Get started with IDP

Hi there! This guide assumes that you are new to the Harness Internal Developer Portal (IDP) module and want to get started with it. The getting started guide is designed to be a Proof of Concept (POC) or Proof of Value (POV) which usually takes a sprint to complete by a platform engineer.

By completing this guide, you will get an understanding of how IDP works and its different features, and you can start to think about how you can adopt an IDP in your organization. Here's the list of steps for getting started with IDP.

Items	Milestone	Step	Documentation
1.1	Setup	Set up IDP with a Git connector needed to carry out the rest of onboarding	Docs
1.2		(Optional) Import services from Harness CD	Docs
2.1	Explore Software Catalog	Create User Groups for the teams with team members in it. Skip if you already have a Harness User Group representing a team.	Docs
2.2		Register/Update Services with Owner defined	Register a component docs Video Video (Setting an Owner) Sample Catalog YAML
2.3		Register an API with existing OpenAPI definition	Docs
2.4		Create a System entity and update Services and APIs to be a part of the system	Docs
2.5		Create a Domain and update the System to be part of the Domain	Docs
2.6		Add Service to Service and Service to API dependencies	Service to Service (dependsOn) Service to API (providesApis)
2.7		Enable markdown docs for a Service	Docs
3	Enable a Plugin	Go to IDP Admin -> Plugins and follow the docs of the chosen plugin to enable and configure it.	Docs to enable a plugin List of available plugins
4	Create a Scorecard to measure service maturity	Use the existing available checks to create a new Service Maturity Scorecard	Overview video Create scorecard docs How to track migrations (docs)
5	Create Self Service Workflow	Create a new service Onboarding pipeline which creates a new repo with cookiecutter hello world code and registers the new component back in the Software Catalog	Tutorial Docs

Let us start with learning what IDP does, head over to Harness IDP Overview.