NSX Advanced Load Balancer provides RBAC to provide granular access to control, manage, and monitor applications within NSX Advanced Load Balancer.

RBAC can be implemented at a field-level. This section covers the use of sub-resources to implement RBAC per field.

Granular RBAC per-Field

Using Granular RBAC per Field, users can be allowed to update an object but restrict the updates to a specific set of fields.

For example, allow users to:

  • Enable or disable GSLB service groups, but restrict updating any other fields in the GSLB object.

  • Enable or disable a virtual service, but restrict updating any other virtual service configuration.

  • Add, remove, or update the pool servers, but restrict updating any other pool configuration.

Sub-resources

To implement per-field RBAC, sub-resources for the existing resources are introduced. These sub-resources are associated with a specific field, feature, or a set of fields within the object. When a sub-resource is configured on a resource with write access, it will allow update to the object only if those sub-resources are the only fields updated. Read access is allowed for the full object, but delete and create are not allowed from that permission. Sub-resources can be combined to allow users to configure multiple fields or features in an object.

To define access for sub-resources, the flags allow edit to only [subresource(s)] and allow edit of entire object except for [subresource(s)] are introduced.

For example, configure a role with sub-resources as shown below.

[admin:10]: > configure role Pool-Enabled-Role
[admin:10]: role> privileges 
New object being created
[admin:10]: role:privileges> type write_access 
[admin:10]: role:privileges> resource permission_pool
[admin:10]: role:privileges> subresource 
[admin:10]: role:privileges:subresource> subresources subresource_pool_enabled 
[admin:10]: role:privileges:subresource> save
[admin:10]: role:privileges> save
[admin:10]: role> save

The pool is configured as shown below.

+--------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| Field                    | Value                                     |
+--------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| uuid                     | role-c5d28445-995c-44b8-9677-610bb20cb2e7 |
| name                     | Pool-Enabled-Role                         |
| privileges[1]            |                                           |
|   type                   | WRITE_ACCESS                              |
|   resource               | PERMISSION_POOL                           |
|   subresource            |                                           |
|     exclude_subresources | False                                     |
|     subresources[1]      | SUBRESOURCE_POOL_ENABLED                  |
| tenant_ref               | admin                                     |
+--------------------------+-------------------------------------------+

Sub-resources enable the user to execute a specific function within the object.

All available sub-resources are listed below.

Sub-resource

Function

SUBRESOURCE_POOL_ENABLED

Add/update/disable pool servers

SUBRESOURCE_POOL_SERVERS

Add/update/remove pool servers

SUBRESOURCE_POOL_SERVER_ENABLED

Enable/disable pool servers

SUBRESOURCE_VIRTUALSERVICE_ENABLED

Enable/disable virtual servers

SUBRESOURCE_GSLBSERVICE_ENABLED

Enable/disable GSLB service objects

SUBRESOURCE_GSLBSERVICE_GROUPS

Update GSLBservice groups

SUBRESOURCE_GSLBSERVICE_GROUPS_ENABLED

Enable/disable GSLBservice groups

SUBRESOURCE_GSLBSERVICE_GROUP_MEMBERS

Update GSLBservice group members

SUBRESOURCE_GSLBSERVICE_GROUP_MEMBER_ENABLED

Enable/disable GSLBservice group members

SUBRESOURCE_VIRTUALSERVICE_AUTO_ALLOCATE_FLOATING_IP

Enable/ disable Auto allocate floating IP
Note:

If the access is not allowed for any field, creation of objects is not permitted as well.