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If you need help, visit our fundamentals area on [GitLab University](https://university.gitlab.com/).\n\nLet's get started.\n\nWhen you create GitLab users, they only have access to [their private projects, public projects, and projects set with internal visibility](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/public_access.html). For the purposes of this tutorial, your project is super secret and only invited members should have access to it – at varying permissions settings. To ensure this, you can invite users as [members of the project](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/members/).\n\n## Project members\n\n![Project members screen](https://res.cloudinary.com/about-gitlab-com/image/upload/v1750097278/Blog/Content%20Images/Blog/Content%20Images/image1_aHR0cHM6_1750097278487.png)\n\nGitLab users can be invited to a project and [assigned a role](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/permissions.html), which determines what they can do in the project. 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You can have a `dev` group for the developers of the team, `pm` group for the project managers and `leads` for team leads. When inviting the groups, `dev` can be assigned the Developer role, `pm` the Planner role, and `leads` the Maintainer role. \n\n![Invite a group screen](https://res.cloudinary.com/about-gitlab-com/image/upload/v1750097279/Blog/Content%20Images/Blog/Content%20Images/image3_aHR0cHM6_1750097278488.png)\n\nMembers of each group can be can be added or removed without needing to update project permissions. This is particularly useful when your team has grown to have several projects. 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Note: You can not give them a lower role in the subgroup.\n\n### Manage groups\n\nGroup Owners have several management options to determine how users function in a group. For instance, you can set how a user can request access to a group, enable/disable [group mentions](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/manage.html#disable-group-mentions), [restrict access](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/manage.html#turn-on-restricted-access), or [moderate users](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/moderate_users.html), among other options. An exciting new feature, which is still under development at the time of this article's publication, is the [automatic removal of dormant users](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/moderate_users.html#automatically-remove-dormant-members) after a minimum of 90 days and a maximum of five years. This will help keep groups clean and better manage the release of license seats.\n\n## Learn more\n\nManaging users on GitLab depends on your use case. If your organization is larger with more advanced workflows and user management, GitLab provides more advanced ways to [manage enterprise users](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/enterprise_user/index.html). You can also explore more options on how to [manage your organization](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/set_up_organization.html) and with [GitLab Ultimate](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/ultimate/), you get more granularity and compliance features.\n\n> #### Want to take your learning to the next level? [Sign up for GitLab University courses](https://university.gitlab.com/). 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For teams already managing multi-registry container workflows, it centralizes image management into GitLab and cuts down on repeated pulls.\n\n**What the beta supports today**\n\n* Upstream registries using long-lived token authentication: Docker Hub, Harbor, Quay, and other compatible registries  \n* Pull-through caching so commonly used images are served from GitLab after the first pull  \n* API-first configuration, with UI management in progress++\n\nCloud provider registries requiring IAM authentication (such as Amazon Elastic Container Registry, Google Artifact Registry, and Azure Container Registry) are being considered for future iterations.\n\n**Test it today**\n\n* The Container Virtual Registry is API-ready in 18.9.  \n* SaaS (GitLab.com): Request access through your CSM or by commenting on the feedback issue below to have the feature flag enabled for your group.  \n* Self-managed: Enable the feature flag and configure the virtual registry using the API.\n\n**Documentation**\n\n* [Container Virtual Registry API](https://docs.gitlab.com/api/container_virtual_registries/)  \n* [Pull container images from the virtual registry](https://docs.gitlab.com/user/packages/virtual_registry/container/#pull-container-images-from-the-virtual-registry)\n\n\n Watch this walkthrough of the Container Virtual Registry Beta:\n   \n\n  \u003Ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/1167512082?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"20260223_Container Virtual Registry Beta_V1\">\u003C/iframe>\u003C\u003Cscript src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js\">\u003C/script>\n\n  \u003Cbr>\u003C/br>\n\n\n\n**Share your feedback:**\n\n* [Container virtual registry feedback issue](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/589630)\n\n## Help us build what matters\n\nEveryone in the GitLab community is a contributor. 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