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Certified Kubernetes Administrator CKA (Kubernetes v1.35 curriculum) · Domain 1: Cluster Architecture, Installation and Configuration

RBAC: Roles, ClusterRoles, RoleBindings, ClusterRoleBindings, aggregated and built-in roles, users via CertificateSigningRequests, kubectl auth can-i

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

Role-based access control (RBAC) decides what an authenticated identity may do. Permissions are always additive: there are no deny rules, so a user can do only what some role grants. Each rule lists API groups, resources and verbs such as get, list, watch, create, update, patch and delete.

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