Orgs, Spaces, Roles, and Permissions
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This topic describes orgs and spaces in Pivotal Web Services (PWS) foundations. It also describes the default permissions for user roles in PWS.
Overview
PWS uses a role-based access control (RBAC) system to grant appropriate permissions to PWS users.
Admins, Org Managers, and Space Managers can assign user roles using the Cloud Foundry Command Line Interface (cf CLI). For more information, see Users and Roles in Getting Started with the cf CLI.
Orgs
An org is a development account that an individual or multiple collaborators can own and use. All collaborators access an org with user accounts, which have roles such as Org Manager, Org Auditor, and Org Billing Manager. Collaborators in an org share a resource quota plan, apps, services availability, and custom domains.
By default, an org has the status of active. An admin can set the status of an org to suspended for various reasons such as failure to provide payment or misuse. When an org is suspended, users cannot perform certain activities within the org, such as push apps, modify spaces, or bind services.
For more information about the actions that each role can perform, see User Roles and User Role Permissions.
For details on what activities are allowed for suspended orgs, see Roles and Permissions for Suspended Orgs.
Spaces
A space provides users with access to a shared location for app development, deployment, and maintenance. An org can contain multiple spaces. Every app, service, and route is scoped to a space. Roles provide access control for these resources and each space role applies only to a particular space.
Org managers can set quotas on the following for a space:
- Usage of paid services
- Number of app instances
- Number of service keys
- Number of routes
- Number of reserved route ports
- Memory used across the space
- Memory used by a single app instances
User Roles
A user account represents an individual person within the context of a PWS foundation. A user can have one or more roles. These roles define the user’s permissions in orgs and spaces.
Roles can be assigned different scopes of User Account and Authentication (UAA) privileges. For more information about UAA scopes, see Scopes in User Account and Authentication (UAA) Server.
The following describes each type of user role in PWS:
Org Managers: Administer the org.
Org Auditors: Read-only access to user information and org quota usage information.
- Org Billing Managers create and manage billing account and payment information.
Org Users: Read-only access to the list of other org users and their roles. When an Org Manager gives a person an Org or Space role, that person automatically receives Org User status in that org.
Space Managers: Administer a space within an org.
Space Developers: Manage apps, services, and space-scoped service brokers in a space.
Space Auditors: Read-only access to a space.
For non-admin users, the cloud_controller.read
scope is required to view resources, and the cloud_controller.write
scope is required to create, update, and delete resources.
Before you assign a space role to a user, you must assign an org role to the user. The error message Server error, error code: 1002, message: cannot set space role because user is not part of the org
occurs when you try to set a space role before setting an org role for the user.
User Role Permissions
Each user role includes different permissions in a PWS foundation. The following sections describe the permissions associated with each user role in both active and suspended orgs in PWS.
Roles and Permissions for Active Orgs
The following table describes the default permissions for various PWS roles in active orgs.
Activity | Org Manager | Org Auditor | Org Billing Manager | Space Manager | Space Developer | Space Auditor |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scope of operation | Org | Org | Org | Space | Space | Space |
Add and edit users and roles | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
View users and roles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Create and assign org quota plans* | ||||||
View org quota plans | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Create orgs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
View orgs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Edit, rename, and delete orgs | ✓** | |||||
Create and assign space quota plans | ✓ | |||||
Create spaces | ✓ | |||||
View spaces | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Edit spaces | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Delete spaces | ✓ | |||||
Rename spaces | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
View the status, number of instances, service bindings, and resource use of applications | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Add private domains | ✓ | |||||
Deploy, run, and manage applications | ✓ | |||||
Instantiate and bind services to applications | ✓ | |||||
Associate routes, instance counts, memory allocation, and disk limit of applications | ✓ | |||||
Rename applications | ✓ | |||||
Set payment information and org/space spending limit | ✓ | |||||
Read invoices and payment history; set invoice notification email addresses | ✓ |
* Managed by PWS administrators.
**Org Managers can rename their orgs and edit some fields; they cannot delete orgs.
Roles and Permissions for Suspended Orgs
The following table describes roles and permissions applied after an operator sets the status of an org to suspended.
Activity | Org Manager | Org Auditor | Org Billing Manager | Space Manager | Space Developer | Space Auditor |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scope of operation | Org | Org | Org | Space | Space | Space |
Add and edit users and roles | ||||||
View users and roles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Create and assign org quota plans | ||||||
View org quota plans | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Create orgs | ||||||
View all orgs | ||||||
View orgs where user is a member | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Edit, rename, and delete orgs | ||||||
Create and assign space quota plans | ||||||
Create spaces | ||||||
View spaces | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Edit spaces | ||||||
Delete spaces | ||||||
Rename spaces | ||||||
View the status, number of instances, service bindings, and resource use of apps | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Add private domains | ||||||
Deploy, run, and manage apps | ||||||
Instantiate and bind services to apps | ||||||
Associate routes, instance counts, memory allocation, and disk limit of apps | ||||||
Rename apps | ||||||
Set payment information and org/space spending limit | ||||||
Read invoices and payment history | ✓ |