Sign up and try CircleCI
To start building on CircleCI, go to the Sign Up page or follow an email invite link from your team, and create an account. After signing up you can create an organization or find your teammates.
CircleCI supports GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab projects. If you use GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket Data Center and are creating a CircleCI organization for your team, you will set the version control system (VCS) integration type, and authenticate with your VCS provider during the signup process. Team members that you invite to your CircleCI org can join without authenticating with your VCS. However, if they are to create new projects, they will authenticate during the project creation process. If you use Bitbucket Cloud, every team member signing up for a new account and joining your org will authenticate with Bitbucket during the signup process. |
Sign up
From the Sign Up page, do one of the following:
Building GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket Data Center projects?
If you want to build mainly GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket Data Center projects, sign up with your email address to create an account.
| If you want to collaborate on an existing org you can create an account and request an invite later. |
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Select Sign Up.
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Enter your email address and create a password.
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Answer a few questions about how you plan to use CircleCI.
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You can now choose one of the following:
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Use the Find Your Team option to connect your account to a shared org
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Building Bitbucket Cloud projects?
If you want to primarily build Bitbucket Cloud projects, sign up with your Bitbucket account. After you connect your Bitbucket account you can go ahead and start setting up projects, following the Create a project in CircleCI page. Your org in CircleCI maps directly to your Bitbucket workspace.
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Select Sign Up With Bitbucket.
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Log in to your Bitbucket Cloud account
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Enter your email address and create a password.
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Choose between creating an organization or joining your teammates in an existing org:
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If you are creating a new CircleCI org for your team, follow the Create an org steps below.
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If you want to join an existing shared organization, follow the steps on the Join your teammates page.
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Create an org
This section covers creating a new CircleCI organization. Once your organization is created, you can start building right away or invite your teammates to join.
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From your user homepage select Get Started in the "Start a new organization" card.
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Give your organization a name and select Let’s Go.
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Create a project to get started. Select Get Started in the "Create a project" card, and refer to the Create a project page for further steps.
If you choose not to connect your code at this time, you can still explore some example projects within the CircleCI app.
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You can take a look at a popular open source project building on CircleCI, React by Facebook.
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Or some of our own sample projects: a sample JavaScript app, and a sample Python app.
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Invite your team by navigating to . For more information on inviting people to your org, see the Join your teammates page.
Sign up with an invite
If you are signing up using an invite from your team, you will be joining an existing CircleCI organization.
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To create an account for free with CircleCI, follow the link in your invite email and enter your email address and create a password.
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On the next screen, respond to prompts that best describe your role and your engineering organization.
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Finally, you will be taken to your organization’s pipelines dashboard in the CircleCI web app. From here, you can follow projects or trigger pipelines in projects to which you have access in your organization, or create new projects.
| If you are setting up a project for the first time, you may need to authenticate with your VCS provider. Once you have completed a one-time authentication, you will be able to set up subsequent projects in CircleCI more quickly. Refer to the Creating a Project guide for more information. |
Guides for integrating GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab projects are available as follows:
Terms
By signing up, you are agreeing to our SaaS Agreement and Privacy Policy. We ask for read/write access to make your experience seamless on CircleCI. If you are a GitHub user and aren’t ready to share access to your private projects, you can choose public repositories instead. Protected by reCAPTCHA, Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Next steps
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Read the Join your teammates page for steps on adding team members to your CircleCI org.
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Go to the Hello World page to learn the basics of setting up a CircleCI configuration file.
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Read the Concepts page for an overview of foundational CircleCI concepts such as pipelines, executors.
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Refer to the full CircleCI configuration reference for creating a
.circleci/config.ymlfile, which determines your execution environment and automates your tests.