Cloud Account Lifecycle Management (CALM) is the process by which projects and accounts are provisioned and eventually deprovisioned throughout a lifecycle. The type of lifecycle which is tied to the type of allocation given the PI/group by CCDB/the Alliance. Upon provisioning a cloud project, CCDB accounts are given roles which provide access the project on the cloud infrastructure ‘Local’ accounts are used within VMs and outside the scope of CALM [[Category:Cloud]]