# Getting Started with Machines – DigitalOcean Documentation

> Quickstarts and intermediate tutorials to get started.
- [Machines Quickstart](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/machines/getting-started/quickstart/index.html.md): Just the essentials to go from zero to working in a few minutes.
- [Use the ML-in-a-Box Template For Machine Learning Applications](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/machines/getting-started/run-ml-in-a-box/index.html.md): Use the ML-in-a-Box template, a generic data science stack for machine learning that includes stable and up-to-date installations of widely used machine learning and mathematics software, on your machines.