Configuring cluster roles for Che users

You can grant Che users more cluster permissions by adding cluster roles to those users.

Prerequisites

An active kubectl session with administrative permissions to the destination Kubernetes cluster. See Overview of kubectl.

Procedure

Define the user roles name:
```
$ USER_ROLES=<name> (1)
```
1 Unique resource name.

Find out the namespace where the Che Operator is deployed:

$ OPERATOR_NAMESPACE=$(kubectl get pods -l app.kubernetes.io/component=che-operator -o jsonpath={".items[0].metadata.namespace"} --all-namespaces)

Create needed roles:

$ kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
kind: ClusterRole
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
  name: ${USER_ROLES}
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: che.eclipse.org
rules:
  - verbs:
      - <verbs> (1)
    apiGroups:
      - <apiGroups> (2)
    resources:
      - <resources> (3)
EOF

1	As `<verbs>`, list all Verbs that apply to all ResourceKinds and AttributeRestrictions contained in this rule. You can use `*` to represent all verbs.
2	As `<apiGroups>`, name the APIGroups that contain the resources.
3	As `<resources>`, list all resources that this rule applies to. You can use `*` to represent all verbs.

Delegate the roles to the Che Operator:

$ kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
  name: ${USER_ROLES}-operator
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: che.eclipse.org
subjects:
  - kind: ServiceAccount
    name: che-operator
    namespace: ${OPERATOR_NAMESPACE}
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: ${USER_ROLES}
EOF

Configure the Che Operator to delegate the roles to the che service account:

$ kubectl patch checluster eclipse-che \
  --patch '{"spec": {"components": {"cheServer": {"clusterRoles": ["'${USER_ROLES}'"]}}}}' \
  --type=merge -n eclipse-che

Configure the Che server to delegate the roles to a user:

$ kubectl patch checluster eclipse-che \
  --patch '{"spec": {"devEnvironments": {"user": {"clusterRoles": ["'${USER_ROLES}'"]}}}}' \
  --type=merge -n eclipse-che

Wait for the rollout of the Che server components to be completed.
Ask the user to log out and log in to have the new roles applied.