# Core Concepts

Source: https://docs.ops0.com/docs/introduction/core-concepts

The key building blocks you'll work with in ops0.

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## Organization

Your top-level container. Everything in ops0 belongs to an organization.

Users & Teams

Invite members, create teams, assign roles

Settings

SSO, audit logs, preferences, and infrastructure management

Integrations

AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, GitHub, GitLab, Slack

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## Projects

Where you write and deploy infrastructure code.

[IaC Projects Provision cloud resources with Terraform, OpenTofu, or Oxid. Pulumi and CloudFormation support is upcoming. Creates: VPCs, EC2, RDS, S3, EKS clusters...](https://docs.ops0.com/docs/iac/overview)
[Configuration Projects Configure servers with Ansible or deploy Kubernetes manifests. Manages: packages, services, users, apps...](https://docs.ops0.com/docs/configurations/overview)

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## Deployments

Every time you apply changes, ops0 creates a deployment.

Plan

Policy Check

Approval

Apply

Done

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## Kubernetes Clusters

Connect clusters to monitor pods, detect incidents, and troubleshoot with AI.

ops0 Agent

Lightweight agent that runs in your cluster

Incidents

Auto-detected issues like CrashLoopBackOff, OOM

Resource Graph

Visual map of pods, services, deployments

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## Workflows

Automate multi-step operations with visual pipelines.

Example: GitOps deployment pipeline

PR Merged

Run Plan

Wait for Approval

Apply

Notify Slack

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## Policies

Rules that validate infrastructure before deployment.

Pass

Deployment proceeds

Fail

Deployment blocked until fixed

**Common policies:** S3 encryption required, no public IPs on databases, required tags on all resources

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## Discovery

Find resources created manually in the cloud console ("ClickOps") and import them into Terraform.

Scan AWS

Select Resources

Create Terraform

Import to Project

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## Next Steps

[Quick Start Create your first project](https://docs.ops0.com/docs/getting-started)
[Architecture How ops0 works under the hood](https://docs.ops0.com/docs/introduction/architecture)