Roles and permissions in Lens Teamwork

Lens Teamwork supports the role-based access control (RBAC) approach. Users of Lens Teamwork can create or be members of team spaces. A team space is a group of clusters and users. Within a team space, there's a default permission distribution, and it is possible to customize access to clusters.

Permissions in team spaces

Within a team space, users get cluster permissions through:

• The default team space roles
• Team
• Personal permissions

The default team space roles define permissions for a team space itself and for the associated clusters. Users can have the following default roles:

• Owner
  Creates a team space and has full control of it. Has read and write access to all connected clusters in a team space.
• Admin
  Creates and administers teams within a team space. Has read and write access to all connected clusters in a team space.
• Member
  Observes a team space and has read access to all connected clusters in a team space.

A team is a group of team space users that have certain permissions to a team space clusters. A user can participate in multiple teams within a team space.

Custom RBAC configuration

Users that have read and write access to a cluster can configure the following RBAC API Kubernetes objects in the Access Control section of the cluster profile:

• Role
  Sets permissions within a particular namespace.
• ClusterRole
  Sets permissions cluster wide.
• RoleBinding
  Grants permissions to users and user groups within a specific namespace.
• ClusterRoleBinding
  Grants cluster wide permissions to users and user groups.

Note

For more information about Kubernetes RBAC see Using RBAC Authorization.