This section shows a list of services the current object requests in order to function.

Services are external resources or APIs that an artifact might need to exist in the environment that are not direct dependencies. It is a little confusing, but these are generally network-accessed resources such as an internet connection or an information service accessed by a network port such as a database.

For instance, artifacts typically do not have a network. To add network access, you would have to add that as a required service.

Other 'services' might be hardware, such as particular GPUs or other sub-devices that make sense for the environment of the artifact. This might limit the available deployment targets, however, so some care should be taken to only add required services when they are truly needed.

You can mark a service as optional if you want to still be able to run even in the absence of the service. You can mark a service as if-needed to hint that the service should only be added if a dependency requires it. Finally, to only run this artifact in the presence of the service, you can mark it as required.