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+# Cluster Role Aggregation
+In order to support easy RBAC integration for CustomResources and Extension
+APIServers, we need to have a way for API extenders to add permissions to the
+"normal" roles for admin, edit, and view.
+
+These roles express an intent for the namespaced power of administrators of the
+namespace (manage ownership), editors of the namespace (manage content like
+pods), and viewers of the namespace (see what is present).  As new APIs are
+made available, these roles should reflect that intent to prevent migration
+concerns every time a new API is added.
+
+To do this, we will allow one ClusterRole to be built out of a selected set of
+ClusterRoles.
+
+## API Changes
+```yaml
+aggregationRule:
+  selectors:
+  - matchLabels:
+      rbac.authorization.k8s.io/aggregate-to-admin: true
+```
+
+```go
+// ClusterRole is a cluster level, logical grouping of PolicyRules that can be referenced as a unit by a RoleBinding or ClusterRoleBinding.
+type ClusterRole struct {
+	metav1.TypeMeta
+	// Standard object's metadata.
+	metav1.ObjectMeta
+
+	// Rules holds all the PolicyRules for this ClusterRole
+	Rules []PolicyRule
+
+	// AggregationRule is an optional field that describes how to build the Rules for this ClusterRole.
+	// If AggregationRule is set, then the Rules are controller managed and direct changes to Rules will be
+	// stomped by the controller.
+	AggregationRule *AggregationRule
+}
+
+// AggregationRule describes how to locate ClusterRoles to aggregate into the ClusterRole
+type AggregationRule struct {
+	// Selector holds a list of selectors which will be used to find ClusterRoles and create the rules.
+	// If any of the selectors match, then the ClusterRole's permissions will be added
+	Selectors []metav1.LabelSelector
+}
+```
+
+The `aggregationRule` stanza contains a list of LabelSelectors which are used
+to select the set of ClusterRoles which should be combined.  When
+`aggregationRule` is set, the list of `rules` becomes controller managed and is
+subject to overwriting at any point.
+
+`aggregationRule` needs to be protected from escalation.  The simplest way to
+do this is to restrict it to users with verb=`*`, apiGroups=`*`, resources=`*`.  We
+could later loosen it by using a covers check against all aggregated rules
+without changing backward compatibility.
+
+## Controller
+There is a controller which watches for changes to ClusterRoles and then
+updates all aggregated ClusterRoles if their list of Rules has changed.  Since
+there are relatively few ClusterRoles, it checks them all and most
+short-circuit.
+
+## The Payoff
+If you want to create a CustomResource for your operator and you want namespace
+admin's to be able to create one, instead of trying to:
+ 1. Create a new ClusterRole
+ 2. Update every namespace with a matching RoleBinding
+ 3. Teach everyone to add the RoleBinding to all their admin users
+ 4. When you remove it, clean up dangling RoleBindings
+ 
+ Or
+ 
+ 1. Make a non-declarative patch against the admin ClusterRole
+ 2. When you remove it, try to safely create a new non-declarative patch to
+ remove it.
+ 
+You can simply create a new ClusterRole like
+```yaml
+apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: ClusterRole
+metadata:
+  name: etcd-operator-admin
+  label:
+    rbac.authorization.k8s.io/aggregate-to-admin: true
+rules:
+- apiGroups:
+  - etcd.database.coreos.com
+  resources:
+  - etcdclusters
+  verbs:
+  - "*"
+```
+alongside your CustomResourceDefinition.  The admin role is updated correctly and 
+removal is a `kubectl delete -f` away.
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