Predefined role descriptions

Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gapped has the following predefined roles that you can assign to team members:

PA roles

Platform Administrators (PA) manage organization level resources and project lifecycle management. You can assign the following predefined roles to team members:

  • AI Platform Admin: Grants permissions to manage pre-trained services.
  • Backup Repository Admin: Manages backup repositories.
  • Billing Viewer: Has read-only access to SKU descriptions, inventory machines, and fleets on the cost table page.
  • Bucket Admin: Manages storage buckets within organizations and projects and the objects in those buckets.
  • Bucket Object Admin: Has read-only access on buckets within an organization, and read-write access on the objects in those buckets.
  • Bucket Object Viewer: Has read-only access on buckets within a organization and the objects in those buckets.
  • DR Backup Admin: Performs disaster recovery backups.
  • DR System Admin: Manages resources in the dr-system namespace for setting up backups on the control plane.
  • Flow Log Admin: Manages flow log resources for logging network traffic metadata.
  • Flow Log Viewer: Provides read-only access to flow log configurations.
  • GDCH Restrict By Attributes Policy Admin: Has full access to the GDCHRestrictByAttributes constraint.
  • GDCH Restricted Service Policy Admin: Manages policy templates for the organization and has full access to constraints. Applies or rolls back policies for an organization or project.
  • IdP Federation Admin: Has full access to configure identity providers.
  • KMS Rotation Job Admin: Has full access to create and manage the RotationJob resource, which rotate key management system (KMS) root keys.
  • Log Querier: Has read-only access to reach the audit log or operational log endpoint from the Log Query API to view logs for a project.
  • Org Network Policy Admin: Manages organization network policies in the platform namespace.
  • Org Session Admin: Has access to the revocation command. Users bound to this Role are added to the ACLs for authentication and authorization.
  • Organization Backup Admin: Has read and write access to manage backups.
  • Organization IAM Viewer: Has read-only access to all resources that the Organization IAM Administrator has access to.
  • Organization DB Admin: Manages Database Service resources for an organization.
  • Organization IAM Admin: Creates, updates, and deletes any permissions and allow policies within the org admin cluster.
  • Organization Upgrade Admin: Modifies maintenance windows for an organization. Maintenance windows are created automatically during organization creation.
  • Organization Upgrade Viewer: Views maintenance windows.
  • Project Creator: Creates new projects.
  • Project Editor: Deletes projects.
  • SIEM Export Org Creator: Creates SIEMOrgForwarder custom resources.
  • SIEM Export Org Editor: Has read and write access on SIEMOrgForwarder custom resources.
  • SIEM Export Org Viewer Has read-only access to view SIEMOrgForwarder custom resources.
  • System Cluster Backup Repository Admin: Has full access to manage backup repositories.
  • Transfer Appliance Request Creator: Can read and create transfer appliance requests, which allow you to quickly and securely transfer large amounts of data to Distributed Cloud using a high capacity storage server.
  • User Cluster Backup Admin: Manages backup resources such as backup and restore plans in user clusters.
  • User Cluster Admin: Creates, updates, and deletes the user cluster, and manages the user cluster's lifecycle.
  • User Cluster Developer: Has cluster admin permissions in user clusters.
  • User Cluster Node Viewer: Has read-only cluster admin permissions in user clusters.

AO roles

An Application Operator (AO) is a member of the development team within the Platform Administrator (PA) organization. AOs interact with project-level resources. You can assign the following predefined roles to team members:

  • K8s Network Policy Admin: Manages network policies in user clusters.
  • KMS Admin: Manages KMS keys in a project, including the AEADKey and SigningKey keys. This role can also import and export keys.
  • KMS Creator: Has create and read access on KMS keys in a project.
  • KMS Developer: Has access to perform crypto operations using keys in projects.
  • KMS Key Export Admin: Has access to export KMS keys as wrapped keys from the KMS.
  • KMS Key Import Admin: Has access to import KMS keys as wrapped keys to the KMS.
  • KMS Viewer: Has read-only access to KMS keys in their project, and can view key import and export.
  • Marketplace Editor: Has create, update, and delete access on service instances in a project.
  • MonitoringRule Editor: Has read and write access to MonitoringRule resources.
  • MonitoringRule Viewer: Has read-only access to MonitoringRule custom resources.
  • MonitoringTarget Editor: Has read and write access to MonitoringTarget custom resources.
  • MonitoringTarget Viewer: Has read-only access to MonitoringTarget custom resources.
  • Namespace Admin: Manages all resources within the project namespace.
  • NAT Viewer: Has read-only access to deployments in user clusters.
  • ObservabilityPipeline Editor: Has read and write access on ObservabilityPipeine custom resources.
  • ObservabilityPipeline Viewer: Has read-only access on ObservabilityPipeline custom resources.
  • Project Bucket Admin: Manages the storage buckets and objects within buckets.
  • Project Bucket Object Admin: Has read-only access on buckets within a project, and read-write access on the objects in those buckets.
  • Project Bucket Object Viewer: Has read-only access on buckets within a project and the objects in those buckets.
  • Project IAM Admin: Manages the IAM allow policies of projects.
  • Project NetworkPolicy Admin: Manages the project network policies in the project namespace.
  • Project DB Admin: Administers Database Service for a project.
  • Project DB Editor: Has read-write access to Database Service for a project.
  • Project DB Viewer: Has read-only access to Database Service for a project.
  • Project Viewer: Has read-only access to all resources within project namespaces.
  • Project VirtualMachine Admin: Manages VMs in the project namespace.
  • Project VirtualMachine Image Admin: Manages VM images in the project namespace.
  • Secret Admin: Manages Kubernetes secrets in projects.
  • Secret Viewer: Views Kubernetes secrets in projects.
  • Service Configuration Admin: Has read and write access to service configurations within a project namespace.
  • Service Configuration Viewer: Has read access to service configurations within a project namespace.
  • Vertex AI Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Developer: Accesses the OCR service.
  • Vertex AI Speech-to-Text Developer: Accesses the Speech-to-Text service.
  • Vertex AI Translation Developer: Accesses the Translation service.
  • Vertex AI Prediction User: Accesses the Online Prediction service.
  • Workbench Notebooks Admin: Has read-write access to all notebook resources within a project namespace.
  • Workbench Notebooks Viewer: Has read-only access to all notebook resources within a project namespace.

    • Common roles

    The following predefined common roles apply to all authenticated users:

    • AI Platform Viewer: Grants permissions to view pre-trained services.
    • DB Options Viewer: Views all configuration options that can be used in Database Service.
    • DB UI Viewer: Grants permissions to authenticated users to view the Database Service UI.
    • DNS Suffix Viewer: Accesses the domain name service (DNS) suffix config map.
    • Flow Log Admin: Has read and write access to all Flow Log resources.
    • Flow Log Viewer: Has read-only access to all Flow Log resources.
    • Marketplace Viewer: Has read-only access on service versions and service instances.
    • Pricing Calculator User: Has read-only access to stock keeping unit (SKU) descriptions.
    • Project Discovery Viewer: Has read access for all authenticated users to the project view.
    • Public Image Viewer: Has read access for all authenticated users on the public VM images in the namespace vm-images.
    • Virtual Machine Type Viewer: Has read access to cluster-scoped virtual machine types.
    • VM Type Viewer: Has read access to the predefined virtual machine types.