Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) - CI/CD Glossary Definition
Role-based access control grants permissions to roles rather than directly to users, then assigns users or services to roles, so access is managed by membership.
Why it scales
Defining a small set of roles and mapping identities to them is easier to reason about and audit than per-user permission lists.
In CI/CD
A deploy pipeline is assigned a deployer role scoped to one environment, keeping its authority separate from build-only jobs.
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