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  The annatomy of a Boundary host catalog
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# Host Catalog

A host catalog is a permission boundary modeled as a container. A Host Catalog can contain Scopes forming a tree. A Scope can own zero to many Groups, Roles, Targets, and Host Catalogs. Scope is abstract. Organization and Project are concrete Scopes. All resources owned by a Scope are deleted when the Scope is deleted.

## Attributes