# Get started with the TestifySec Platform

Source: https://www.testifysec.com/docs/platform

Understand the platform, connect your first workflow, and choose a deployment.

![](https://www.testifysec.com/media/brand-assets/products/platform/shield-blue.svg)Getting started

Understand the shared system, connect your first workflow, and manage its gates and evidence.

## Before you start

Choose hosted or private deployment and identify the repositories and checks you want to connect. For private deployment, review the appliance requirements before installing.

## Your first workflow

1. [**Understand the platform**See how products, repositories, gates, and evidence fit together.](https://www.testifysec.com/docs/platform/overview)
2. [**Choose your first workflow**Start with code trust, technical-control evidence, or private deployment.](https://www.testifysec.com/docs/start/workflows)
3. [**Connect evidence and a gate**Follow the system architecture into CI/lock capture and Pushgate setup.](https://www.testifysec.com/docs/concepts/architecture)

## Check your result

You can identify the repository, its assigned requirements, and the evidence behind its decision in your chosen workflow.

## Configure your system

- [Products, repositories, and policies](https://www.testifysec.com/docs/platform/data-model)
  
  Understand the platform data model.
- [Connect CI/lock](https://www.testifysec.com/docs/cilock/getting-started/connect-to-the-platform)
  
  Configure evidence collection for your platform.
- [Connect Pushgate](https://www.testifysec.com/docs/pushgate/setup)
  
  Set up the first repository checkpoint.

## Deploy and understand trust

- [Appliance deployment](https://www.testifysec.com/docs/platform/appliance)
  
  Formats, sizing, network paths, and responsibilities.
- [Trust architecture and PKI](https://www.testifysec.com/docs/pushgate/trust-architecture)
  
  Certificates, timestamps, discovery, and trust roots.
- [System trust model](https://www.testifysec.com/docs/concepts/trust-model)
  
  Understand evidence producers and verification boundaries.

## Continue with another product

CI/lock captures the work. Pushgate checks the push. The platform manages gates and evidence.

[![](https://www.testifysec.com/media/brand-assets/products/cilock/cilock-mark-color.svg)CI/lock docs](https://www.testifysec.com/docs/cilock)[![](https://www.testifysec.com/media/brand-assets/products/pushgate/pushgate-mark-color.svg)Pushgate docs](https://www.testifysec.com/docs/pushgate)