Managing Your Account

Personal accounts

Overview

This section explains how to create a free or personal account, log in and out, and access the settings and features of different types of accounts.

Create free account

Free account features

All Anaconda Cloud users can find, download and use packages without creating a subscriber account. Subscribers can upload packages, notebooks and environments, and they get a 4-node cluster license free of charge. They can also create organizations.

Free Anaconda Cloud accounts and organizations have the following limitations:

  • There is only one build queue available to free users, and it builds packages only for Linux-64 machines, not OS X or Windows.
  • Builds run as capacity is available in this shared public queue.

You’ll need to create an Anaconda Cloud account to:

  • author packages
  • access shared private packages

To sign up for a free account:

  • In a browser, go to Anaconda Cloud.
  • Make sure the Sign Up tab is active. NOTE: There’s also a Sign In tab for existing users. Anaconda Cloud home page
  • Select a username.
  • Enter your email address. NOTE: Users who register with an .edu email are granted a few additional features.
  • Create a password. NOTE: The password must be at least 7 characters long.
  • Enter the password again to confirm it.
  • Read and accept the Terms and Conditions.
  • Click the Sign up button. The system creates your free account, logs you in, and displays your personal Dashboard.

TIP: Anaconda Cloud displays your profile photo if the email address you used to register on Anaconda Cloud is associated with a Gravatar account. Go to gravatar.com to associate your email address or to change your Gravatar profile photo.

While you’re logged in, at the top right of each page in Anaconda Cloud, the user toolbar displays. Anaconda Cloud user toolbar

From left to right, the user toolbar options are:

  1. User Profile Settings label and button
  2. Add a package button
  3. Dashboard button. NOTE: When logged in, you can also click the Anaconda Cloud logo to reach your Dashboard.
  4. User Settings button
  5. Log Out button

Packages that you have created with this account appear on your Dashboard. There’s a handy button to create a new package.

See Also: Working with Packages

Reset password

The Sign In screen offers two links to help regain access to your account:

  • I forgot my username. Click this link to have the username emailed to the email address of record.
  • I forgot my password. Click this link to have a reset password link sent to the email address of record. NOTE: The reset password link expires within 24 hours. If you no longer have access to the email account, you can create a new account or email support@continuum.io for assistance.

Upgrade or downgrade plan

  • Log in to your Anaconda Cloud account.
  • Select the gear icon in the toolbar to access User Settings.
  • Select Billing.
  • Click the Change Plan button. The system displays detailed information about your plan.

NOTE: If you need more private packages or storage space than is included in the Personal plan, contact Continuum Analytics so we can customize a plan for you.

NOTE: If you need assistance with billing questions, please contact Continuum Analytics.

Create organization

To create an organization:

  • Log in to Anaconda Cloud.
  • Click the User Settings (gear) icon in the toolbar.
  • Select the Organizations option. The system displays Organizations settings.
  • Click the Create a new organization button. The system displays the Create a New Organization screen.
  • Supply an organization name. NOTE: Organization names cannot include spaces or special characters.
  • Supply an email address, then click the Create Organization button. The system displays the dashboard for the new organization.

As the creator and owner of an organization, you have automatic administrative access to this organization and any packages associated with the organization.

The Organization Settings screen shows a list of all organizations to which you belong.

NOTE: The Organization Settings screen only lists organizations for which you are an administrator, and will not display organizations for which you are a user but not an administrator.

Delete an organization

To delete an organization you administer and erase all data associated with it:

  • Select User Settings in the toolbar.
  • Click the Account option. The system displays the Account Settings screen.
  • Select the appropriate organization from the dropdown menu on the right.
  • Under the Delete Account? section, click the Delete button. The system displays a confirmation screen.

Customize users and groups

Administrators may add, remove or edit group and user access. To access these features, choose User Settings from the toolbar, then click the Groups option. The system displays the Groups Settings:

You can also navigate directly to the settings for an organization you manage from the drop-down menu on the right.

After switching from your user view to an organization view, you can review and edit the current group and user access for an organization, as well as add new groups and users:

https://anaconda.org/organization/<OrgName>/settings/groups/

Users will receive a dashboard notification when you add them to an organization.

Customizable groups for differing access levels

Within an organization, you can create a group to customize access for a group of users:

  • From your dashboard, choose the User Settings (gear icon) from the toolbar.
  • Select the Organizations option.
  • Select the Settings link next to the organization’s name.
  • Select the Groups option.
  • Click the +New Group button. Give the group a name, and assign the desired permissions (Read-Only, Read-Write, or Administration).
  • Click the Save Group button.

Customize per-package access by group

Organization administrators can give groups access to a package.

  • From your dashboard, choose the User Settings (gear icon) from the toolbar.
  • Select the Organizations option. NOTE: The Groups function is only available under an Organization profile settings, and is not available under an individual’s profile settings.
  • Select an organization you administer by clicking on the organization name. The system shows packages associated with that organization.
  • Select the package you want to share with the group by clicking on the package name. The system shows options for managing that package.
  • Click Settings to access Package Settings.
  • Click the Collaborators option. The system displays any groups that have access to the package.
  • Click Add Group to create a new group, or enter the existing Group’s name and click the Add button.

Add a collaborator to a package

You can add other users to collaborate on your packages. You’ll need to know the username of the other user(s).

  • From your dashboard (or the dashboard of an organization you administer), select the package for which you want to add a collaborator by clicking on its name.
  • Click the Settings option. The system displays package settings.
  • Click the Collaborators option.
  • Enter the username of the person you want to add as a collaborator and Click the Add button.

Remove a collaborator from a package

To revoke package access previously granted to a collaborator:

  • From your dashboard (or the dashboard of an organization you administer), select the package for which you want to add a collaborator by clicking on its name.
  • Click the Settings option. The system displays package settings.
  • Click the Collaborators option. The system shows current collaborators.
  • Click the red X button next to a collaborator to revoke their access.

Transfer a package to a new owner

By default, when you create or add packages, they are attached to your individual profile. You can transfer ownership to another owner account you control; for example, to an Organization profile you manage. To transfer a package to a new owner:

  • From your dashboard (or the dashboard of an organization you administer), select the package for which you want to transfer ownership. The system displays options for that package.
  • Click the Settings option. The system displays package settings.
  • Click the Admin option.
  • Under Transfer this package to a new owner, click the Transfer button.
  • Select the organization name for the new owner and click the Transfer Ownership button.

Academic Accounts

Overview

Anaconda Cloud is free for academic users. Users who subscribe to Anaconda Cloud with an email address from an .edu domain are automatically granted access to add-ons, including IOPro, MKL and Anaconda Accelerate.

If you need assistance with an academic account, email us at support@continuum.io.

Organization Accounts

Subscribers - in both free and paid accounts - can create Anaconda Cloud organizations. Create an organization to:

  • Share packages, environments or notebooks under an organization’s account rather than your personal account
  • Assign multiple account administrators
  • Assign different access permissions to groups of users and customize per-package access by group
  • Host more, larger packages. See our pricing for details.

Free vs. paid Organization Features

In a free plan, organizations have the following limitations:

  • No private packages allowed
  • Build packages for Linux-64 with the public queue on Anaconda Cloud

In a paid plan, organizations can:

  • Host up to 100 private packages
  • Use up to 100 GB of Storage
  • Configure build workers and attach them to private build queue(s) - build your own cross-platform packages

See our pricing for details.