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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2016
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Georgios Chrysanthakopoulos, Seattle, WA (US);
Pieter Noordhuis, Menlo Park, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of controlling access to a target resource of a plurality of resources managed by a control plane executing on a computing system includes: receiving, at the control plane, a request for the target resource by a client, the request including a user indicator; identifying a user group in which the user indicator is a member; identifying a role that includes an access policy, applicable to the user group, for accessing a group of the plurality of resources, the group of resources defined by a query executable against an index of states of the plurality of resources; obtaining a state of the target resource in response to the request; and applying the access policy of the role to the request for the target resource based on a determination of whether the state of the target resource satisfies a query filter corresponding to the query of the role.