Granting Cluster Permissions to an IAM User

CCE cluster-level permissions are assigned based on IAM system policies and custom policies. You can use user groups to assign permissions to IAM users.

Cluster permissions are granted for users to operate cluster-related resources only (such as clusters and nodes). To operate Kubernetes resources like workloads and Services, you must be granted the namespace permissions at the same time.
When viewing a cluster on the CCE console, the information displayed depends on the namespace permissions. If you have no namespace permissions, you cannot view the resources in the cluster. For details, see Permission Dependency of the CCE Console.

Prerequisites

Before granting permissions to user groups, get familiar with the system policies listed in Permissions. For the system policies of other services, see System Permissions.
A user with the Security Administrator role (for example, your account) has all IAM permissions except role switching. Only these users can view user groups and their permissions on the Permissions page on the CCE console.

Configuration

On the CCE console, when you choose Permissions > Cluster-Level Permissions to create a user group, you will be directed to the IAM console to complete the process. After the user group is created and its permissions are configured, you can view the information on the Cluster-Level Permissions tab page. This section describes the operations in IAM.

Process Flow

Figure 1 Process of assigning CCE permissions

Create a user group and assign permissions to it.
Create a user group on the IAM console, and assign CCE permissions, for example, the CCE ReadOnlyAccess policy to the group.

CCE is deployed by region. On the IAM console, select Region-specific projects when assigning CCE permissions.
Create a user and add it to a user group.
Create a user on the IAM console and add the user to the group created in 1.
Log in and verify permissions.
Log in to the management console as the user you created, and verify that the user has the assigned permissions.
- Log in to the management console, switch to the CCE console, and buy a cluster. If you fail to do so (assuming that only the CCE ReadOnlyAccess permission is assigned), the CCE ReadOnlyAccess policy has already taken effect.
- Switch to the console of any other service. If a message appears indicating that you do not have the required permissions for accessing the service, the CCE ReadOnlyAccess policy has already taken effect.

System-defined Roles

Roles are a type of coarse-grained authorization mechanism that defines service-level permissions based on user responsibilities. Only a limited number of service-level roles are available for authorization. Roles are not ideal for fine-grained authorization and least privilege access.

The preset system role for CCE in IAM is CCE Administrator. When assigning this role to a user group, you must also select other roles and policies on which this role depends, such as Tenant Guest, Server Administrator, ELB Administrator, OBS Administrator, SFS Administrator, SWR Admin, and APM FullAccess. For more information about dependencies, see System Permissions.

System-defined Policies

The system policies preset for CCE in IAM are CCE FullAccess and CCE ReadOnlyAccess.

CCE FullAccess: common operation permissions on CCE cluster resources, excluding the namespace-level permissions for the clusters (with Kubernetes RBAC enabled) and the privileged administrator operations, such as agency configuration and cluster certificate generation
CCE ReadOnlyAccess: permissions to view CCE cluster resources, excluding the namespace-level permissions of the clusters (with Kubernetes RBAC enabled)

When purchasing a cluster or node that is billed on a yearly/monthly basis, add custom policies and configure payment permissions such as bss:*:* for the Billing Center.

