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Learn to run the engineering lifecycle with ELOS: from a new workspace to onboarding, access, handovers and knowledge that stays. Step-by-step guides with real screenshots of the product.

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An ordered route through the docs for the job you do.

Administrators

Onboard your organization

From sign-up to your first joiner: connect your tools, settle what they disagree on, approve each team's day-one plan, and bring a new engineer in.

8 articles · about 36 minutes

  1. Create your workspace
  2. Set up your organization
  3. Connect your tools
  4. Bring your Backstage catalog
  5. Review what your tools disagree on
  6. Onboarding templates
  7. Register a joiner
  8. Track onboarding and clear blockers

Administrators

Set up ELOS for your organization

From a new workspace to roles, connected tools and the controls your security team will ask about.

9 articles · about 42 minutes

  1. Product overview
  2. Create your workspace
  3. Set up your organization
  4. Connect your tools
  5. Members and access roles
  6. Roles, permissions and read scope
  7. Workspace settings
  8. Retention, export and erasure
  9. The audit log

Administrators

Automate the catalog and onboarding

Fill the service catalog from code, keep it current, and bring in people and metadata in bulk with the API.

6 articles · about 35 minutes

  1. What you can automate
  2. Service accounts and API keys
  3. Use the ELOS API
  4. Catalog as code with catalog-info.yaml
  5. Update the service catalog in bulk
  6. Onboard people in bulk

Engineering managers

Run the lifecycle for your team

Bring joiners to engineering-ready, decide access, and handle moves and departures without losing knowledge.

8 articles · about 34 minutes

  1. Register a joiner
  2. Track onboarding and clear blockers
  3. Engineering readiness
  4. Time to productive
  5. Approve access
  6. Change a role or team
  7. Offboard and hand over
  8. Capture knowledge from KT sessions

Engineers

Your first weeks with ELOS

Work through your knowledge journey, get the access you need, and ask ELOS instead of asking around.

6 articles · about 24 minutes

  1. The knowledge journey
  2. Request access
  3. Ask ELOS
  4. Search sources as yourself
  5. Memory and conversations
  6. Write and publish docs

Security and compliance

Evaluate and govern ELOS

Least-privilege roles, approvals, time-bound access, reviews, the audit trail and how AI stays in bounds.

6 articles · about 25 minutes

  1. Roles, permissions and read scope
  2. Approve access
  3. Time-bound privileged elevation
  4. Access reviews
  5. The audit log
  6. AI and your data

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Organized the way ELOS is: setup and administration, then the lifecycle.