Check whether an action is allowed.

  • VERB is a logical Kubernetes API verb like get, list, watch, delete, etc.
  • TYPE is a Kubernetes resource. Shortcuts and groups will be resolved.
  • NONRESOURCEURL is a partial URL that starts with /.
  • NAME is the name of a particular Kubernetes resource.

This command pairs nicely with impersonation. See --as global flag.

Syntax

werf kubectl auth can-i VERB [TYPE | TYPE/NAME | NONRESOURCEURL] [options]

Examples

  # Check to see if I can create pods in any namespace
  kubectl auth can-i create pods --all-namespaces
  
  # Check to see if I can list deployments in my current namespace
  kubectl auth can-i list deployments.apps
  
  # Check to see if service account "foo" of namespace "dev" can list pods
  # in the namespace "prod".
  # You must be allowed to use impersonation for the global option "--as".
  kubectl auth can-i list pods --as=system:serviceaccount:dev:foo -n prod
  
  # Check to see if I can do everything in my current namespace ("*" means all)
  kubectl auth can-i '*' '*'
  
  # Check to see if I can get the job named "bar" in namespace "foo"
  kubectl auth can-i list jobs.batch/bar -n foo
  
  # Check to see if I can read pod logs
  kubectl auth can-i get pods --subresource=log
  
  # Check to see if I can access the URL /logs/
  kubectl auth can-i get /logs/
  
  # List all allowed actions in namespace "foo"
  kubectl auth can-i --list --namespace=foo

Options

  -A, --all-namespaces=false
            If true, check the specified action in all namespaces.
      --list=false
            If true, prints all allowed actions.
      --no-headers=false
            If true, prints allowed actions without headers
  -q, --quiet=false
            If true, suppress output and just return the exit code.
      --subresource=''
            SubResource such as pod/log or deployment/scale

Options inherited from parent commands

      --as=''
            Username to impersonate for the operation. User could be a regular user or a service    
            account in a namespace.
      --as-group=[]
            Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple   
            groups.
      --as-uid=''
            UID to impersonate for the operation.
      --cache-dir='~/.kube/cache'
            Default cache directory
      --certificate-authority=''
            Path to a cert file for the certificate authority
      --client-certificate=''
            Path to a client certificate file for TLS
      --client-key=''
            Path to a client key file for TLS
      --cluster=''
            The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
      --context=''
            The name of the kubeconfig context to use (default $WERF_KUBE_CONTEXT)
      --disable-compression=false
            If true, opt-out of response compression for all requests to the server
      --home-dir=''
            Use specified dir to store werf cache files and dirs (default $WERF_HOME or ~/.werf)
      --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false
            If true, the server`s certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your 
            HTTPS connections insecure (default $WERF_SKIP_TLS_VERIFY_REGISTRY)
      --kube-config-base64=''
            Kubernetes config data as base64 string (default $WERF_KUBE_CONFIG_BASE64 or            
            $WERF_KUBECONFIG_BASE64 or $KUBECONFIG_BASE64)
      --kubeconfig=''
            Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests (default $WERF_KUBE_CONFIG, or      
            $WERF_KUBECONFIG, or $KUBECONFIG). Ignored if kubeconfig passed as base64.
      --match-server-version=false
            Require server version to match client version
  -n, --namespace=''
            If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
      --password=''
            Password for basic authentication to the API server
      --profile='none'
            Name of profile to capture. One of (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex)
      --profile-output='profile.pprof'
            Name of the file to write the profile to
      --request-timeout='0'
            The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server request. Non-zero values 
            should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don`t 
            timeout requests.
  -s, --server=''
            The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
      --tls-server-name=''
            Server name to use for server certificate validation. If it is not provided, the        
            hostname used to contact the server is used
      --tmp-dir=''
            Use specified dir to store tmp files and dirs (default $WERF_TMP_DIR or system tmp dir)
      --token=''
            Bearer token for authentication to the API server
      --user=''
            The name of the kubeconfig user to use
      --username=''
            Username for basic authentication to the API server
      --warnings-as-errors=false
            Treat warnings received from the server as errors and exit with a non-zero exit code