Error from server (Forbidden): error when creating .. : clusterroles.rbac.authorization.k8s.io …: attempt to grant extra privileges:

Question

Failed to create clusterroles. <> already assigned as the roles of "container engine admin" & "container engine cluster admin"

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

Based on https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/docs/role-based-access-control#setting_up_role-based_access_control

Because of the way Container Engine checks permissions when you create a Role or ClusterRole, you must first create a RoleBinding that grants you all of the permissions included in the role you want to create.

An example workaround is to create a RoleBinding that gives your Google identity a cluster-admin role before attempting to create additional Role or ClusterRolepermissions.

This is a known issue in the Beta release of Role-Based Access Control in Kubernetes and Container Engine version 1.6.

So you need to bind your account to a cluster admin role.

Answer 2

I've got the same problem on Google Kubernetes Engine.

According to the answer of enj and the comment of ccyang2005 please find the following snipet who solve my problem :)

Step 1 : Get your identity

gcloud info | grep Account

Will output you something like Account: [myname@example.org]

Step 2 : grant cluster-admin to your current identity

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

Will output somthing like Clusterrolebinding "myname-cluster-admin-binding" created

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After that, you'll be able to create CusterRoles