Documentation for Bamboo 4.2.x. Documentation for other versions of Bamboo is available too.

Bamboo provides several options for user management:

Note that this information does not relate to application-level security for Bamboo. If you are looking for information on security of the Bamboo application, please refer to the Security page.

About users and authors

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Depending on your organisation's needs, you can configure Bamboo to grant access to non-users. However, only Bamboo users can:

About groups

Bamboo groups are used to specify which users will have global permissions and plan permissions. They can also be used to specify which users will receive notifications about a plan's build results. You can create and delete as many groups as you need. You will typically create at least one group per project.

A special group called bamboo-admin is automatically created when you install Bamboo. Members of this group have Bamboo administration rights.

About permissions

A plan permission is the ability to perform a particular operation on a plan and its jobs. For each plan, different permissions can be granted to particular groups and/or users. A global permission is the ability to perform a particular operation in relation to Bamboo as a whole.