---
title: "Profile"
description: "Reference for the Profile resource in Calico Open Source that groups labels and rules applied to endpoints."
product: "Calico Open Source"
version: "3.32 (latest)"
section: "Reference"
canonical_url: "https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/reference/resources/profile"
---

# Profile

Profiles provide a way to group multiple endpoints so that they inherit a shared set of labels. For historic reasons, Profiles can also include policy rules, but that feature is deprecated in favor of the much more flexible [NetworkPolicy](https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/reference/resources/networkpolicy.md) and [GlobalNetworkPolicy](https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/reference/resources/globalnetworkpolicy.md) resources.

Each Calico endpoint or host endpoint can be assigned to zero or more profiles.

## Sample YAML

The following sample profile applies the label `stage: development` to any endpoint that includes `dev-apps` in its list of profiles.

```yaml
apiVersion: projectcalico.org/v3
kind: Profile
metadata:
  name: dev-apps
spec:
  labelsToApply:
    stage: development
```

## Definition

### Metadata

| Field  | Description                        | Accepted Values                                     | Schema                             | Default |
| ------ | ---------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------- | ------- |
| name   | The name of the profile. Required. | Alphanumeric string with optional `.`, `_`, or `-`. | string                             |         |
| labels | A set of labels for this profile.  |                                                     | map of string key to string values |         |

### Spec

| Field                | Description                                                                                                    | Accepted Values | Schema                                                                                      | Default |
| -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- |
| ingress (deprecated) | The ingress rules belonging to this profile.                                                                   |                 | List of [Rule](https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/reference/resources/networkpolicy.md#rule) |         |
| egress (deprecated)  | The egress rules belonging to this profile.                                                                    |                 | List of [Rule](https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/reference/resources/networkpolicy.md#rule) |         |
| labelsToApply        | An optional set of labels to apply to each endpoint in this profile (in addition to the endpoint's own labels) |                 | map                                                                                         |         |

For `Rule` details please see the [NetworkPolicy](https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/reference/resources/networkpolicy.md) or [GlobalNetworkPolicy](https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/reference/resources/globalnetworkpolicy.md) resource.