Manage data governance and access control

Use protected aliases to represent key stages of your model development pipeline. Only Model Registry Administrators can add, modify, or remove protected aliases. Model registry admins can define and use protected aliases. W&B blocks non admin users from adding or removing protected aliases from model versions.

For example, suppose you set staging and production as protected aliases. Any member of your team can add new model versions. However, only admins can add a staging or production alias.

Set up access control

The following steps describe how to set up access controls for your team’s model registry.

1. Navigate to the W&B Model Registry app at https://wandb.ai/registry/model.
2. Select the gear button on the top right of the page.
3. Select the Manage registry admins button.
4. Within the Members tab, select the users you want to grant access to add and remove protected aliases from model versions.

Add protected aliases

1. Navigate to the W&B Model Registry app at https://wandb.ai/registry/model.
2. Select the gear button on the top right of the page.
3. Scroll down to the Protected Aliases section.
4. Click on the plus icon (+) icon to add new a new alias.