How to enable users who are not an organization owner to publish an Orb

Permissions for Publishing an orb

By default, CircleCI requires that a user be an organization owner to publish an orb. You can view the  Orbs CLI permissions matrix for more details. 

Enabling non-organization owners to publish an orb

Non-organization owners can publish as orb, both public and private, via a context associated with an organization owner's personal API token.

This context can be restricted to a certain security group if need be.

The organization owner will need to follow these steps:

• Generate a personal API token:
  • https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/managing-api-tokens/#creating-a-personal-api-token
• Store the token in a context to be used as an environment variable:
  • https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/env-vars/#setting-an-environment-variable-in-a-context
• The environment variable in the context will need to be called CIRCLE_TOKEN
• Using the Orb Development Kit, assign the `publishing-context` to the newly-created context:
  • https://github.com/CircleCI-Public/Orb-Project-Template/blob/master/.circleci/config.yml#L54

You may also use the CLI to publish orbs by passing in the token. The publish-token-variable pulls in the environment variable from the context called CIRCLE_TOKEN.