Failed to create cluster-role

Question

I’m trying to create a cluster-role and getting the following error

error from server (Forbidden): error when creating "prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator-cluster-role.yaml": clusterroles.rbac.authorization.k8s.io "prometheus-operator" is forbidden: attempt to grant extra privileges: [{[create] [extensions] [thirdpartyresources] [] []} {[*] [monitoring.coreos.com] [alertmanagers] [] []} {[*] [monitoring.coreos.com] [prometheuses] [] []} {[*] [monitoring.coreos.com] [servicemonitors] [] []} {[*] [apps] [statefulsets] [] []} {[*] [] [configmaps] [] []} {[*] [] [secrets] [] []} {[list] [] [pods] [] []} {[delete] [] [pods] [] []} {[get] [] [services] [] []} {[create] [] [services] [] []} {[update] [] [services] [] []} {[get] [] [endpoints] [] []} {[create] [] [endpoints] [] []} {[update] [] [endpoints] [] []} {[list] [] [nodes] [] []} {[watch] [] [nodes] [] []}] user=&{<<my_account>>@gmail.com [system:authenticated] map[]} ownerrules=[{[create] [authorization.k8s.io] [selfsubjectaccessreviews] [] []} {[get] [] [] [] [/api /api/* /apis /apis/* /healthz /swaggerapi /swaggerapi/* /version]}] ruleResolutionErrors=[]

Answer 1

To overcome this, you must grant your current Google identity cluster-admin Role:

# get current google identity

$ gcloud info | grep Account

Account: [myname@example.org]

# grant cluster-admin to your current identity

$ kubectl create clusterrolebinding myname-cluster-admin-binding --clusterrole=cluster-admin --user=myname@example.org

Clusterrolebinding "myname-cluster-admin-binding" created