EX280 User And RBAC Management Practice Question
A cluster administrator wants to grant a group of users read access to all Pod logs across every namespace in the cluster. Which ClusterRole and binding approach should be used?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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ClusterRole with apiGroups: [''], resources: ['pods/log'], verbs: ['get'] bound via ClusterRoleBinding
Reading pod logs requires permissions on the 'pods/log' subresource. A ClusterRole granting 'get' on 'pods/log' combined with a ClusterRoleBinding achieves this cluster-wide.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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ClusterRole with apiGroups: [''], resources: ['pods/log'], verbs: ['get'] bound via ClusterRoleBinding
Why this is correct
Accessing logs across namespaces requires permission on the 'pods/log' subresource bound cluster-wide.
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RoleBinding in each individual namespace pointing to the 'view' ClusterRole
Why it's wrong here
Creating RoleBindings in every namespace is tedious and does not scale compared to a single ClusterRoleBinding.
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SecurityContextConstraints modification
Why it's wrong here
SCCs do not govern log API access permissions.
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ClusterRole with apiGroups: ['apps'], resources: ['deployments/scale'], verbs: ['get']
Why it's wrong here
This grants scaling permissions on deployments, not pod log reading.
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