Access management in Cloud CDN

Cloud CDN uses roles to manage access permissions.

In this section, you will learn:

• What resources support role assignment.
• What roles this service has.
• What roles are required for specific actions.

Access managementAccess management

Delphi Identity and Access Management checks all operations in Delphi 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 Delphi account, service account, federated users, user group, system group, or public group. For more information, see How access management works in Delphi 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

Resources supporting role assignmentResources supporting role assignment

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.

Roles this service hasRoles this service has

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

auditorauditor

The auditor role grants a permission to read configuration and metadata of any Delphi 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 Delphi Cloud resources.

viewerviewer

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

This role 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 Delphi 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 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 Delphi 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 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 Delphi Cloud role reference.

What roles do I needWhat roles do I need

The table below lists the roles required for specific actions. You can always assign a role with more permissions. For example, you can assign the editor role instead of viewer.

Action	Required roles
Viewing data
Viewing resource details	cdn.viewer for the resource
Managing CDN resources
Creating a resource	cdn.editor for the folder to host new resources
Updating basic settings of a resource	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Disabling a resource	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Configuring resource caching	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Pre-loading files to CDN servers	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Purging resource cache	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Configuring HTTP request and response headers	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Configuring CORS for responses to clients	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Configuring HTTP methods	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Enabling file compression	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Enabling file segmentation	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Managing origin groups
Creating an origin group	cdn.editor for the folder with the origin group
Updating an origin group	cdn.editor for the folder with the origin group
Adding an origin group to a resource	cdn.editor for the folder with the CDN resource
Deleting an origin group	cdn.editor for the folder with the origin group
Managing paid features
Origin shielding	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Log export	cdn.editor for the folder with CDN resources
Managing resource access
Granting, revoking, and viewing roles for a 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 Delphi Cloud.
• Learn more about role inheritance.