Role Based Access Control - Overview
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) enables the management of user permissions across infrastructure: public and private clouds, containers, hypervisors, and bare-metal devices. Each organization can have a number of teams, each with different access policies to the infrastructure.
Note: Each organization will require a subscription plan.
Nomenclature
- Account - An account can have many organizations. Each organization will require a subscription.
- Organization - Organization can have many teams.
- Team - Team has members.
- Member - Members belong to 1 or more teams. Members have a unique username and password to access the Mist.io interface.
- Policy - a TeamPolicy is associated with a Team. A Policy can have many rules
- Rule - Rules define member permissions
Roles
- Account owner - this role has complete administrative control; can create organizations, teams, add and remove members, and create and edit rules
- Members - the default role for everyone else; a member can’t create a team or rules or invite members to join a team
RBAC workflow for an account owner
- Create a Team.
2. Create a Team Policy.
3. Invite Members to join the team.
Rules will apply to all team members
Organizations, Teams, and Rules are created by an account owner. A policy is always associated with a Team. Rules are always associated with a Policy and define Member’s permissions. Example:
- An account owner can create Rules which reside in a policy that specifies the public clouds a team member can provision a virtual server on
Rules are always assigned to a Team rather than directly to Members. To grant permissions to a Member, you first need to assign a member to a Team. Members inherit access permissions from the Team. A Member can belong to more than one Organization and/or Team.