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In this article:

  • Access management
  • Which resources you can assign a role for
  • Which roles exist in the service
  • Service roles
  • Primitive roles
  • What roles do I need

Access management in Network Load Balancer

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Yandex Cloud
Updated at May 5, 2025
  • Access management
  • Which resources you can assign a role for
  • Which roles exist in the service
    • Service roles
    • Primitive roles
  • What roles do I need

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

load-balancer.auditorload-balancer.auditor

The load-balancer.auditor role enables viewing the list of target groups and network load balancers, as well as viewing the info on them and on the Network Load Balancer quotas.

Users with this role can:

  • View the list of target groups and the info on them.
  • View the list of network load balancers and the info on them.
  • View the list of operations with the Network Load Balancer resources.
  • View information on the relevant cloud and folder.
  • View info on Network Load Balancer quotas.

load-balancer.viewerload-balancer.viewer

The load-balancer.viewer role enables viewing the list of target groups and network load balancers, as well as viewing the info on them, the list of operations on them, the info on the relevant cloud and folder, and the Network Load Balancer quotas.

Users with this role can:

  • View the list of target groups and the info on them.
  • View the list of network load balancers and the info on them.
  • View the list of operations with the Network Load Balancer resources.
  • View information on the relevant cloud and folder.
  • View info on Network Load Balancer quotas.

This role includes the load-balancer.auditor permissions.

load-balancer.privateAdminload-balancer.privateAdmin

The load-balancer.privateAdmin role enables managing internal network load balancers and target groups, 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 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 target groups and the info on them, as well as create, modify, delete, and use target groups.
  • View the list of cloud networks and the info on them.
  • View the list of subnets and info on them, as well as use them.
  • View the list of cloud resource addresses and the info on them.
  • View the list of route tables and the info on them.
  • View the list of security groups and the info on them.
  • View information on NAT gateways.
  • 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 information on the relevant cloud and folder.
  • View info on Network Load Balancer and Virtual Private Cloud quotas.

This role includes the load-balancer.viewer and vpc.viewer permissions.

load-balancer.editorload-balancer.editor

The load-balancer.editor role enables managing internal and external network load balancers and target groups, as well as viewing info on them and on the cloud networks, subnets, route tables, gateways, security groups, and IP addresses. The role does not allow creating public IP addresses.

Users with this role can:

  • View the list of network load balancers and info on them.
  • Create internal and external network load balancers and those with UDP listeners, as well as modify, delete, start, and stop load balancers.
  • View the list of target groups and the info on them, as well as create, modify, delete, and use target groups.
  • View the list of cloud networks and info on them, as well as set up external access to them.
  • View the list of subnets and info on them, as well as use them.
  • View the list of cloud resource addresses and the info on them.
  • View the list of route tables and the info on them.
  • View the list of security groups and the info on them.
  • View information on NAT gateways.
  • View the info on the used IP addresses, create private addresses and use them.
  • 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 information on the relevant cloud and folder.
  • View info on Network Load Balancer and Virtual Private Cloud quotas.

This role includes the load-balancer.privateAdmin permissions.

load-balancer.adminload-balancer.admin

The load-balancer.admin role enables managing internal and external network load balancers and target groups, 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 network load balancers and info on them.
  • Create internal and external network load balancers and those with UDP listeners, as well as modify, delete, start, and stop load balancers.
  • View the list of target groups and the info on them, as well as create, modify, delete, and use target groups.
  • View the list of cloud networks and info on them, as well as set up external access to them.
  • View the list of subnets and info on them, as well as use them.
  • View the list of cloud resource addresses and the info on them.
  • View the list of route tables and the info on them.
  • View the list of security groups and the info on them.
  • View information on NAT gateways.
  • View the info on the used IP addresses, create private and public addresses, and use them.
  • 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 information on the relevant cloud and folder.
  • View info on Network Load Balancer and Virtual Private Cloud quotas.

This role includes the load-balancer.editor permissions.

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.

Any operations with a network load balancer that has a public IP address require the load-balancer.admin role. In networks hosting target groups, you can use the vpc.publicAdmin role instead. Operations on the internal network load balancer require the load-balancer.privateAdmin role and operations on its target groups, the load-balancer.privateAdmin or compute.admin role.

Operations on target groups located in subnets which do not have the specified administrative roles require the vpc.user role for those subnets.

Action Methods Required roles
Viewing data
Viewing information about any resource get, list, listOperations viewer for the resource
Manage network load balancers
Create and update load balancers in folders create load-balancer.privateAdmin / load-balancer.admin or editor for the folder and networks hosting the target groups (if the load balancer is public)
Delete load balancers update, delete load-balancer.privateAdmin / load-balancer.admin or editor for the load balancer
Attach target groups attachTargetGroup load-balancer.privateAdmin / load-balancer.admin or editor for the folder and networks hosting the target groups (if the load balancer is public)
Detach target groups detachTargetGroup load-balancer.privateAdmin / load-balancer.admin or editor for the load balancer
Get the status of target groups getTargetStates load-balancer.viewer or viewer for the load balancer and specified target groups
Add and remove listeners addListener, removeListener load-balancer.privateAdmin / load-balancer.admin or editor for the load balancer
Stop and start a load balancer stop, start load-balancer.privateAdmin / load-balancer.admin or editor for the load balancer
Manage target groups
Create and update target groups in folders create load-balancer.privateAdmin / load-balancer.admin or editor for the folder and subnets where target groups are located
Delete target groups update, delete load-balancer.privateAdmin / load-balancer.admin or editor for the target group and load balancer
Add resources in a target group addTargets load-balancer.privateAdmin / load-balancer.admin or editor for the target group, load balancer, and subnets where target groups are located
Remove resources in a target group removeTargets load-balancer.privateAdmin / load-balancer.admin or editor for the target group
Resource access management
Granting a role, revoking a role, and viewing roles granted for the resource setAccessBindings, updateAccessBindings, listAccessBindings admin for the resource

What's next {what-is-next}What'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.

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