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title: Project APIs
---

# Project APIs {#project-apis}

## Project \[project.openshift.io/v1\] {#_project_projectopenshiftiov1}

Description
:   Projects are the unit of isolation and collaboration in OpenShift. A project has one or more members, a quota on the resources that the project may consume, and the security controls on the resources in the project. Within a project, members may have different roles - project administrators can set membership, editors can create and manage the resources, and viewers can see but not access running containers. In a normal cluster project administrators are not able to alter their quotas - that is restricted to cluster administrators.

    Listing or watching projects will return only projects the user has the reader role on.

    An OpenShift project is an alternative representation of a Kubernetes namespace. Projects are exposed as editable to end users while namespaces are not. Direct creation of a project is typically restricted to administrators, while end users should use the requestproject resource.

    Compatibility level 1: Stable within a major release for a minimum of 12 months or 3 minor releases (whichever is longer).

Type
:   ```
    `object`
    ```

## ProjectRequest \[project.openshift.io/v1\] {#_projectrequest_projectopenshiftiov1}

Description
:   ProjectRequest is the set of options necessary to fully qualify a project request

    Compatibility level 1: Stable within a major release for a minimum of 12 months or 3 minor releases (whichever is longer).

Type
:   ```
    `object`
    ```