---
title: "Calinora Pilot Documentation is Live - Calinora Blog"
description: "We've published comprehensive documentation for Calinora Pilot at docs.calinora.io - getting started guides, feature deep-dives, deployment recipes, and a full API reference."
url: "https://blog.calinora.io/posts/documentation-site-launch/"
date: "2026-03-12"
---

March 12, 2026

# Calinora Pilot Documentation is Live

We’ve launched the official documentation site for Calinora Pilot at [docs.calinora.io](https://docs.calinora.io). Whether you’re evaluating Pilot for the first time or running it in production, this is your reference for everything from initial setup to advanced configuration.

## What’s Covered

### Getting Started

Three guides to get you running quickly:

- [**Installation**](https://docs.calinora.io/getting-started/installation) - Pull the Docker image and verify it for your platform (amd64/arm64)
- [**Quick Start**](https://docs.calinora.io/getting-started/quickstart) - Connect Pilot to an existing cluster in under 5 minutes
- [**Docker Quick Start**](https://docs.calinora.io/getting-started/quickstart-docker) - Spin up a full multi-broker Kafka cluster locally with Docker Compose for testing

### Feature Documentation

Every Pilot feature has its own page with usage examples, API endpoints, and UI walkthroughs:

- [**Rebalancing Proposals**](https://docs.calinora.io/features/proposals) - How the multi-phase pipeline generates optimal partition moves across leaders, replicas, disk usage, and activity
- [**What-If Simulator**](https://docs.calinora.io/features/what-if) - Model broker failures, rack outages, and traffic spikes before they happen
- [**Self-Healing**](https://docs.calinora.io/features/self-healing) - Three independent healing loops for URP fixes, rack violations, and replication factor increases
- [**Maintenance Mode**](https://docs.calinora.io/features/maintenance-mode) - Safe broker offline procedures for upgrades and decommissioning
- [**AI Chat Assistant**](https://docs.calinora.io/features/chat) - Natural language cluster management with approval gates for mutations
- [**MCP Integration**](https://docs.calinora.io/features/mcp) - 67+ tools for connecting external AI agents to your cluster
- [**Message Browser**](https://docs.calinora.io/features/message-browser) - Inspect Kafka messages without setting up a separate consumer

Plus consumer groups, client quotas, ACL management, and more.

### Configuration

Pilot is configured entirely through environment variables - no config files to manage. The docs cover every scenario:

- [**SASL Authentication**](https://docs.calinora.io/configuration/sasl) - PLAIN, SCRAM, GSSAPI, and OAUTHBEARER
- [**TLS/SSL**](https://docs.calinora.io/configuration/tls) - Client TLS, mutual TLS, inline PEM certificates
- [**OAuth for Kafka**](https://docs.calinora.io/configuration/oauth) - Token-based auth with Azure AD, Keycloak, and Okta
- [**UI Authentication**](https://docs.calinora.io/configuration/authentication) - Secure the dashboard with Microsoft Entra ID, Google, GitHub, or any OIDC provider (Keycloak, AD FS, Okta)
- [**Audit Logging**](https://docs.calinora.io/configuration/audit-logging) - Track every action to a Kafka topic for compliance

### Deployment

Whether you’re running a quick test or deploying to production:

- [**Docker**](https://docs.calinora.io/deployment/docker) - Minimal distroless image at ~20MB
- [**Docker Compose**](https://docs.calinora.io/deployment/docker-compose) - Pre-built stacks with SASL, TLS, and OAuth variants
- [**Kubernetes**](https://docs.calinora.io/deployment/kubernetes) - Deployment manifests with health probes, resource limits, and Prometheus annotations

### Guides

Step-by-step tutorials for common workflows:

- [**Your First Rebalance**](https://docs.calinora.io/guides/first-rebalance) - Walk through generating, reviewing, and applying a proposal
- [**Monitoring Setup**](https://docs.calinora.io/guides/monitoring-setup) - Prometheus configuration and Grafana dashboards
- [**Production Checklist**](https://docs.calinora.io/guides/production-checklist) - Security, performance, and operational validation before go-live
- [**Troubleshooting**](https://docs.calinora.io/guides/troubleshooting) - Common issues and their solutions

### Reference

- [**Full API Reference**](https://docs.calinora.io/api/reference) - Complete OpenAPI documentation for all REST endpoints
- [**Prometheus Metrics**](https://docs.calinora.io/reference/metrics) - Every metric Pilot exposes, grouped by category
- [**Environment Variables**](https://docs.calinora.io/reference/environment-variables) - Alphabetical reference of all configuration options
- [**Changelog**](https://docs.calinora.io/reference/changelog) - Version history and release notes

## Feedback Welcome

Found something missing or unclear? We’d love to hear from you at <support@calinora.io>.