Fundamentals
Getting started with Frends? You're in the right place.
Welcome to the Frends Fundamentals learning path, your starting point for mastering the Frends Platform. This learning path is designed to give you a comprehensive introduction to the essential concepts and capabilities of Frends, drawing from the core areas of integration development, operations, and security.
Completing this path will provide you with the solid foundation needed for any role working with Frends and is the first step toward achieving your Frends certification.
Prerequisites
None! Though it is preferred and recommended that you have access to a Frends Tenant with at least editor permissions.
This is the very first, or perhaps the second resource that you should read through when starting with Frends, with the very first being the Getting Started section in Frends Docs.
This learning path aims to give a wider and slightly more in depth look at what Frends is capable of and how to use it. As it aims for teaching all the necessary details for the first Frends certificate called Fundamentals, this learning path will include details from all facets of what Frends is.
Getting Started
Frends' low-code integration editor makes it easy for anyone to understand the logic behind the integrations, while being powerful enough to make it possible to create anything in the capable hands of integration developers.
Having version control and CI/CD capable deployment and environments built in to the platform makes it easy to develop and deploy new features to test and production. Once deployed, the provided logging features show instantly what happened and where.
Are you perhaps interested in creating APIs using Frends? We have full suite of API management features too, built in and always included, just like the other features. Pop in your OpenAPI specification and link a process to each endpoint, and you're ready to get the integration logic flowing through an API. Securely, of course.
Frends Basics
Regardless of your role, you might want to get familiar with Frends Glossary as well as Frends Highlights which will help you understand the platform and terminology used better.
For the very basics of the platform, we recommend also checking out the Welcome tour in your Frends Tenant. You can find it from the Home View of your Frends Platform, under Onboarding, if it didn't launch automatically. You can also check this interactive demo we have built just for you:
Integration Development
In order to get started with integration development on Frends, we recommed reading these guides and articles first. These are the same we have available on Getting Started with Integration Development page at the beginning of our Docs.
Adding Logic to your Processes
Now that you know the very basics of how to create and run Processes and view Process Instances in Frends, we can include additional logic in the Processes.
You can learn more about what is possible to use in Frends Processes from the Shapes reference documentation.
You can also check out the tutorials for the topic by taking the Tutorial 2a: Adding logic into your Process path in your Frends Tenant, under Onboarding section in the Home View.
You should also take a look at Tutorial 3: Subprocesses and Tasks in the same Onboarding section for additional features available for Processes.
Finally, we have some curated guides available for you here in the Docs:
API Development
APIs are a core part of Frends capabilities, allowing you to easily create a specification for an API and connecting Processes to each of the endpoints of your APIs.
In order to secure and monitor your APIs, you should take a look at API Policies and the basic authentication methods available.
With the API set up, you will want to deploy and test them as well, like with the standalone Processes.
To complement these guides, you can take the Tutorial 5: API-First Development within your Frends Tenant to get a hands-on experience with APIs.
Operations & Management
In order to get started with Operations & Management basics on Frends, we recommed reading these guides and articles first. These are the same we have available on Getting Started with Managing Integrations and Getting Started with Supporting Integrations pages at the beginning of our Docs.
Additional Actions for Managing Frends
To build upon viewing the basics of details in Frends, it's recommended to check out the most common management operations within Frends Tenant.
You should also familiarize yourself with the other documentation for common management features in Frends.
Finally, you have the option to take the Tutorial 2b: How to operate & monitor Frends under Onboarding section in your Frends Tenant. This will give you a hand-on experience on navigating the features in Frends. Tutorial 4: Managing my Frends Processes & Environments will also support in learning these topics.
Technology Basics
To understand what Frends is and how it structured, you can read the following articles to get a basic undestanding.
Security Basics
Security is a core principle of Frends, allowing you to focus on using the platform rather than trying to keep up with the latest security threats. Here's a few articles to get you in the know of how Frends is built to be secure and how you can include the security in your integrations.
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