Access management in Cloud CDN

Cloud CDN uses roles to manage access rights.

In this section, you will learn:

• Which resources you can assign a role for.
• Which roles exist in the service.
• Which roles are required for particular actions.

About access managementAbout access management

In Yandex Cloud, all transactions are checked in Yandex Identity and Access Management. If a subject does not have the required permission, the service returns an error.

To grant permissions for a resource, assign roles for this resource to the subject that will perform the operations. You can assign roles to a Yandex account, service account, federated users, user group, system group, or public group. For more information, see How access management works in Yandex Cloud.

Roles for a resource can be assigned by users who have at least one of the following roles for that resource:

• admin
• resource-manager.admin
• organization-manager.admin
• resource-manager.clouds.owner
• organization-manager.organizations.owner

Which resources you can assign a role forWhich resources you can assign a role for

You can assign a role to an organization, cloud, or folder. The roles assigned for organizations, clouds, or folders also apply to nested resources.

Which roles exist in the serviceWhich roles exist in the service

The chart below shows which roles are available in the service and how they inherit each other's permissions. For example, the editor role includes all the permissions of viewer. You can find the description of each role under the chart.

Service rolesService roles

cdn.viewercdn.viewer

The cdn.viewer role enables viewing info on the folder, origin groups, CDN resources, and Cloud CDN quotas.

cdn.editorcdn.editor

The cdn.editor role enables managing Cloud CDN resources, as well as viewing the info on quotas and the relevant folder.

Users with this role can:

• View information on origin groups as well as create, modify, and delete them.
• View information on CDN resources as well as create, modify, and delete them.
• Manage log export for the requests to CDN servers.
• Manage origin shielding.
• View information on Cloud CDN quotas.
• View information on the relevant folder.

This role also includes the cdn.viewer permissions.

cdn.admincdn.admin

The cdn.admin role enables managing Cloud CDN resources, as well as viewing the info on quotas and the relevant folder.

Users with this role can:

• View information on origin groups as well as create, modify, and delete them.
• View information on CDN resources as well as create, modify, and delete them.
• Manage log export for the requests to CDN servers.
• Manage origin shielding.
• View information on Cloud CDN quotas.
• View information on the relevant folder.

This role also includes the cdn.editor permissions.

Moving forward, it will additionally include more features.

Primitive rolesPrimitive roles

Primitive roles allow users to perform actions in all Yandex Cloud services.

auditorauditor

The auditor role grants a permission to read configuration and metadata of any Yandex Cloud resources without any access to data.

For instance, users with this role can:

• View info on a resource.
• View the resource metadata.
• View the list of operations with a resource.

auditor is the most secure role that does not grant any access to the service data. This role suits the users who need minimum access to the Yandex Cloud resources.

viewerviewer

The viewer role grants the permissions to read the info on any Yandex Cloud resources.

This role also includes the auditor permissions.

Unlike auditor, the viewer role provides access to service data in read mode.

editoreditor

The editor role provides permissions to manage any Yandex Cloud resources, except for assigning roles to other users, transferring organization ownership, removing an organization, and deleting Key Management Service encryption keys.

For instance, users with this role can create, modify, and delete resources.

This role also includes the viewer permissions.

adminadmin

The admin role enables assigning any roles, except for resource-manager.clouds.owner and organization-manager.organizations.owner, and provides permissions to manage any Yandex Cloud resources (except for transferring organization ownership and removing an organization).

Prior to assigning the admin role for an organization, cloud, or billing account, make sure to check out the information on protecting privileged accounts.

This role also includes the editor permissions.

Instead of primitive roles, we recommend using service roles. This ensures more selective access control and implementation of the principle of least privilege.

For more information about primitive roles, see the Yandex Cloud role reference.

What roles do I needWhat roles do I need

The table below lists the roles required to perform a particular action. You can always assign a role offering more permissions than the one specified. For example, you can assign the editor role instead of viewer.

Action	Required roles
View data
View information about any resource	cdn.viewer for this resource
Manage CDN resources
Create a resource	cdn.editor for the folder where the resources will be created
Change a resource's basic settings	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Disable a resource	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Configure resource caching	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Pre-fetch files to CDN servers	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Clear a resource cache	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Configure HTTP Request and Response headers	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Configure CORS responses to clients	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Configure HTTP methods	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Enable file compression	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Enable file segmentation	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Manage origin groups
Create an origin group	cdn.editor for the folder with an origin group
Change an origin group	cdn.editor for the folder with an origin group
Connect an origin group to a resource	cdn.editor for the folder with the CDN resource
Delete an origin group	cdn.editor for the folder with an origin group
Manage paid features
Origin shielding	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Log export	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Manage resource access
Grant a role, revoke a role, and view roles granted for the resource	admin for the resource

What's nextWhat's next

• How to assign a role.
• How to revoke a role.
• Learn more about access management in Yandex Cloud.
• Learn more about inheriting roles.