# Get started

Probo is an open-source governance, risk, and compliance platform for engineering, security, and compliance teams. Use these docs to understand the product model, operate a compliance program, automate records, and choose a deployment.

## Choose your path

Start with the path that matches your role.

- [Compliance lead](/docs/product/getting-started) — Learn the product model, import a framework, and operate the compliance program
- [Cloud customer](/docs/deployment/cloud) — Review Probo Cloud regions, shared responsibility, and first-organization setup
- [Self-host operator](/docs/deployment/self-hosting) — Deploy with Docker Compose or Kubernetes, then configure the platform
- [Integrator](/docs/developers) — Automate Probo through GraphQL, the CLI, MCP, n8n, and webhooks

## Explore Probo

- [Product overview](/docs/product/getting-started/product-overview) — Understand Probo's scope, users, interfaces, and deployment options
- [Product](/docs/product) — Explore compliance, risk, privacy, audit, trust, identity, consent, and device capabilities
- [Developers](/docs/developers) — Automate Probo through GraphQL, the CLI, MCP, n8n, and webhooks
- [Deployment](/docs/deployment) — Compare Probo Cloud and self-hosting, then review configuration and operations

## Core product areas

Probo connects the records used throughout a compliance program instead of treating them as isolated checklists.

- [Compliance program](/docs/product/compliance-program) — Frameworks, controls, measures, tasks, evidence, and applicability
- [Risk and third parties](/docs/product/risk-management) — Risk registers, threat-based assessments, vendors, services, and subprocessors
- [Privacy and trust](/docs/product/privacy-management) — Processing activities, impact assessments, documents, and the Compliance Portal
- [Identity and access](/docs/product/identity-and-access) — Members, roles, SSO, SCIM, and access-review campaigns

## Learn the model

- [Core concepts](/docs/product/getting-started/core-concepts) — See how the main records relate across a compliance program
- [Glossary](/docs/product/getting-started/glossary) — Look up product, security, privacy, and compliance terminology
- [Choose a deployment](/docs/product/getting-started/choose-deployment) — Compare managed Cloud, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes

## More resources

- [GitHub repository](https://github.com/getprobo/probo) — Browse the source, contribute to Probo, or follow development
- [Report an issue](https://github.com/getprobo/probo/issues) — Report a bug or request a feature
- [Community](https://discord.gg/8qfdJYfvpY) — Get help and talk with the Probo community on Discord