**Table 1** Permissions granted by CCE FullAccess
Action	Specific Action	Description
cce::	cce:cluster:create	Create a cluster.
	cce:cluster:delete	Delete a cluster.
	cce:cluster:update	Update a cluster. For example, update cluster node scheduling parameters and provide RBAC support to clusters.
	cce:cluster:upgrade	Upgrade a cluster.
	cce:cluster:start	Wake up a cluster.
	cce:cluster:stop	Hibernate a cluster.
	cce:cluster:list	List all clusters.
	cce:cluster:get	Query cluster details.
	cce:node:create	Add a node.
	cce:node:delete	Delete one or more nodes.
	cce:node:update	Update a node. For example, update the node name.
	cce:node:get	Query node details.
	cce:node:list	List all nodes.
	cce:nodepool:create	Create a node pool.
	cce:nodepool:delete	Delete a node pool.
	cce:nodepool:update	Update information about a node pool.
	cce:nodepool:get	Obtain information about a node pool.
	cce:nodepool:list	List all node pools in a cluster.
	cce:release:create	Create a release.
	cce:release:delete	Delete a release.
	cce:release:update	Update a release.
	cce:job:list	List all cluster jobs.
	cce:job:delete	Delete one or more cluster jobs.
	cce:job:get	Obtain a specific cluster job.
	cce:storage:create	Create a storage volume.
	cce:storage:delete	Delete a storage volume.
	cce:storage:list	List all volumes.
	cce:addonInstance:create	Create an add-on instance.
	cce:addonInstance:delete	Delete an add-on instance.
	cce:addonInstance:update	Update an add-on instance.
	cce:addonInstance:get	Query add-on instance details.
	cce:addonTemplate:get	Query add-on template details.
	cce:addonInstance:list	List all add-on instances.
	cce:addonTemplate:list	List all add-on templates.
	cce:chart:list	List all charts.
	cce:chart:delete	Delete a chart.
	cce:chart:update	Update a chart.
	cce:chart:upload	Upload a chart.
	cce:chart:get	Obtain information about a chart.
	cce:release:get	Obtain information about a release.
	cce:release:list	List all releases.
	cce:userAuthorization:get	Obtain CCE user authorization.
	cce:userAuthorization:create	Create CCE user authorization.
ecs::	None	Perform all operations on Elastic Cloud Server (ECS).
evs::	-	Perform all operations on Elastic Volume Service (EVS). EVS disks can be attached to cloud servers and expanded to a higher capacity whenever needed.
vpc::	None	Perform all operations on Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), including ELBs. A cluster must run in a VPC. When creating a namespace, create or associate a VPC for the namespace so that all containers in the namespace will run in the VPC.
sfs::get	None	View Scalable File Service (SFS) resource details.
sfs:shares:ShareAction	None	Share SFS resources for scaling.
aom:*:get	None	View Application Operations Management (AOM) resource details.
aom:*:list	None	List AOM resources.
aom:autoScalingRule:*	None	Perform all operations on AOM auto scaling rules.
apm:icmgr:*	None	Perform operations on the ICAgent in Application Performance Management (APM).
lts::	None	Perform all operations on Log Tank Service (LTS).

**Table 2** Permissions granted by CCE ReadOnlyAccess
Action	Specific Action	Description
cce:*:get	cce:cluster:get	Query cluster details.
	cce:node:get	Query node details.
	cce:job:get	Obtain a specific cluster job.
	cce:addonInstance:get	Query add-on instance details.
	cce:addonTemplate:get	Query add-on template details.
	cce:chart:get	Obtain information about a chart.
	cce:nodepool:get	Obtain information about a node pool.
	cce:release:get	Obtain information about a release.
	cce:userAuthorization:get	Obtain CCE user authorization.
cce:*:list	cce:cluster:list	List all clusters.
	cce:node:list	List all nodes.
	cce:job:list	List all cluster jobs.
	cce:addonInstance:list	List all add-on instances.
	cce:addonTemplate:list	List all add-on templates.
	cce:chart:list	List all charts.
	cce:nodepool:list	List all node pools in a cluster.
	cce:release:list	List all releases.
	cce:storage:list	List all volumes.
cce:kubernetes:*	None	Perform operations on all Kubernetes resources. For details, see Namespace Permissions.
ecs:*:get	None	View details about all ECS resources. An ECS with multiple EVS disks is a cluster node in CCE.
ecs:*:list	None	List all ECS resources.
bms::get	None	View details about all BMS resources.
bms:*:list	None	List all BMS resources.
evs:*:get	None	View details about all EVS disk resources. EVS disks can be attached to cloud servers and expanded to a higher capacity whenever needed.
evs:*:list	None	List all EVS resources.
evs:*:count	None	None
vpc:*:get	None	View details of all VPC resources (including ELBs). A cluster must run in a VPC. When creating a namespace, create or associate a VPC for the namespace so that all containers in the namespace will run in the VPC.
vpc:*:list	None	List all VPC resources (including ELBs).
sfs::get	None	View SFS resource details.
sfs:shares:ShareAction	None	Share SFS resources for scaling.
aom:*:get	None	View AOM resource details.
aom:*:list	None	List all AOM resources.
aom:autoScalingRule:*	None	Perform all operations on AOM auto scaling rules.
lts:*:get	None	View details about all LTS resources.
lts:*:list	None	List all LTS resources.

