Sign up and try CircleCI
To start building on CircleCI, go to the Sign Up page. Sign up with your email address and connect your GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab account in the process.
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If you are creating a new CircleCI org for your team, follow the Sign up and create an org steps below.
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If you are signing up for a CircleCI account through an invite from someone on your team, follow the steps in the Sign up with an invite section.
VCS integrations
CircleCI supports GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab projects.
If you use GitHub or GitLab, 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, every team member signing up for a new account and joining your org will authenticate with Bitbucket during the signup process.
Sign up and create an org
If you are new to CircleCI, you will create a CircleCI organization. A CircleCI organization may correspond directly to a personal CircleCI account, or more commonly, to a shared account in which a team collaborates and with which multiple team members' personal CircleCI accounts can be associated.
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To create an account for free with CircleCI, enter your email address and password on the Sign Up page.
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On the next screen, respond to prompts that best describe your role and your engineering organization.
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Then, connect your code. Choose the VCS that contains your code repositories: GitHub, GitLab.com (cloud), GitLab Self-Managed, or Bitbucket.
Sign up with an invite
If you are signing up using an invite from a team member, you will be joining a CircleCI organization. The CircleCI organization is a shared account where a team collaborates, and with which multiple team members' personal CircleCI accounts can be associated.
You must follow the link from an invite email in order to join an existing CircleCI organization. If you attempt to sign up directly from the Sign Up page, you will be creating a new organization. If you have not received an invite you can contact your org administrator. |
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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 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 set up new projects.
Note that 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 repos instead. Protected by reCAPTCHA, Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Next steps
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Read the Invite your team 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.
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