Quickstart

Using our testing instance

We have an openly available testing instance .

This instance has deployments disabled, but you can design routes and try Kaoto. As a suggestion, you can use some of our workshops as guides.

Using a standalone executable

Go to https://github.com/KaotoIO/kaoto-ui/releases/latest and download the appropriate file (see following sections) from the Assets section at the bottom of the release information.

Using JAR file

As a pre-requisite, you must have Java 17+ already installed in your computer.

Then, run the jar file as you would run it normally:

java -jar kaoto-$version-runner.jar

You can now access Kaoto on http://localhost:8081

Learn more about how to use Kaoto on the User Guide

Using native executable

If you downloaded one of the native executables valid for your architecture and operative system, you just have to run the downloaded file as you would run any other application file in your operative system.

Note that as it is a native build, you should have the exact same environment as the one in which the executable was built. All our executables are built using the latest versions of GitHub machines.

You can now access Kaoto on http://localhost:8081

Learn more about how to use Kaoto on the User Guide

Using VS Code

The VS Code Kaoto extension is integrating Kaoto as an editor.

You can find specific information to get started on the wiki page of the VS Code Kaoto project .

You can also watch this video .

Using Docker

The only pre-requisite is to have docker installed .

docker run --rm  -p 8081:8081  --name kaoto kaotoio/standalone:latest

You can now access Kaoto on http://localhost:8081

Learn more about how to use Kaoto on the User Guide

Always stop the containers when finishing using Kaoto, so you don’t have containers dangling:

docker stop kaoto