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Updated on 2023-12-05 GMT+08:00

What Types of APIs Does ELB Provide? What Are Permissions of ELB?

ELB supports the following policies:

Table 1 ELB policies

Policy Type

Policy Name

Description

RBAC policy

ELB Administrator

Has all permissions on ELB

Before assigning the RBAC policy to a user group, check whether the user group has a dependent policy. If yes, set the dependent permission to make the RBAC policy take effect.

Fine-grained policy

ELB FullAccess

Has all permissions on ELB.

If this function is not enabled, you cannot assign a fine-grained policy to a user group.

ELB ReadOnlyAccess

Has the read-only permission on ELB.

Table 2 Common operations supported by system-defined policies

Operation

ELB FullAccess

ELB ReadOnlyAccess

ELB Administrator

Creating a load balancer

Supported

Not supported

Supported

Querying a load balancer

Supported

Supported

Supported

Querying a load balancer and associated resources

Supported

Supported

Supported

Querying load balancers

Supported

Supported

Supported

Modifying a load balancer

Supported

Not supported

Supported

Deleting a load balancer

Supported

Not supported

Supported

Adding a listener

Supported

Not supported

Supported

Querying a listener

Supported

Supported

Supported

Modifying a listener

Supported

Not supported

Supported

Deleting a listener

Supported

Not supported

Supported

Adding a backend server group

Supported

Not supported

Supported

Querying a backend server group

Supported

Supported

Supported

Modifying a backend server group

Supported

Not supported

Supported

Deleting a backend server group

Supported

Not supported

Supported

Adding a backend server

Supported

Not supported

Supported

Querying a backend server

Supported

Supported

Supported

Modifying a backend server

Supported

Not supported

Supported

Deleting a backend server

Supported

Not supported

Supported

Configuring a health check

Supported

Not supported

Supported

Querying a health check

Supported

Supported

Supported

Modifying a health check

Supported

Not supported

Supported

Disabling a health check

Supported

Not supported

Supported

Assigning an EIP

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Binding an EIP to a load balancer

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Querying an EIP

Supported

Supported

Supported

Unbinding an EIP from a load balancer

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Viewing metrics

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

Viewing access logs

Not supported

Not supported

Supported

  • To unbind an EIP, you also need to configure the vpc:bandwidths:update and vpc:publicIps:update permission of the VPC service. For details, see the Virtual Private Cloud API Reference.
  • To view monitoring metrics, you also need to configure the CES ReadOnlyAccess permission. For details, see the Cloud Eye API Reference.
  • To view access logs, you also need to configure the LTS ReadOnlyAccess permission. For details, see the Log Tank Service API Reference.

For details about fine-grained permissions, see the Elastic Load Balance API Reference.

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