Roles and Permissions (RBAC)

Overview

Bytebase employs RBAC (Role-Based-Access-Control) and provides two role sets at the workspace and project level:

• Workspace roles: Owner, DBA, Developer
• Project roles: Owner, Developer, Querier, Exporter

The workspace role maps to the role in an engineering organization, while the project level role maps to the role in a specific team or project. Every user is assigned a workspace role, and if a particular user is involved in a particular project, then she will also be assigned a project role accordingly.

Above diagram describes the mapping between an engineering org and the corresponding roles in the Bytebase workspace. Note, a particular user can be assigned multiple roles as well:

• A user can only be assigned one of the workspace roles.
• In a particular project, a user can be assigned one of the project roles, while a user can be assigned different project roles in the different projects.

Real-world scenarios:

• Engineering orgs may not establish a dedicated DBA or platform engineering group. In such case, usaually the application engineering group head and the tech leads will wear those hats. Say a user named Alice can be a Workspace DBA and a Project Owner for Project Apollo at the same time.

• An application developer could be involved in multiple projects. In such case, that engineer would also be assigned project roles in different projects respectively. Say a user named Bob can be a Workspace Developer, a Project Owner for Project Apollo and a Project Developer for Project Mars at the same time.

Workspace roles

By default, the first registered user is granted the Owner role, all following registered users are granted Developer role. Owner can update any user's role later.

Workspace Permission	Developer	DBA	Owner
Change own name and password	✔️	✔️	✔️
Add new user			✔️
View all users	✔️	✔️	✔️
Change any user's role			✔️
De-activate/re-activate user			✔️
Change any user's name and password			✔️
Add environment		✔️	✔️
View all environments	✔️	✔️	✔️
Edit environment		✔️	✔️
Reorder environment		✔️	✔️
Archive environment		✔️	✔️
View all instances		✔️	✔️
Add instance		✔️	✔️
Edit instance		✔️	✔️
Archive instance		✔️	✔️
Sync instance schema		✔️	✔️
Create database	Not allowed in Enterprise	✔️	✔️
View all databases		✔️	✔️
Create project	✔️	✔️	✔️
View all projects		✔️	✔️
Create issue	✔️	✔️	✔️
View all issues		✔️	✔️
Become issue assignee		✔️	✔️
Re-assign issue		✔️	✔️
Add comment to all issues	✔️	✔️	✔️
Subscribe to all issues	✔️	✔️	✔️
Alter schema	✔️	✔️	✔️
Change data	✔️	✔️	✔️
Configure SQL Review Policy		✔️	✔️
Manage version control system (VCS) provider			✔️
Manage sensitive data		✔️	✔️
Manage database acccess control		✔️	✔️
Manage IM integration			✔️
Change logo			✔️

Project roles

Any user can create project. By default, the project creator is granted the Project Owner role. Workspace DBA and Workspace Owner assume the Project Owner role for all projects.

Project Permission	Project Querier	Project Exporter	Project Developer	Project Owner	Workspace DBA	Workspace Owner
Sync sheet from VCS			✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Change project role				✔️	✔️	✔️
Edit project				✔️	✔️	✔️
Archive project				✔️	✔️	✔️
Configure UI/GitOps workflow				✔️	✔️	✔️

Database permissions

Bytebase does not define database specific roles. Whether a user can perform certain action to the database is based on the user's Workspace role and the role of the project owning the database.

Database Permission	Project Querier	Project Developer	Project Developer	Project Owner	Workspace DBA	Workspace Owner
Query	✔️			✔️	✔️	✔️
Export		✔️		✔️	✔️	✔️
Take manual backup			✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Enable backup				✔️	✔️	✔️
Edit database label				✔️	✔️	✔️
Transfer database			Not allowed in Enterprise	✔️	✔️	✔️

Sheet permissions

User can save sheets from SQL Editor. A sheet always belongs to a project. Sheet has three visibility levels:

• Private
• Project
• Public

Private Sheet

Permission	Creator	Project Querier	Project Exporter	Project Developer	Project Owner	Workspace DBA	Workspace Owner
Star	✔️
Read	✔️
Write	✔️
Delete	✔️

Project Sheet

Permission	Creator	Project Querier	Project Exporter	Project Developer	Project Owner	Workspace DBA	Workspace Owner
Star	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Read	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Write	✔️				✔️	✔️	✔️
Delete	✔️				✔️	✔️	✔️

Public Sheet

Permission	Creator	Project Querier	Project Exporter	Project Developer	Project Owner	Others
Star	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Read	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Write	✔️				✔️
Delete	✔️				✔️

Issue permissions

Issue Permission	Assignee	Creator	Project Querier	Project Exporter	Project Developer	Project Owner	Workspace DBA	Workspace Owner
Create issue	N/A	N/A	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Re-assign issue	✔️	✔️					✔️	✔️
Change issue status	✔️					Depends*	✔️	✔️
Edit name and description	✔️	✔️					✔️	✔️
Edit SQL Statement		✔️
Subscribe/Unsubscribe	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Add comment	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️

* Project Owner can change issue status when the current active Environment Rollout Policy is set to Require manual rolling out.