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Open an account

An account is your isolated HomeCloud workspace. Buckets, queues, databases, apps, and Access Keys all live inside it.

Self-service signup

If public signup is enabled on your platform:

  1. Open https://console.{apex}/open-account (also linked from the Sign in page).
  2. Enter your email and request a verification code.
  3. Enter the 6-digit OTP from the email.
  4. Choose an account name, username, and password. The account slug is derived from the name.
  5. You land in the console as the account owner.

Signup creates a bare tenant: the account plus your owner user. No buckets, databases, or apps are created automatically — you add them when you need them.

Join an existing account (invite)

  1. Open the invite link from email (/invite/...).
  2. Sign in or create your user as prompted.
  3. Accept the invite. Your console role (Owner / Admin / Developer / Viewer) is set by whoever invited you.

Owners and admins invite people later under Account → Members (or IAM → Users, depending on your console version).

Sign in

  1. Go to https://console.{apex}/login.
  2. Enter account identifier (account number or alias), username, and password.
  3. Complete MFA if it is enabled for your user (TOTP or passkey).

After login you see the dashboard. If you belong to several accounts, use the account switcher in the top bar.

First things to do after signup

Step Why
Enable MFA on your owner user Protects console access
Invite teammates with the right role Viewer cannot change resources; Developer can build
Create an Access Key Needed for CLI / SDK / CI
Skim Using the console Learn where each service lives

CLI: list and switch accounts

homecloud login --username alice
homecloud accounts list
homecloud accounts switch my-team

Access Keys always belong to one account. When you run homecloud configure with a key, that account is selected automatically for data-plane commands.

Platform-admin created accounts

If a platform administrator created your tenant for you, they may have chosen a bootstrap mode (bare / minimal / full). You still sign in the same way. Ask them for the console URL and your initial username.