Get started
Pick the path that matches what you want to do.
Try Waldur on your machine
Run a local instance with Docker Compose and look around the UI. → Try Waldur locally
Use a Waldur deployment
You have an account on a Waldur portal run by your organization, HPC centre or cloud provider.
- Interface introduction — how the portal is laid out
- Create an organization and manage projects
- Order and manage resources
- How you reach services once they are provisioned
The user guide covers the rest, by role.
Call the API
Make your first request with curl, the Python SDK or TypeScript. → Make your first API call
Deploy Waldur for production
- Check the hardware requirements.
- Install with Docker Compose on a single server, or with Helm on Kubernetes.
- Configure Waldur: the configuration guide lists every setting, and most deployments start with identity providers.
- Let service providers add offerings.
Danger
Before going to production, complete the go-live checklist.
Contribute to Waldur
Set up a development environment and open your first merge request. → Contribute to Waldur
Learn the concepts
The platform overview explains Waldur's three building blocks — users, organizations and projects — and how everything else, from orders to invoices, attaches to them.