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Status Future consideration
Categories Databases
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 24, 2024

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Allow creating read-only Service Credentials for IBM Cloud Databases for Postgres

Currently we can only create read/write Service Credentials for IBM Cloud Databases for Postgres. However in some cases such as when a SRE or dev needs to investigate the database, they only require read-only access, so it would be nice to be able to have separate read-only credentials to be used by those users.


The documentation at https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-postgresql?topic=databases-for-postgresql-user-management&interface=ui says that read only users can only be created directly in Postgres, but this comes at the disadvantage of not being able to integrate those credentials with access control (IAM)

Idea priority High
Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)
  • Guest
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    |     Sep 11, 2024

    The "ibm-cloud-base-user" role is currently automatically added to any user created through the ICD APIs for postgres and that API doesn't allow for specifying different roles.   Our team also has the need to support a mix of app-functional users which should only have read/write for their specific databases and devops/developers users who should only have read-only access.   This idea creator and my team would benefit from the ability to specify which roles a given user should be assigned to (just a few predefined roles would be fine) and then we can configure those database permissions against those roles with our default admin id that ICD gives us. 

    To manage this in an automated fashion, we're ideally looking for the role parameter at https://registry.terraform.io/providers/IBM-Cloud/ibm/latest/docs/resources/database#role to support postgres (like it does for Redis).  We are focused on managing this through terraform's ICD provider because that flow lets us cleanly manage blue-green-user password rotation via IBM Schematics.

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