Preconfigured CI relationships in tag-based discovery

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title: Preconfigured CI relationships in tag-based discovery
description: Several preconfigured CI relationships participate in tag-based discovery, by default. The Traversal Rules for Application Services \[svc\_traversal\_rules\] table stores these relationships.
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# Preconfigured CI relationships in tag-based discovery

Several preconfigured CI relationships participate in tag-based discovery, by default. The Traversal Rules for Application Services \[svc\_traversal\_rules\] table stores these relationships.

**Important:** You cannot delete or modify preconfigured CI relationships used for tag-based discovery from the Traversal Rules for Application Services \[svc\_traversal\_rules\] table.

|CI|Relationship|CI|
|---|------------|---|
|Virtual Machine Instance \[cmdb\_ci\_vm\_instance\]|Virtualizes:: Virtualized by|Hardware \[cmdb\_ci\_hardware\]|
|Hardware \[cmdb\_ci\_hardware\]|Runs::Runs on|Application \[cmdb\_ci\_appl\]|
|Kubernetes Pod \[cmdb\_ci\_kubernetes\_pod\]|Contains::Contained by|Operating-system-level Virtualization Container \[cmdb\_ci\_oslv\_container\]|

|CI|Relationship|CI|
|---|------------|---|
|Configuration Item \[cmdb\_ci\]|Hosted on::Hosts|Logical Datacenter \[cmdb\_ci\_logical\_datacenter\]|
|Logical Datacenter \[cmdb\_ci\_logical\_datacenter\]|Hosted on::Hosts|Cloud Service Account \[cmdb\_ci\_cloud\_service\_account\]|
|Kubernetes Service \[cmdb\_ci\_kubernetes\_service\]|Contained By::Contains|Kubernetes Cluster \[cmdb\_ci\_kubernetes\_cluster\]|
|OpenShift Project \[cmdb\_ci\_openshift\_project\]|Contained by::Contains|Kubernetes Cluster \[cmdb\_ci\_kubernetes\_cluster\]|
|Kubernetes Pod \[cmdb\_ci\_kubernetes\_pod\]|Contained by::Contains|Kubernetes Cluster \[cmdb\_ci\_kubernetes\_cluster\]|
|Kubernetes Pod \[cmdb\_ci\_kubernetes\_pod\]|Cluster::Cluster of|Kubernetes Service \[cmdb\_ci\_kubernetes\_service\]|
|Kubernetes Namespace \[cmdb\_ci\_kubernetes\_namespace\]​|Contains::Contained By|OpenShift Deployed Config \[cmdb\_ci\_openshift\_dep\_conf​\]|
|Kubernetes Namespace \[cmdb\_ci\_kubernetes\_namespace\]​|Contains::Contained By|OpenShift Build Config \[cmdb\_ci\_openshift\_build\_conf\]|
|Kubernetes Namespace \[cmdb\_ci\_kubernetes\_namespace\]​|Contains::Contained By|OpenShift Route \[cmdb\_ci\_openshift\_route\]|
|Kubernetes Namespace \[cmdb\_ci\_kubernetes\_namespace\]​|Contains::Contained By|OpenShift Image Stream \[cmdb\_ci\_openshift\_images\_stream\]|

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