> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.lerian.studio/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Providers overview

> Manage external service integrations that workflows can connect to, with reusable connection details and credentials in one place.

Providers are external service integrations that your workflows can connect to. Each provider configuration stores the connection details and credentials needed to interact with an external system. In this section, you'll learn how to manage providers via the [Lerian Console](/en/platform/lerian-console/about-lerian-console).

## What is a Provider?

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A Provider represents a configured connection between Flowker and an external service. Workflows use provider nodes to interact with these services, and the provider configuration supplies the necessary connection parameters — so you don't need to hardcode credentials or endpoints in each workflow.

## Accessing the Providers page

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To open the **Providers** page, click **Providers** from the left-side menu on the **Flowker** page.

The page displays all configured providers for the organization in a data table, with the following columns:

* **Name** — the provider configuration name.
* **Provider** — the type of external service (from the provider catalog).
* **Status** — the connection status: `Active` or `Inactive`.
* **Last Modified** — the date the configuration was last updated.
* **Actions** — action menu.

You can filter providers by name or status using the filter fields above the table.

## Provider Catalog

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Flowker includes a catalog of available provider types. When creating a new provider configuration, you select from the catalog which type of external service you want to connect to. The catalog provides the configuration schema and required fields for each provider type.

## Available actions menu

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For each provider, the following actions are available in the action menu (<Icon icon="ellipsis-vertical" />):

* **Edit** — opens the provider configuration for editing.
* **Test** — tests the connection to verify that credentials and settings are correct.
* **Delete** — permanently removes the provider configuration.

## Related pages

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  <Card title="Test a provider" icon="plug" horizontal href="/en/platform/lerian-console/flowker-console/testing-a-provider" />

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