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title: Structure
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Ufo creates a ufo folder within your project which contains the required files used by ufo to build and deploy docker images to ECS.  The standard directory structure of the ufo folder looks like this:

```sh
ufo
├── output
├── settings.yml
├── task_definitions.rb
└── templates
    └── main.json.erb
```

The table below covers the purpose of each folder and file.

File / Directory  | Description
------------- | -------------
<code>output/</code>  | The folder where the generated task definitions are written to.  The way the task definitions are generated are covered in [ufo tasks build]({% link _docs/tutorial-ufo-tasks-build.md %}).
<code>settings.yml</code>  | Ufo's settings file, where you and adjust the default [settings]({% link _docs/settings.md %}).
<code>task_definitions.rb</code>  | This where you define the task definitions and specify the variables to be used by the ERB templates.
<code>templates/</code>  | The ERB templates with the task definition json code.  The template are covered in more detail in [ufo tasks build]({% link _docs/tutorial-ufo-tasks-build.md %}).
<code>templates/main.json.erb</code>  | This is the main and starter template task definition json file that ufo initially generates.

Now that you know where the ufo configurations are located and what they look like.  Let use ufo!

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