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sidebar_title: Project
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  How to configure Boundary projects
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# Project

A project is a child scope of an organization and is owned by an Organization. A Project inherits from Scope ("is-a" Scope) allowing it to own zero to many Groups, Roles, Policies, Targets, Host Catalogs or Credential Stores. A Project also inherits from Principal ("is-a" Principal) allowing it to be associated with zero or more Roles. A Project has no additional relationships beyond those defined in Scope and Principal. A Project is deleted when the Organization it belongs to is deleted. When a Project is deleted, all resources owned by it are also deleted. The lifecycle of a Project is not tied to any resource it contains.

```shell-session
+-----------------------------------+
|           Organization            |
+-----------------------------------+
| Project 1 | Project 2 | Project 3 |
+-----------------------------------+
```

# Attributes

### ID

A project ID is the character `p_` followed by ten digits.

Example: `p_0123456789`

### Name

A project name is the friendly name set by the user of a project.

### Description

A project description is the friendly description set by the user.

# Referenced By

- [Organization]()