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Our latest catalogs provide full documenation of the RBAC used by all operators therein, example below:
The December 2024 catalog is documented here: https://ibm-mas.github.io/cli/catalogs/v9-241205-amd64/
From this we can view the details of the ibm-mas v9.0.6 operator package: https://ibm-mas.github.io/cli/catalogs/packages/ibm-mas/9.0.6/ including:
The service accounts used: https://ibm-mas.github.io/cli/catalogs/packages/ibm-mas/9.0.6/#service-accounts
The cluster permissions used: https://ibm-mas.github.io/cli/catalogs/packages/ibm-mas/9.0.6/#cluster-permissions
The namespace permissions used: https://ibm-mas.github.io/cli/catalogs/packages/ibm-mas/9.0.6/#namespace-permissions
This information is available for (nearly) every package provided in the catalog covering both the Maximo operators and our IBM dependencies. There are a couple of exceptions with our dependency pacakges where the information is not available to us.
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