace Owner can change this role at any time.

Select Send to initiate the invitation.

Invite service accounts

To add a service account to a workspace, select the service accounts + icon. You can select from a list of configured service accounts. Select a Workspace Role for the service account. This is the initial role for the service account within the workspace. A workspace owner can change this role at any time.

Select Share to finalize adding the service account.

Remove a member or service account

To remove a workspace member or service account, select Remove from the menu on the right side of the user or service account information on this page.

Transfer a workspace

Workspace transfer enables you to move an existing workspace from one account to another.

Workspace transfer retains existing workspace configuration and flow run history, including blocks, deployments, automations, work pools, and logs.

Workspace transfer permissions

You must have admin privileges to initiate or approve a workspace transfer.

To initiate a workspace transfer between personal accounts, contact [e-mail].

From the three dot menu in the upper right of the page, select Transfer.

The Transfer Workspace page shows the workspace to be transferred on the left. Select the target account for the workspace on the right.

Workspace transfer impact on accounts

Workspace transfer may impact resource usage and costs for source and target accounts.

When you transfer a workspace, users, API keys, and service accounts may lose access to the workspace. The audit log will no longer track activity on the workspace. Flow runs ending outside of the destination account’s flow run retention period will be removed. You may also need to update Prefect CLI profiles and execution environment settings to access the workspace’s new location.

You may incur new charges in the target account to accommodate the transferred workspace.