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Steps
(Requires Portainer Business Edition) Create teams under the Users section to group users for access control
Pair a user or team with a built-in role — Environment administrator, Operator, Helpdesk, Standard User, Read-Only User, Edge administrator, or Namespace Operator (Kubernetes only)
Associate that user/team-role pairing with a specific environment or environment group under that environment's access configuration
Repeat per environment, since a single user or team can hold different roles across different environments
Verify effective permissions via User-related → Roles → Effective access viewer, selecting a user to see their resolved access per environment
Known gotchas
Granular RBAC (custom teams/roles/policies) is a Business Edition feature — Community Edition only distinguishes global Administrator from ordinary users
Docker does not natively support RBAC, so Portainer implements its own role/permission layer for Docker/Swarm; on Kubernetes, Portainer instead layers its roles on top of native Kubernetes RBAC
The Team Leader role is intended only for internal-authentication setups and is disabled once external authentication (LDAP/OAuth) is enabled
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