Guides
These are the same day-2 usage guides that ship inside every install
package, in docs/guides/. The guides published here are linked below; additional guides are
listed below and open once your instance is running.
Published here
| Guide | What it covers |
|---|---|
| On-prem multi-tenant setup | Environment variables, external URLs, nginx mapping and tenant/client registration. |
| VS Code AI Booster Pack | Sign-in, seat registration and supported coding-tool configuration. |
| Activate an on-prem license | Request a license, apply a signed token, and activate an airgapped installation. |
| Build your private AI infrastructure | Choose and host models, install AIBG, connect tools, and verify privacy. |
| Self-host an LLM | Deploy vLLM on AWS or an existing GPU server. |
| User guide | Setting up providers, models, teams, budgets, and keys from a fresh install; day-to-day use of the console. |
| User management guide | Creating users, roles, SSO approvals, and RBAC permissions. |
| Identity guide | Setting up auth providers and identities for LLM and MCP callers. |
| Guardrails guide | Configuring regex, webhook, and PII-detection guardrails. |
| MCP servers guide | Registering upstream MCP servers and discovering their tools. |
| MCP authorization guide | Granting teams access to specific MCP servers and tools. |
| Pass-through routing | Letting a client supply its own upstream credential. |
| Client identification guide | How Cortega resolves a caller's identity from a request. |
| Build agents with Cortega | Model access, governed tools, analytics, verification, and application examples. |
| Agentic applications guide | Registering an application, then reading per-instance usage and agent verdicts through the API. |
| Endpoint Guard deployment guide | Installing and enrolling the Endpoint Guard / AI Booster native agent. |
Ships with your install, not yet published here
| Guide | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Provider interworking guide | Configuring LLM providers and credential sources. |
| Load balancer guide | Running a load balancer in front of multiple gateways. |
| Gateway migration guide | Importing an existing LiteLLM gateway's configuration into Cortega with the gwmigrate CLI. |
| ClickHouse low-memory guide | Running the telemetry store on a memory-constrained instance. |
For install instructions themselves, see Install.