Getting Started

Before getting started with Boundary, it's important to understand a few key concepts. Please consult our Boundary concepts page to familiarize yourself with Boundary's architecture and terminology.

Boundary Architecture

Requirements

The Getting Started section uses HCP Boundary, a HashiCorp hosted and fully-managed version of the Boundary product.

To get started with HCP Boundary, users need:

A HashiCorp Cloud Platform account
Installation of Boundary CLI
A Boundary binary in your $PATH
Optionally, an installation of Boundary Desktop

If you prefer to get started on your local machine, refer to Run and Login in Dev Mode. For more information on Boundary OSS and self-managed installations, refer to Boundary OSS.