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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>How many service accounts should we have?</title><link>https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/best-practices/27707/how-many-service-accounts-should-we-have</link><description>Hi everyone, 
 Happy 2023. 
 I&amp;#39;ve got a question about service accounts: we&amp;#39;ve got a single environment with no Dev + Test + Prod set up. Just one environment a number of devs at our company all use. A sort of &amp;quot;sandbox&amp;quot; where we have a number of applications</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: How many service accounts should we have?</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/107844?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 11:49:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:e3672e67-4349-48c3-940c-94ea478ed253</guid><dc:creator>Uel_M</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks so much. Really appreciate it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: How many service accounts should we have?</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/107730?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 15:08:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:38d337e3-7c85-46f3-ad72-f5726f8138f6</guid><dc:creator>Mike Schmitt</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;If security considerations are low (which it sounds like, in your case), then I&amp;#39;d guess one API Key service account might be usable.&amp;nbsp; Make sure to make all actual security setup configurations group-based (via app-specific groups and related), at least if you ever plan to port / deploy these elsewhere.&amp;nbsp; Then your single service account can just be added as a user in those security groups as needed.&amp;nbsp; And if you need to switch up to using a few different ones for whatever reason, it can simply be managed by updating which service user(s) are in which groups.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>