Default Roles

The following roles are system roles that are automatically added to CloudControl. These roles are all view-only. If you want to modify a default role, you must clone it first.

Role Name Role Description
ASC_SuperAdmin

The default super administrator role. Can perform all operations.

ASC_CloudAdmin

The default cloud administrator role. Can perform all operations assigned to the cloud administrator for any of your CloudControl-protected environments.

ASC_CloudControlAuditor

View-only privileges in CloudControl.

ASC_ContainerInfraAdmin

Full access to create/edit/delete/connect operations on pod/deployment/service/namespace/node resources of Kubernetes, OpenShift, and VMware Tanzu cluster(s).

ASC_ContainerSecurityAdmin

Full access to all security controls related operations in CloudControl to author and manage the security posture of Kubernetes, OpenShift, and VMware Tanzu cluster(s) resources. Can log into CloudControl, manage trust manifests, and perform configuration hardening tasks, but cannot add clusters to CloudControl.

ASC_DevopsUsers

Can perform Kubernetes CRUD operations on pods, deployments and services.

ASC_NetworkEngineer

Full access to most networking resources, including logical switches, transport zones, and IP pools. Read-only access to core security-related resources.

ASC_NetworkOperator

Read and write access to most networking resources including logical switches, transport zones, and IP pools. Read-only access to core security-related resources

ASC_LoadBalancerAdmin

Full access to load balancer-related networking resources.

ASC_VPNAdmin

Full access to VPN  networking resources.

ASC_SecurityAuditor

Read-only access to security-related resources.

ASC_SecurityOperator

Read-only access to security operations.

ASC_SecurityAdmin

Full access to security-related resources including firewalls, security groups, IP sets, MAC sets, and services.

ASC_SupervisorClusterAdmin

Can perform vSphere proxy CRUD operations on VMware Tanzu supervisor cluster and namespaces related operations.

ASC_StorageAdmin

Full access to all storage operations.

ASC_NetworkAdmin

The default network administrator role. Can manage virtual networks, virtual switches, and VLANS.

ASC_VMPowerUser

Can start, stop, and suspend VMs, view and change most virtual machine configuration settings, and take snapshots.

ASC_DatacenterAdmin

Can perform actions on all resources within datacenters.

ASC_HostAdmin

Can perform ESXi host maintenance, management, and configuration.

ASC_BoundaryControlUser

The Boundary Control role. This role has privileges to authorize keys from KeyControl based on the boundary control trust manifest.