Teams are how you manage your billing and infrastructure on DigitalOcean. When you sign up for DigitalOcean, you are the only person on your default team.
You can work by yourself by remaining the only person on your team. You can also collaborate with others by inviting them to teams you own. Each team member has one of three team roles (owner, biller, or member) which determines their level of access to the team’s shared resources, billing information, and settings.
Your personal DigitalOcean account is where you manage your team membership and your name, sign-in method, and email subscriptions.
We have added three additional team roles: billing viewer, resource viewer, and modifier. These new predefined roles have more granular permissions that cover additional use cases. The three existing team roles (owner, biller, and member) are unchanged.
You can now also assign a role to teammates during invitation. Previously, new team members would join with the member role.
Team members with the biller role can no longer access information about shared resources. Previously, billers could access this information via the API, but not the control panel.
To continue improving collaboration on DigitalOcean, we have begun incrementally converting existing customers’ personal accounts to team accounts.
For more information, see the full release notes.