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IBM MAS - Common Services

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Restrictions should also be taken into considerations, as they are standard best practices in K8s

Following restrictions should also be taken into considerations, as they are standard best practices in K8s Ability to install MAS on clusters where basic security policies are turned on. Singleton is not typically allowed in most of the OpenShift...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 1 Functionality already exists

Steps to manually approve/upgrade the operators (with other deployment engine/tools) should be available

Every organization may not use automatic approval plans for the operators. So, steps to manually approve/upgrade the operators (with other deployment engine/tools) should be available. When primary operators are approved manually, then its seconda...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 1 Functionality already exists

Installation procedure should also clearly define the RBAC policies/cluster role bindings /Certificate issuer policies

Similarly, due to segregation of duties, even namespace admins might not have access to all the APIs provided by the operators and to create instances/workspaces. RBAC policies might need to be defined in-order to gain access to the operator APIs ...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 2 Future consideration

Ability to install Operators individually should be provided

Ability to install Operators individually should be provided. As mentioned earlier cluster admin access will not be available for the application team. Application team might have only namespace admin access. So, efine the RBAC policies/cluster ro...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 1 Functionality already exists

Installation procedure should not be restricted to just one deployment engine

Though Ansible is robust automation deployment engine, not every organization might be using Ansible. In our case, we use Kustomize manifest with ArgoCD based deployment. So, installation procedure should not be restricted to just one deployment e...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 1 Future consideration

The installation procedure should be split into tasks which have to be executed by cluster admin and those that can be executed by namespace admins

Major OEMs will have their own cloud solutions/Open Shift platforms. Open Shift cluster will be managed by their infrastructure/engineering team. Application team may not/will not have cluster admin access to the Open Shift cluster, since there wi...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 1 Future consideration

Forget Login ID? feature in MAS Manage Login screen

IF the user forgets the login id, there should be a way to retrieve it using the primary email id by clicking on Forget Login Id? There is a support ticket raised TS015499059 for Forget Password which is updated as the reference ticket, this featu...
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 0 Planned for future release

User Entitlement and access reports to assist with license/AppPoint compliance

Via MAS Administration, the User and LIcense Consumption screens only show if you are in/out of compliance... not why. For example, under Users if a User's access is above their entitlement, yes, there is a message on the screen of the USer record...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 1 Future consideration

MAS User Mgmt . - User edit and app point admin.

Activating the Edit User, access to even more details is enabled Authorized or not Amount of Application app points Amount of Administration app points => such information could be really useful to see on the list view of users; see idea ht...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 3 Planned for future release

As a MAS SaaS Service provider, I want to Adopt CADF to certify and audit application security in cloud environments

https://www.dmtf.org/standards/cadf "The Cloud Auditing Data Federation (CADF) standard defines a full event model anyone can use to fill in the essential data needed to certify, self-manage and self-audit application security in cloud environment...
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 0 Future consideration