Permission Manager

Infrastructure

kubernetes access management

SHOW HN2020

Permission Manager

Kubernetes Permission Manager, Free and OSS Tool to Manage RBAC/Users

github.com

#kubernetes#rbac#user management#kubernetes certificates

37points
8comments
#1,246of 3,028 in 2020
Top 42%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

2 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.25.

Idea: 2 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Solves an important Kubernetes access problem

    From 2 comments
    • Thanks, this solves a very important problem in the k8s ecosystem. For me personally, I've spent the weekends of the last two months learning ldap basics only to find out that…
      znpy on HN
    • This is honestly pretty fantastic. How does this compare with things like Dex+Gangway?
      aliljet on HN

Objections

  • Unclear who the target users are; integrations with cloud auth are more common

    From 1 comment
    • It might be good to clarify your expected users. Most Kubernetes users I have worked with integrated with some cloud provider auth or similar to grant permissions to Kubernetes…
      charlieegan3 on HN

Requests

  • GitOps / config-as-code support

    From 2 comments
    • It might be good to clarify your expected users. Most Kubernetes users I have worked with integrated with some cloud provider auth or similar to grant permissions to Kubernetes…
      charlieegan3 on HN
    • You are entirely correct, we started this project as an internal tool to be used in any environment where no integration with IAM/OIDC/LDAP/AD/etc.. was available (we handle LOTS…
      jnardiello on HN
  • Integration with AWS IAM users and roles

    From 1 comment
    • This looks very cool. Is there a story for managing users associated with AWS IAM roles or users?
      benwilson-512 on HN

Questions

  • How does it compare to Dex+Gangway

    From 1 comment
    • This is honestly pretty fantastic. How does this compare with things like Dex+Gangway?
      aliljet on HN
  • Relation to OPA

    From 1 comment
    • so, can you compare this to the OPA? Are you integrating with the OPA? Also, there was an old project called casbin which is used by ArgoCD. In my system, I created an Account…
      streetcat1 on HN

Alternatives named

  • Dex+Gangway

    From 1 comment
    • This is honestly pretty fantastic. How does this compare with things like Dex+Gangway?
      aliljet on HN
  • OPA / Gatekeeper

    From 1 comment
    • so, can you compare this to the OPA? Are you integrating with the OPA? Also, there was an old project called casbin which is used by ArgoCD. In my system, I created an Account…
      streetcat1 on HN
  • casbin

    From 1 comment
    • so, can you compare this to the OPA? Are you integrating with the OPA? Also, there was an old project called casbin which is used by ArgoCD. In my system, I created an Account…
      streetcat1 on HN

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