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Chapter 8. Access management for Red Hat Quay

Access management in Red Hat Quay controls who can use repositories through users, teams, and robot accounts. You can set roles and permissions for collaborative registry workflows.

As a Quay user, you can create your own repositories and make them accessible to other users that are part of your instance. Alternatively, you can create an organization and associate a set of repositories directly to that organization, referred to as an organization repository.

Organization repositories differ from basic repositories in that the organization is intended to set up shared repositories through groups of users. In Quay, groups of users can be either Teams, or sets of users with the same permissions, or individual users. You can also allow access to user repositories and organization repositories by creating credentials associated with Robot Accounts. Robot Accounts make it easy for a variety of container clients, such as Docker or Podman, to access your repositories without requiring that the client have a user account.

8.1. Red Hat Quay teams overview
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A team in Quay is a group of users that share permissions, which simplifies access control and collaboration across organizations and repositories. You can assign a team specific permissions so that its members have appropriate access based on their roles.

8.1.1. Creating a team by using the UI
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To create a team in Red Hat Quay, you can use the UI. You add a team under an organization and then assign members and roles.

When you create a team for your organization you can select the team name, choose which repositories to make available to the team, and decide the level of access to the team.

Use the following procedure to create a team for your organization repository.

Prerequisites

  • You have created an organization.

Procedure

  1. On the Red Hat Quay v2 UI, click the name of an organization.
  2. On your organization’s page, click Teams and membership.
  3. Click the Create new team box.
  4. In the Create team popup window, provide a name for your new team.
  5. Optional. Provide a description for your new team.
  6. Click Proceed. A new popup window appears.

  7. Optional. Add this team to a repository, and set the permissions to one of the following:

    • None. Team members have no permission to the repository.
    • Read. Team members can view and pull from the repository.
    • Write. Team members can read (pull) from and write (push) to the repository.
    • Admin. Full access to pull from, and push to, the repository, plus the ability to do administrative tasks associated with the repository.
  8. Optional. Add a team member or robot account. To add a team member, enter the name of their Red Hat Quay account.
  9. Review and finish the information, then click Review and Finish. The new team appears under the Teams and membership page.

8.1.2. Managing a team by using the UI
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After you create a team in Quay, you can manage members, repository permissions, and team details in the UI. You can also delete a team that you no longer need.

8.1.2.1. Adding users to a team by using the UI
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To add users to a team in Quay, you can use the UI. You invite members so they inherit the team’s repository permissions.

With administrative privileges to an Organization, you can add users and robot accounts to a team. When you add a user, Quay sends an email to that user. The user remains pending until they accept the invitation.

Use the following procedure to add users or robot accounts to a team.

Procedure

  1. On the Red Hat Quay landing page, click the name of your Organization.
  2. In the navigation pane, click Teams and Membership.
  3. Select the menu kebab of the team that you want to add users or robot accounts to. Then, click Manage team members.
  4. Click Add new member.

  5. In the textbox, enter information for one of the following:

    • A username from an account on the registry.
    • The email address for a user account on the registry.

    • The name of a robot account. The name must be in the form of <organization_name>+<robot_name>.

      Note

      Robot Accounts are immediately added to the team. For user accounts, an invitation to join is mailed to the user. Until the user accepts that invitation, the user remains in the INVITED TO JOIN state. After the user accepts the email invitation to join the team, they move from the INVITED TO JOIN list to the MEMBERS list for the Organization.

  6. Click Add member.

8.1.2.2. Setting a team role by using the UI
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To assign a role to a team within a Quay organization, you can use the UI. Team roles determine a member’s permissions, such as administrative or contributor access.

Prerequisites

  • You have created a team.

Procedure

  1. On the Red Hat Quay landing page, click the name of your Organization.
  2. In the navigation pane, click Teams and Membership.

  3. Select the TEAM ROLE drop-down menu, as shown in the following figure:

    Set the role that a team has within an organization

  4. For the selected team, choose one of the following roles:

    • Admin. Full administrative access to the organization, including the ability to create teams, add members, and set permissions.
    • Member. Inherits all permissions set for the team.
    • Creator. All member permissions, plus the ability to create new repositories.

To manage team members and set repository permissions for a team, you can use the Quay UI. You can add or remove members, and adjust access levels for each repository.

Procedure

  • On the Teams and membership page of your organization, you can also manage team members and set repository permissions.

