Role and Member Management

This guide demonstrates how to manage roles and members in your workspace. For more information about KubeSphere roles, see Overview of Role Management.

In workspace scope, you can grant the following resources’ permissions to a role:

  • Projects
  • DevOps
  • Access Control
  • Apps Management
  • Workspace Settings

Prerequisites

At least one workspace has been created, such as demo-workspace. Besides, you need an account of the workspace-admin role (e.g. ws-admin) at the workspace level. See Create Workspace, Project, Account and Role if it is not ready yet.

Note

The actual role name follows a naming convention: workspace name-role name. For example, for a workspace named demo-workspace, the actual role name of the role workspace-admin is demo-workspace-admin.

Built-in Roles

In Workspace Roles, there are four available built-in roles as shown below. Built-in roles are created automatically by KubeSphere when a workspace is created and they cannot be edited or deleted. You can only review permissions and authorized users.

Built-in RolesDescription
workspace-viewerThe viewer in the workspace who can view all resources in the workspace.
workspace-self-provisionerThe regular user in the workspace who can create projects and DevOps projects.
workspace-regularThe regular user in the workspace who cannot create projects or DevOps projects.
workspace-adminThe administrator in the workspace who can perform any action on any resource. It gives full control over all resources in the workspace.
  1. In Workspace Roles , click workspace-admin and you can see the role detail as shown below.

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  1. You can switch to Authorized Users tab to see all the users that are granted a workspace-admin role.

Create a Workspace Role

  1. Log in the console as ws-admin and go to Workspace Roles in Workspace Settings.

Note

The account ws-admin is used as an example. As long as the account you are using is granted a role including the authorization of Workspace Members View, Workspace Roles Management and Workspace Roles View in Access Control at the workspace level, it can create a workspace role.

  1. In Workspace Roles, click Create and set a Role Identifier. In this example, a role named workspace-projects-admin will be created. Click Edit Authorization to continue.

Create a workspace role

  1. In Projects management, select the authorization that you want the user granted this role to have. For example, Projects Create, Projects Management, and Projects View are selected for this role. Click OK to finish.

Edit Authorization

Note

Depend on means the major authorization (the one listed after Depend on) needs to be selected first so that the affiliated authorization can be assigned.

  1. Newly-created roles will be listed in Workspace Roles. You can click the three dots on the right to edit it.

Edit Roles

Note

The role of workspace-projects-admin is only granted Projects Create, Projects Management, and Projects View, which may not satisfy your need. This example is only for demonstration purpose. You can create customized roles based on your needs.

Invite a New Member

  1. In Workspace Settings, select Workspace Members and click Invite Member.
  2. Invite a user to the workspace. Grant the role workspace-projects-admin to the user.

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  1. After you add a user to the workspace, click OK. In Workspace Members, you can see the newly invited member listed.
  2. You can also change the role of an existing member by editing it or remove it from the workspace.

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