# First Steps

> From sign-up to your first published package: the steps in order, with the page for each.

This is the shortest path from nothing to a package in CloudRepo. Each step has its own page; this page is the map.

## The path

1. **[Sign Up and Sign In](/docs/get-started/sign-up.html).** Create your organization, open the verification link in your email, and sign in to the admin portal.
2. **[Create Your First Repository](/docs/get-started/first-repository.html).** Choose Maven, Python, npm or Docker.
3. **[Create a repository token](/docs/authenticate/repository-tokens.html).** It is the credential your build tool sends. Copy it when the portal shows it: it is shown once.
4. **Connect your tool and publish.** Pick your format: [Maven or Gradle](/docs/formats/maven.html), [Python (pip and twine)](/docs/formats/python.html), [npm](/docs/formats/npm.html) or [Docker](/docs/formats/docker.html). Each has a ready-to-paste setup and a command that checks it.
5. **Install what you published,** from a second project or from CI, with the same token.

Teammates and CI systems can have their own credentials: see [Create Your First User](/docs/get-started/add-users.html) and the CI guides under [Continuous Integration and Deployment](/docs/integrations/cicd/overview.html).

## The guided setup in the portal

The first time you sign in as the owner, the portal opens **Get Started with CloudRepo**, four steps, numbered 1 to 4 above the form: **Create Repository**, **Create Credentials**, **Configure Client** and **Test Setup**. It covers the same ground as steps 2 to 4 above. You can follow it or click **Skip and go to Dashboard** at any time, and, as the owner, you can return to it later at `admin.cloudrepo.io/onboarding`.

Its second step creates a *repository user*: an account with its own email address and password, for a person or a system. Your build tool still sends a repository token, not that password; the third step reminds you to create one under **Repository Tokens**.

![Get Started with CloudRepo at step 1, Create Repository, with steps 2 to 4 named Create Credentials, Configure Client and Test Setup.](/docs/_astro/shots/sign-up/3-onboarding.3a45d6ce9b36c330.png)

## Check that it works

The format page’s command is the check: a publish that succeeds proves the credential, the URL and the repository agree. If it fails, look the code up in [Error codes](/docs/reference/error-codes.html), which lists the codes documented so far and the fix for each.

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The page: https://www.cloudrepo.io/docs/get-started/first-steps.html