rback vs rbac-manager

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rback		rbac-manager
	Project
1	Mentions	4
393	Stars	1,408
1.3%	Growth	1.2%
0.0	Activity	5.5
over 3 years ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
Go	Language	Go
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

rback

Posts with mentions or reviews of rback. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-07.

Visualising RBAC on Kubernetes
3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 7 Jun 2021

I've been using rback

rbac-manager

Posts with mentions or reviews of rbac-manager. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-07.

rbac with denies
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 25 Jul 2022
Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Clusters: Challenges and Useful Tooling
5 projects | dev.to | 7 Jun 2022

While RBAC is not particularly the toughest aspect of multi-tenancy, there are tools to help you with it. RBAC Manager was developed by Fairwinds to make security just a bit easier.
RBAC and limited namespace access
2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 19 Dec 2021
RBAC for dynamic namespaces?
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 17 Feb 2021

We have a use case similar to this and we use rbac-manager. If you can have something externally provision the namespaces with labels, I think it might work for you. If not, maybe some combination with OPA Gatekeeper could do the trick?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rback and rbac-manager you can also consider the following projects:

lens-resource-map-extension - Lens - The Kubernetes IDE extension that displays Kubernetes resources and their relations as a force graph.

rbac-lookup - Easily find roles and cluster roles attached to any user, service account, or group name in your Kubernetes cluster

kubesurveyor - Good enough Kubernetes namespace visualization tool

cert-manager - Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes

krane - Kubernetes RBAC static analysis & visualisation tool

audit2rbac - Autogenerate RBAC policies based on Kubernetes audit logs

go-callvis - Visualize call graph of a Go program using Graphviz

hierarchical-namespaces - Home of the Hierarchical Namespace Controller (HNC). Adds hierarchical policies and delegated creation to Kubernetes namespaces for improved in-cluster multitenancy.

Gravitational Teleport - The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.

pluto - A cli tool to help discover deprecated apiVersions in Kubernetes

spicedb - Open Source, Google Zanzibar-inspired permissions database to enable fine-grained access control for customer applications