Skip to main content Organization The top-level entity that owns billing, clusters, teams, and policies. Admins manage organization-wide settings and resources.
Team A logical grouping of members who share resources such as shared volumes and cost controls. Teams enable collaboration within an organization.
Admin An organization-level role with permissions to manage members, teams, volumes, billing, and policies. Admins have organization-wide scope.
Member A user role with permissions to create and use workspaces, use team volumes, and accept team invites. Members operate within their assigned teams.
Workspace An isolated, containerized environment with GPU/CPU where you develop and run code. You can open Jupyter notebooks or connect using SSH in a workspace.
Volume A persistent storage resource managed by VESSL. Volumes can be attached to workspaces to store data, datasets, models, and artifacts.
Workspace volume A persistent volume attached 1:1 to a single workspace. Data persists across restarts and pauses of that workspace. Typically PVC-backed with read-write-once (RWO) semantics.
Shared volume An S3-backed, POSIX-compatible volume that can be shared across teams and multiple workspaces. Shared volumes use read-write-many (RWX) semantics for concurrent access.
Temporary volume An ephemeral volume created alongside a workspace session. Data is cleared when the workspace stops or terminates.
Cluster The compute backend that schedules GPU/CPU resources for your workspaces. Clusters provide the infrastructure for running workspaces.
Jupyter Notebook An interactive environment for writing and running code cells. On VESSL, Jupyter runs inside a workspace and is accessible in the browser.
SSH Secure Shell protocol for terminal access to your workspace. Useful for CLI workflows and advanced debugging.
Connect The workspace tab from which you open Jupyter or fetch SSH connection instructions.
Billing states Workspaces have three billing states that affect cost:
Running : compute is billed while the workspace is activePaused : compute is stopped; workspace volume charges may still applyTerminated : the workspace is deleted; no further charges accrue
GPU Graphics Processing Unit. VESSL provides on-demand access to GPU instances for machine learning workloads.
Docker A container platform for packaging and running workspace environments. Docker images help ensure consistent environments across teams and projects. 