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title: Resources
description: Everything a project runs is a resource with a name, a spec and a status.
order: 2
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A resource is one thing ops runs or holds for your project. Each has a type, a name, a
spec (what you asked for) and a status (what ops sees). Ops keeps them in step: it applies
the spec, watches the result, and shows the state as a dot and one line.

| type | what it is | lives in |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Service](../resources/services.md) | a container built from your repository | an environment |
| [Database](../resources/databases.md) | Postgres, MariaDB, libSQL or SQLite | an environment |
| [Domain](../resources/domains.md) | a hostname with DNS and a certificate | an environment |
| [Secret group](../resources/secrets.md) | variables handed to services at start | an environment |
| [Bucket](../resources/buckets.md) | object storage, with its keys in a secret group | the project |
| [Job](../resources/jobs.md) | a container run on a schedule | an environment |
| Network | the environment's private network, made with it | an environment |
| Packages | the package names the project may publish, see [Packages](../publish/packages.md) | the project |

Add one with **Add resource** on the project's overview, or on the type's own page.
`ops resources` lists every resource of an environment with its state.

## Where a spec comes from

A service, a domain and a step can be declared in [the project file](project-file.md).
What the file sets is read only in the console for that environment, with a link to the
file; change it with a commit. What the file leaves out stays yours to set in the console.
Databases, secret groups, buckets and jobs are made in the console or through the API.

## Removing one

Deleting a resource asks for its name typed back. Ops refuses a delete that would leave
something running unmanaged, or lose data, and says why: a bucket that still holds objects,
or a repository a service still builds from.

A resource the project file stops declaring keeps running and is listed as no longer
declared, so you delete it on purpose.

## History

Every change to a resource is kept with who made it. The resource's page lists them, and
the audit log holds every action taken in the project.