Admin Overview
The Admin area is the central management console in Dataflow, enabling administrators to configure, control, and oversee the platform’s operations, user access, and runtime settings.
What Can Admins Do?
1. Manage Users
Admins can:
- Add, edit, or remove users from the platform
- Assign users to specific teams and roles
- Control individual user permissions for accessing Studio, Runtime, or Admin features
2. Manage Teams and Roles
Admins can:
- Create and manage teams to organise users based on departments, projects, or responsibilities
- Define roles with specific access permissions to enforce security and efficient workflow management
3. Manage Studio Server Access
Admins can:
- Control which users or teams have access to the Studio environment
- Configure available server specifications and compute resources for different user groups
- Monitor server usage for cost and performance optimisation
4. Approve Python Environments
Admins oversee the lifecycle of Python environments created by users:
- Review and approve newly built environments before they are published for organisation-wide use
- Reject or revert environments back to draft if configurations do not meet organisational standards
- Ensure secure and compliant Python environment management
5. Manage Spark Servers
Admins can:
- Configure and manage Spark servers used across both Studio and Runtime
- Control access, resources, and project allocations for Spark-based workloads
- Monitor Spark server usage and performance to ensure optimal data processing capabilities
6. Runtime Settings
Admins can:
- Create and manage projects within different runtimes (e.g. Airflow, Spark, MLFlow) for various data workflows
- Define project-level configurations and metadata
- Manage global or project-specific variables, secrets, and connections to maintain security and flexibility across environments
Summary
The Admin console empowers platform administrators to:
- Control who can access what within Dataflow
- Manage and optimise compute resources for cost and performance efficiency
- Ensure secure management of environments, runtimes, variables, and secrets
- Oversee the organisation’s entire data infrastructure from a single interface
Explore the detailed documentation for each feature under the Admin section to unlock its full capabilities for your platform governance and operational excellence.