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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Sterling External Authentication Server
Categories Administration & Configuration
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 25, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Default rolebindings should not specify all serviceaccounts

The helm chart provides some yamls for createing role bindings in /ibm_cloud_pak/pak_extensions/pre-install/namespaceadministration

These role bindings are set up to bind to all service accounts:

subjects:-

apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io

kind: Group

name: system:serviceaccounts

namespace: {{ NAMESPACE }}


They should be set up to only bind to the serviceaccount the customer specifies. Here's the B2BI example as a reference:

subjects:

- kind: ServiceAccount

name: default

namespace: <namespace>


This also applies to SSP.

What is your industry? Non-Industry Specific
How will this idea be used?

simplify container deployment for customers
  • Admin
    James Joseph
    Apr 22, 2026

    Thank you for taking the time to provide your ideas to IBM. After discussing with development,we believe, implementing this change does not align with broader roadmap.

    RoleBindings was used to associate a role with a service account, and RoleBindings were an essential part of the Pod Security Policy (PSP) enforcement mechanism. But PSP has been removed from Kubernetes in v1.25, and a different concept of Pod Security Admission (PSA) controller has been introduced, so accordingly, SSP and SEAS has also removed the RoleBindings creation logic.

    For the above reasons, I am putting this as "Not under consideration" and we can revisit this once we see interest from more customers (via Voting or Comments)
    I understand that this is not the answer you were expecting however if you have any additional feedback, thoughts or ideas, or if there is anything else I can do, please do not hesitate to reply to this message to continue the conversation. Appreciate your patience.

    Thanks,

    James

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  • Admin
    James Joseph
    Mar 2, 2026

    Thank you for taking the time to share your ideas to IBM. We truly value our relationship with you and appreciate your efforts and willingness to share details about your experience, your recommendations, and ideas. We will soon review the same in the coming weeks and shall get back with a response.
    Thanks,

    James

    Reply

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