Topic Authorizations

This guide shows you how to authorize, deny, revoke, or cancel an application’s access to a topic in a given environment.

Goal

Control which applications can access your topic.

Audience

Topic Owner, a user with Edit permission on the topic (a member of its owning group).

When to use

Use this guide when an application requests access to your topic, or when you need to remove access it already has.

Contents

The sections below cover each task in this guide:

Authorizing Topic Access

You can authorise a topic access request from the dashboard or from the topic detail page.

From the dashboard, follow these steps:

  1. Visit the dashboard page.

  2. Find the application that has requested access to the topic, and verify the environment where the request needs to be approved.

    Approve request

  3. Click the Approve request button. A confirmation popup verifies that the request was approved.

  4. The application’s Access Control List (ACL) is authorised to allow access to your topic.

From the topic’s detail page, follow these steps:

  1. Search for your topic and open the topic detail page.

  2. Scroll to the tab titled Pending requests.

    Approve request

  3. Find the application that has requested access, and verify the environment where the request needs to be approved.

  4. Click the Approve request button. A confirmation popup verifies that the request was approved.

  5. The application ACL is authorised in the Axual Cloud cluster to allow access to your topic.

  6. The application request moves to the History tab, and its colour in the visualisation changes to green.

Denying Topic Access

Denying access follows the same flow as Authorizing Topic Access. Follow those steps up to the approve step, then click the Deny button instead of Approve request, and provide a reason for the requester.

Revoking Topic Access

To revoke a connected application’s access in an environment, use the bin icon next to the application on the topic.

  1. Click the bin icon to open the "Revoke topic access" modal.

    Revoking topic access

  2. Select the environments for which you want to revoke access, provide a reason, and click Save.

    Adding a reason and selecting an environment when revoking access

  3. Once the action completes, close the modal.

Cancelling An Application Access From Your topic

Cancelling a request follows the same flow as Authorizing Topic Access. Follow those steps up to the approve step, then click the Cancel button instead of Approve request.