+1 on the spec change

On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM Michael Collado <collado.m...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey folks
>
> Some of you already know that I posted an initial PR to get federated
> principals/roles added. One thing that came out of the feedback was a spec
> change to make it clear when federated identities can be used in the APIs.
> Notably, federated principals cannot be created or updated, but can be
> returned in get/list calls, whereas federated roles *can* be created by the
> API. The latter is useful/necessary in order to be able to assign
> privileges to those roles without relying on the JIT creation on login.
>
> Please check out the spec change here and let me know what you think -
>
> https://github.com/apache/polaris/pull/1353/files#diff-52444bc79608edfae86ed0b46d171f7ef63c20090860d877e4e135168311a986
>
> Mike
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 5:15 PM Dmitri Bourlatchkov
> <dmitri.bourlatch...@dremio.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > I left some comments in the doc, but overall it looks good to me :)
> >
> > I still think there are some hidden dependencies on Persistence. For
> > example, whether and how we can have composite keys for persisted
> federated
> > entities... but I guess we can work that out later.
> >
> > Also, I think it is important for the Authorizer API to avoid assuming
> that
> > all principals are persisted. Specific authorizer implementations
> > (including the default one) can certainly expect persisted principals,
> but
> > the API should require that for the sake of flexibility of possible
> AuthN/Z
> > extensions. WDYT?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dmitri.
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 7:43 PM Michael Collado <collado.m...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hey folks
> > >
> > > As discussed during the community sync, I've put together some thoughts
> > on
> > > how we'd add support for federated identities in Polaris. I copied over
> > > some of what I had in the issue at
> > > https://github.com/apache/polaris/issues/441 and put it into the doc
> > here:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/15_3ZiRB6Lhzw0nxij341QUdxEIyFGTrI9_18bFIyJVo/edit?tab=t.0
> > > .
> > >
> > > Please take a look when you get some time and let me know what you
> think.
> > > Given that our next community sync is scheduled for the Thanksgiving
> > > holiday in the US, it might be useful to schedule a meeting
> specifically
> > > for this. I can schedule that sync if needed.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> >
>

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