Custom Policies

Custom policies can be created as a supplement to the system-defined policies of CCE. For the actions that can be added to custom policies, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions.

You can create custom policies in either of the following ways:

Visual editor: Select cloud services, actions, resources, and request conditions. This does not require knowledge of policy syntax.
JSON: Edit JSON policies from scratch or based on an existing policy.

For details, see Creating a Custom Policy. This section provides examples of common custom CCE policies.

Example Custom Policies:

Example 1: Creating a cluster named test

{
    "Version": "1.1",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cce:cluster:create"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Example 2: Denying node deletion
A policy with only "Deny" permissions must be used in conjunction with other policies to take effect. If the permissions assigned to a user contain both "Allow" and "Deny", the "Deny" permissions take precedence over the "Allow" permissions.

The following method can be used if you need to assign permissions of the CCEFullAccess policy to a user but you want to prevent the user from deleting nodes (cce:node:delete). Create a custom policy for denying node deletion, and attach both policies to the group to which the user belongs. Then, the user can perform all operations on CCE except deleting nodes. The following is an example of a deny policy:
```
{
    "Version": "1.1",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Deny",
            "Action": [
                "cce:node:delete"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
```

Example 3: Defining permissions for multiple services in a policy

A custom policy can contain the actions of multiple services that are of the global or project-level type. The following is an example policy containing actions of multiple services:

{
    "Version": "1.1",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Action": [
                "ecs:cloudServers:resize",
                "ecs:cloudServers:delete",
                "ecs:cloudServers:delete",
                "ims:images:list",
                "ims:serverImages:create"
            ],
            "Effect": "Allow"
        }
    ]
}

CCE Cluster Permissions and Enterprise Projects

CCE supports resource management and permission allocation by cluster and enterprise project.

Note that:

IAM projects are based on physical isolation of resources, whereas enterprise projects provide global logical groups of resources, which better meet the actual requirements of enterprises. In addition, IAM policies can be managed based on enterprise projects. Therefore, you are advised to use enterprise projects for permissions management. For details, see Creating an Enterprise Project.
When there are both IAM projects and enterprise projects, IAM preferentially matches the IAM project policies.
When creating a cluster or node using purchased cloud resources, ensure that IAM users have been granted the required permissions in the enterprise project to use these resources. Otherwise, the cluster or node may fail to be created.

If a resource does not support enterprise projects, the permissions granted to the resource will not take effect.

Resource Type	Resource Name	Description
Supporting enterprise projects	cluster	Cluster
	node	Node
	nodepool	Node pool
	job	Job
	tag	Cluster label
	addonInstance	Add-on instance
	release	Helm version
	storage	Storage
Not supporting enterprise projects	quota	Cluster quota
	chart	Chart
	addonTemplate	Add-on template

CCE Cluster Permissions and IAM RBAC

CCE is compatible with IAM system roles for permissions management. You are advised to use fine-grained policies provided by IAM to simplify permissions management.

CCE supports the following roles:

Basic IAM roles:
- te_admin (Tenant Administrator): Users with this role can call all APIs of all services except IAM.
- readonly (Tenant Guest): Users with this role can call APIs with the read-only permissions of all services except IAM.
Custom CCE administrator role: CCE Administrator

If a user has the Tenant Administrator or CCE Administrator system role, the user has the cluster-admin permissions in Kubernetes RBAC and the permissions cannot be removed after the cluster is created.

If the user is the cluster creator, the cluster-admin permissions in Kubernetes RBAC are granted to the user by default. The permissions can be manually removed after the cluster is created.

Method 1: Choose Permissions Management > Namespace-Level Permissions > Delete at the same role as cluster-creator on the CCE console.
Method 2: Delete ClusterRoleBinding: cluster-creator through the API or kubectl.

When RBAC and IAM policies co-exist, the backend authentication logic for open APIs or console operations on CCE is as follows: