OpenTelemetry Operator doesn't have permissions to create RBAC roles for k8s receivers such as kubeletstats

[johnmckenna]

Component(s)

No response

What happened?

Description

The OTel Operator cannot create an RBAC cluster role for kubeletstats for example

Steps to Reproduce

enable kubeletstats as a receiver:

receivers:
kubeletstats:
auth_type: serviceAccount

Expected Result

Cluster role gets created

Actual Result

Kubernetes Version

1.29.6

Operator version

0.120.0

Collector version

0.122.1

Environment information

Environment

OS: (e.g., "Ubuntu 20.04")
Compiler(if manually compiled): (e.g., "go 14.2")

Log output

Additional context

No response

[iblancasa]

This is not a bug. It is made on purpose for security reasons. You can provide the Service Account that is used to run the operator with permission to create the RBAC resources .

[iblancasa]

We should maybe improve the documentation.