Use cases

When hierarchical authorization is enabled, child environments inherit roles assigned to a parent environment.

Cloudera Base on premises (root environment):

Supported child environments inherit roles assigned at the parent (root) environment level, including:

  • Cloudera Data Warehouse Database Catalogs
  • Cloudera Data Warehouse Virtual Warehouses
  • Cloudera Data Engineering services
  • Cloudera Data Engineering Virtual Clusters

Services:

  • Cloudera Data Warehouse Database Catalog : The Cloudera Data Warehouse Virtual Warehouses associated with a Database Catalog inherit the roles assigned to that catalog.
  • Cloudera Data Engineering service: The Cloudera Data Engineering Virtual Clusters associated with a Cloudera Data Engineering Service inherit the roles assigned to that service.

Assign the policy at the level where access begins:

  • Cloudera Base on premises: Use this level to grant access across Cloudera Data Warehouse and Cloudera Data Engineering child environments.
  • Database Catalog: Use this level to grant access only to its associated Cloudera Data Warehouse Virtual Warehouses.
  • Cloudera Data Engineering service: Use this level to grant access only to its associated Cloudera Data Engineering Virtual Clusters.