Access management in Application Load Balancer

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.

Access managementAccess management

Yandex Identity and Access Management checks all operations in Yandex Cloud. If an entity does not have required permissions, this service returns an error.

To grant permissions for a resource, assign the appropriate resource roles to an entity performing operations, such as 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.

To assign roles for a resource, you need to have 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 to organizations, clouds, and folders also apply to their nested resources.

Which roles exist in the serviceWhich roles exist in the service

The chart below shows service’s roles and their permission inheritance. For example, editor inherits all viewer permissions. You can find role descriptions under the chart.

Service rolesService roles

alb.auditoralb.auditor

The alb.auditor role enables you to view info on the Application Load Balancer resources and quotas.

Users with this role can:

• View the list of L7 balancers and the info on them.
• View the list of HTTP routers and the info on them.
• View the list of virtual hosts and the info on them.
• View the list of backend groups and the info on them.
• View the list of target groups and the info on them.
• View info on the Application Load Balancer quotas.

alb.vieweralb.viewer

The alb.viewer role enables viewing the list of Application Load Balancer resources and the info on them and the relevant quotas.

Users with this role can:

• View the list of L7 balancers and the info on them.
• View the list of HTTP routers and the info on them.
• View the list of virtual hosts and the info on them.
• View the list of backend groups and the info on them.
• View the list of target groups and the info on them.
• View info on the Application Load Balancer quotas.

This role also includes the alb.auditor permissions.

alb.useralb.user

The alb.user role enables using L7 balancers, HTTP routers, backend groups, and target groups, as well as viewing info on the Application Load Balancer resources.

Users with this role can:

• View the list of L7 balancers and info on them, as well as use them.
• View the list of HTTP routers and the info on them, as well as use such routers.
• View the list of virtual hosts and the info on them.
• View the list of backend groups and info on them, as well as use them.
• View the list of target groups and the info on them, as well as use them.
• View info on the Application Load Balancer quotas.

You can assign this role for a folder.

alb.editoralb.editor

The alb.editor role enables managing Application Load Balancer resources and internal network load balancers, as well as viewing info on them and on the cloud networks, subnets, route tables, gateways, security groups, and IP addresses.

Users with this role can:

• View the list of L7 balancers and the info on them, as well as create, modify, delete, and use such balancers.
• View the list of HTTP routers and the info on them, as well as create, modify, delete, and use such routers.
• View the list of virtual hosts and info on them, as well as modify them.
• View the list of backend groups and the info on them, as well as create, modify, delete, and use such groups.
• View the list of L7 balancer target groups and network balancers and the info on them, as well as create, modify, delete, and use target groups.
• View the list of network load balancers and the info on them, as well as create internal network load balances (including those with UDP listeners), modify, delete, start, and stop them.
• View the list of cloud networks and info on them, as well as use them.
• View the list of subnets and info on them, as well as use them.
• View the list of cloud resource addresses and info on them, as well as use such addresses.
• View the list of route tables and info on them, as well as use them.
• View the list of security groups and info on them, as well as use them.
• View information on NAT gateways and connect them to route tables.
• View the info on the used IP addresses in subnets, as well as create internal addresses.
• View the info on operations with the Virtual Private Cloud and Compute Cloud resources.
• View the list of operations with the Network Load Balancer resources.
• View info on the relevant cloud and folder.
• View info on the Application Load Balancer, Network Load Balancer, and Virtual Private Cloud quotas.

This role also includes the load-balancer.privateAdmin and vpc.user permissions.

To connect a public IP address to a new or existing L7 balancer, you also need the vpc.publicAdmin role assigned for the network where the balancer resides.

alb.adminalb.admin

The alb.admin role enables managing Application Load Balancer resources and internal network load balancers, as well as viewing info on cloud networks, subnets, route tables, gateways, security groups, IP addresses, and quotas.

Users with this role can:

• View the list of L7 balancers and the info on them, as well as create, modify, delete, and use such balancers.
• View the list of HTTP routers and the info on them, as well as create, modify, delete, and use such routers.
• View the list of virtual hosts and info on them, as well as modify them.
• View the list of backend groups and the info on them, as well as create, modify, delete, and use such groups.
• View the list of L7 balancer target groups and network balancers and the info on them, as well as create, modify, delete, and use target groups.
• View the list of network load balancers and the info on them, as well as create internal network load balances (including those with UDP listeners), modify, delete, start, and stop them.
• View the list of cloud networks and info on them, as well as use them.
• View the list of subnets and info on them, as well as use them.
• View the list of cloud resource addresses and info on them, as well as use such addresses.
• View the list of route tables and info on them, as well as use them.
• View the list of security groups and info on them, as well as use them.
• View information on NAT gateways and connect them to route tables.
• View the info on the used IP addresses in subnets, as well as create internal addresses.
• View the info on operations with the Virtual Private Cloud and Compute Cloud resources.
• View the list of operations with the Network Load Balancer resources.
• View info on the relevant cloud and folder.
• View info on the Application Load Balancer, Network Load Balancer, and Virtual Private Cloud quotas.

This role also includes the alb.editor permissions.

To connect a public IP address to a new or existing L7 balancer, you also need the vpc.publicAdmin role assigned for the network where the balancer resides.

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 with more granular access control, allowing you to implement the least privilege principle.

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	Methods	Required roles
View data
View information about any resource	get, list, listOperations	alb.viewer for this resource
Manage L7 load balancers
Create and update L7 load balancers with public IP addresses	create	alb.editor and vpc.publicAdmin to the network where the load balancer is located
Create and update L7 load balancers without a public IP address	create	alb.editor
Delete L7 load balancers	update, delete	alb.editor
Get the status of target groups	getTargetStates	alb.viewer
Add, update, and remove listeners	addListener, updateListener, removeListener	alb.editor
Add, update, and remove an SNI match	addSniMatch, updateSniMatch, removeSniMatch	alb.editor
Getting certificates for listeners with TLS encryption	addListener, updateListener	certificate-manager.certificates.downloader
Stop and start an L7 load balancer	stop, start	alb.editor
Manage HTTP routers
Create an HTTP router	create	alb.editor
Update an HTTP router	update	alb.editor
Delete an HTTP router	delete	alb.editor
Manage backend groups
Create and update backend groups	create, update, updateBackend	alb.editor
Delete backend groups	delete	alb.editor
Add resources in a backend group	addBackend	alb.editor
Remove resources in a backend group	removeBackend	alb.editor
Manage target groups
Create and update target groups in a folder	create, update	alb.editor
Delete target groups	delete	alb.editor
Add resources in a target group	addTargets	alb.editor
Remove resources in a target group	removeTargets	alb.editor
Manage resource access
Grant a role, revoke a role, and view roles granted for the resource	setAccessBindings, updateAccessBindings, listAccessBindings	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.