Why are cluster administrator permissions required to install via Kubernetes?

[tpanza]

Hello,

I am trying to install MLRun onto a shared corporate Kubernetes cluster. The prereqs state the following:

Access to a Kubernetes cluster. You must have administrator permissions in order to install MLRun on your cluster.

Where can I learn more about why exactly admin permissions are required?

Might there be some alternative to this? For example, is there a way to separate the installation process into steps requiring admin and steps that do not, and then I could submit a request to the cluster administrators to run those admin-requiring steps for me?

Since the cluster I am trying to use is shared across a large corporate enterprise, the owners/admins are leery about installing products requiring admin permissions.

[liranbg]

Hi @tpanza - to install resources that are cluster-wide such as CRDs it is required to have admin permissions. Nuclio helm chart is publicly so you can revisit and see what is being installed. https://github.com/v3io/helm-charts/tree/development/stable/mlrun

[tpanza]

Thanks for the info @liranbg . Is there a way to split the installation process into two parts? Ex: First for an admin user to create the cluster-wide resources such as CRDs, then for a regular user to do the rest? What would that look like?