Authorizing a user to act as an IBM Cloud Pak for Data instance administrator

If a user other than the cluster administrator will install IBM Cloud Pak for Data, you must give a Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform user the required roles to install the Cloud Pak for Data software in the instance projects.

Installation phase

Setting up a client workstation

Setting up a cluster

Collecting required information

Preparing to run installs from a private container registry

Preparing the cluster for Cloud Pak for Data

Preparing to install an instance of Cloud Pak for Data

Installing an instance of Cloud Pak for Data

Who needs to complete this task?

Cluster administrator A cluster administrator must complete this task.

When do you need to complete this task?

This task is required in some situations.

Skip this task if the cluster administrator will install the Cloud Pak for Data software in the instance projects.
Complete this task only if a user other than the cluster administrator will install IBM Cloud Pak for Data.
Repeat as needed If you plan to install multiple instances of Cloud Pak for Data, you must repeat this task for each instance that you plan to install.

Before you begin

Best practice: You can run many of the commands in this task exactly as written if you set up environment variables for your installation. For instructions, see Setting up installation environment variables.

Ensure that you source the environment variables before you run the commands in this task.

About this task

You must assign the following roles in the specified projects to any users who will install software for this instance of Cloud Pak for Data:

Role	Projects	Details
`admin`	Operators project Operands project Any tethered projects	The Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform `admin` role enables a user to view and modify any resource in the project except for the project quota.
`cpd-instance-admin-apply-olm`	Operators project	The `cpd-instance-admin-apply-olm` role enables a user to create and modify OLM artifacts in the operators project for the instance.

Tip: If you are not willing to give a user the admin permission on the projects associated with the instance, you can give the user the minimum role-based access control to create the required resources based on the components that you plan to install. However, this method requires additional planning and maintenance and is not recommended for typical installations. Giving a user the minimum RBAC to install Cloud Pak for Data components

Procedure

To apply the required permissions to the projects:

Log in to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as a user with sufficient permissions to complete the task.
```
oc login ${OCP_URL}
```
Set the INSTANCE_ADMIN environment variable to the username of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform user that you want to give instance administration privileges to.
```
export INSTANCE_ADMIN=<user>
```
Assign the user the admin role in all of the projects associated with the instance.

Tip: The following steps use the oc adm policy add-role-to-user <role-name> <user-name> command. Alternatively, you can use the oc adm policy add-role-to-group <role-name> <group-name> command to authorize a group of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform users.
1. Assign the user the role in the operators project for the instance:
```
oc adm policy add-role-to-user admin ${INSTANCE_ADMIN} \
--namespace=${PROJECT_CPD_INST_OPERATORS} \
--rolebinding-name="cpd-instance-admin-rbac"
```
2. Assign the user the role in the operands project for the instance:
```
oc adm policy add-role-to-user admin ${INSTANCE_ADMIN} \
--namespace=${PROJECT_CPD_INST_OPERANDS} \
--rolebinding-name="cpd-instance-admin-rbac"
```
3. Assign the user the role in any tethered projects for the instance:
```
oc adm policy add-role-to-user admin ${INSTANCE_ADMIN} \
--namespace=${PROJECT_CPD_INSTANCE_TETHERED} \
--rolebinding-name="cpd-instance-admin-rbac"
```
  Repeat this step for each tethered project that is associated with this instance of Cloud Pak for Data.
  Tip: If you set the PROJECT_CPD_INSTANCE_TETHERED_LIST environment variable, print the list of tethered projects to the terminal:
  echo $PROJECT_CPD_INSTANCE_TETHERED_LIST
  Use this information to set the PROJECT_CPD_INSTANCE_TETHERED environment variable before you re-run the command.

Assign the user the cpd-instance-admin-apply-olm role on the operators project for the instance:

Create the cpd-instance-admin-apply-olm role in the operators project for the instance:

oc apply -f - << EOF
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: Role
metadata:
  name: cpd-instance-admin-apply-olm
  namespace: ${PROJECT_CPD_INST_OPERATORS}
rules:
- apiGroups:
  - operators.coreos.com
  resources:
  - operatorgroups
  verbs:
  - create
  - get
  - list
  - patch
  - update
- apiGroups:
  - operators.coreos.com
  resources:
  - catalogsources
  verbs:
  - create
  - get
  - list
EOF

Assign the user the role in the operators project for the instance:
Tip: The following step uses the oc adm policy add-role-to-user <role-name> <user-name> command. Alternatively, you can use the oc adm policy add-role-to-group <role-name> <group-name> command to authorize a group of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform users.
```
oc adm policy add-role-to-user cpd-instance-admin-apply-olm ${INSTANCE_ADMIN} \
--namespace=${PROJECT_CPD_INST_OPERATORS} \
--role-namespace=${PROJECT_CPD_INST_OPERATORS} \
--rolebinding-name="cpd-instance-admin-apply-olm-rbac"
```

What to do next

Now that you've authorized a user to act as a IBM Cloud Pak for Data instance administrator, you're ready to complete Creating secrets for services that use Multicloud Object Gateway.