---
title: "Installation - Pilot Docs"
description: "How to install Calinora Pilot"
url: "https://docs.calinora.io/getting-started/installation/"
---

# Installation

Pilot is distributed as a Docker image.

## Pull the Image

```bash
docker pull calinora/pilot:latest
```

Multi-architecture images are available for `amd64` and `arm64`.

To pin a specific version:

```bash
docker pull calinora/pilot:0.27.0
```

## Verify

Start Pilot and check the health endpoint:

```bash
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -e KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS=broker:9092 calinora/pilot:latest
```

```bash
curl http://localhost:8080/api/v1/health
# {"success":true,"data":{"status":"ok"}}
```

## Next Steps

- [Quick Start](https://docs.calinora.io/getting-started/quickstart/) - connect to your cluster
- [Docker Quick Start](https://docs.calinora.io/getting-started/quickstart-docker/) - run with Docker Compose
- [Configuration](https://docs.calinora.io/configuration/) - environment variables and security