[keycloak-user] common roles within multiple clients

[Tim Dudgeon]

I have a keycloak realm that contains a number of clients (app1, app2, 
app3 ...).
Those clients share a set of common roles (user, editor, manager ...).
Is there a way I can directly assign those roles to the keycloak user so 
that they apply across all clients?
The only approach I can find is to set up each of those roles for every 
client (e.g. for 5 clients set up 5 sets of identical roles) and then 
for each client apply the relevant roles to each of the users (e.g. 
repeat the same process for every user/client combination).
Is there a better way?

Thanks
Tim