    • Click the kebab menu, and select one of the following options:
    • Manage Team Members. On this page, you can view all members, team members, robot accounts, or users who have been invited. You can also add a new team member by clicking Add new member.

    • Set repository permissions. On this page, you can set the repository permissions to one of the following:

      • None. Team members have no permission to the repository.
      • Read. Team members can view and pull from the repository.
      • Write. Team members can read (pull) from and write (push) to the repository.
      • Admin. Full access to pull from, and push to, the repository, plus the ability to do administrative tasks associated with the repository.
    • Delete. This popup window allows you to delete the team by clicking Delete.

To review team details in Quay, you can use the Teams and membership page. You can switch among team, members, and collaborators views.

Use the following procedure to view general information about the team.

Procedure

  • On the Teams and membership page of your organization, you can click the one of the following options to reveal more information about teams, members, and collaborators:

    • Team View. This menu shows all team names, the number of members, the number of repositories, and the role for each team.
    • Members View. This menu shows all usernames of team members, the teams that they are part of, the repository permissions of the user.
    • Collaborators View. This menu shows repository collaborators. Collaborators are users that do not belong to any team in the organization, but who have direct permissions on one or more repositories belonging to the organization.

You can manage teams in Red Hat Quay by using the API. You can view permissions, add or remove members, and delete organization teams.

The following modules show you how to manage a team by using the Red Hat Quay API.

To view repository permissions for a team or set a team’s role in an Red Hat Quay organization, you can use the organization team API endpoints with an OAuth access token.

Prerequisites

  • You have created an OAuth access token.

Procedure

  1. Enter the following GET /api/v1/organization/{orgname}/team/{teamname}/permissions command to return a list of repository permissions for the organization’s team. Note that your team must have been added to a repository for this command to return information. 

    $ curl -X GET \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <your_access_token>" \
  "<quay-server.example.com>/api/v1/organization/<organization_name>/team/<team_name>/permissions"

    Example output

    {"permissions": [{"repository": {"name": "api-repo", "is_public": true}, "role": "admin"}]}

  2. You can create or update a team within an organization to have a specified role of admin, member, or creator using the PUT /api/v1/organization/{orgname}/team/{teamname} command. For example: 

    $ curl -X PUT \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <your_access_token>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "role": "<role>"
  }' \
  "<quay-server.example.com>/api/v1/organization/<organization_name>/team/<team_name>"

    Example output

    {"name": "testteam", "description": "", "can_view": true, "role": "creator", "avatar": {"name": "testteam", "hash": "827f8c5762148d7e85402495b126e0a18b9b168170416ed04b49aae551099dc8", "color": "#ff7f0e", "kind": "team"}, "new_team": false}

To grant access automatically when users create repositories in Red Hat Quay, you can configure default permissions in the UI. Default permissions apply to a selected user, robot, or team in addition to the repository creator.

Procedure

  1. Click the name of an organization.
  2. Click Default permissions.
  3. Click Create default permissions. A toggle drawer appears.

  4. Select either Anyone or Specific user to create a default permission when a repository is created.

    1. If selecting Anyone, the following information must be provided:

      • Applied to. Search, invite, or add a user/robot/team.
      • Permission. Set the permission to one of Read, Write, or Admin.

    2. If selecting Specific user, the following information must be provided:

      • Repository creator. Provide either a user or robot account.
      • Applied to. Provide a username, robot account, or team name.
      • Permission. Set the permission to one of Read, Write, or Admin.
  5. Click Create default permission. A confirmation box appears, returning the following alert: Successfully created default permission for creator.

To change access for a user or robot account on a repository, you can use the Quay UI. You can set Read, Write, or Admin permissions.

Prerequisites

  • You have created a user account or robot account.

Procedure

  1. Log into Quay.
  2. On the v2 UI, click Repositories.
  3. Click the name of a repository, for example, quayadmin/busybox.
  4. Click the Settings tab.

  5. Optional. Click User and robot permissions. You can adjust the settings for a user or robot account by clicking the dropdown menu option under Permissions. You can change the settings to Read, Write, or Admin.

    • Read. The User or Robot Account can view and pull from the repository.
    • Write. The User or Robot Account can read (pull) from and write (push) to the repository.
    • Admin. The User or Robot account has access to pull from, and push to, the repository, plus the ability to do administrative tasks associated with the repository.
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