Giving access to resources in resource groups

With IBM Cloud IAM, you have the flexibility to provide fine-grained user access to the resources and resource groups in your account.

You can assign the following types of access policies for users to work with resources in resource groups:

Access to resources within a resource group. You can grant access to all resources in a group, or only selected services within a group.
Access to a resource group itself, which enables users to view and edit the resource group, assign access for others to manage the resource group, and most importantly create and add new service instances to a resource group.

Assign a user a role to manage a specific resource group. Then, the user can view billing and usage information for resources that are contained in that resource group.

Review the following table for more information what each assigned platform IAM role provides a user the ability to do:

Table 1. Access for resource groups
This table has row and column headers. The row headers identify the selected role of an access policy. The column headers identify the type of policy whether its assigning access to manage a resource group or access to resources within a resource group. The remaining cells tell you the allowable actions based on the type of policy and the specific role that is selected as defined in the header rows.
Role	Actions for Access to Manage Resource Groups	Actions on Resources in Resource Groups
Viewer role	View the group and its characteristics, but can't view resources in the group without a policy on the resource itself	View resources in the group if a viewer role or higher is assigned on the resource group itself
Operator role	Not applicable	Not applicable
Editor role	View or edit the name or other characteristics of the group, but not the resources in the group	Create, delete, edit, suspend, resume, view, bind, and manage access of resources in the resource group
Administrator role	View, edit, or manage access for the group, but not the resources in the group	Create, delete, edit, suspend, resume, view, bind, and manage access of resources in the resource group

If you want a user to create a new service instance and add it to a resource group, you must assign a viewer role or higher on the resource group and an editor role or higher on the service.