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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM MAS - Common Services
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 20, 2024

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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 and to create instances/services/workspace. So, installation procedure should also clearly define the RBAC policies/cluster role bindings /Certificate issuer policies with issuer details that might be needed in-order to gain access for the namespace admins/service accounts that calls/creates/updates the operator APIs/instances/workspaces/generate certificates etc.

Idea priority Medium
Needed By Quarter
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    Lisa Stuckless
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    |     Aug 21, 2024

    This is the same challenge of shifting our automation away from a simple "be cluster-admin" to a RBAC aware model; it's not simple, and it's not going to be quick. However, what we are seeing is that the customers that are interested in this wouldn't be using our ansible/CLI anyway and are looking either at the gitops solution we delivered this year, or like yourselves are looking to build their own. If there's a desire within Ford to use the MAS CLI to perform an install if it could be made RBAC aware then that would help add priority behind such work, but as with other customers, where we are seeing this kind of feedback we are also seeing a desire not to use the CLI in the first place, so at present there is questionable value in making changes in the CLI to support role-aware install/update/upgrade, which is why - so far - we are really only looking to address concerns in this area in terms of providing clear documentation about the roles involved.

    FWIW, if you are interested in the progress of this effort, the work in progress RBAC definition can be tracked here: https://github.com/ibm-mas/cli/tree/master/rbac/install


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