# Getting started

> How Federated Core is set up, how you sign in, and where to change settings.

- Web page: https://documentation.federated.computer/getting-started/

Federated Core is the collection of open-source applications that Federated Computer installs, runs, and maintains for you. Each customer gets their own virtual machine, and each application on it is installed separately for that customer. You use the applications in a web browser (and, for some, in desktop and mobile apps); Federated Computer handles servers, updates, backups, and security patches.

Read these guides in order if you are new. They apply to every application in this documentation.

## Pages in this section

- [How Federated Core works](https://documentation.federated.computer/getting-started/how-federated-core-works/index.md): Your own server, your own domain, and open-source applications maintained for you.
- [Accounts and signing in](https://documentation.federated.computer/getting-started/accounts-and-sign-in/index.md): One account for your organization's apps, protected by Authelia.
- [Superpanel](https://documentation.federated.computer/getting-started/superpanel/index.md): The web control panel for your Federated Core server: people, access, and application settings.
- [AI on Federated Core](https://documentation.federated.computer/getting-started/ai-on-federated-core/index.md): What AI you can use with your applications today, what's coming, and what happens to your data.
- [Command-line access](https://documentation.federated.computer/getting-started/command-line-access/index.md): What the You host option adds, and how to get advanced tasks done without it.
- [Getting help](https://documentation.federated.computer/getting-started/getting-help/index.md): Where to go when something isn't working or you're not sure how to do something.