Install Pollen8
Install Pollen8
Pollen8 ships as a single container image plus a Helm chart. You deploy into your own cloud account — AWS or Azure — so files and queries never leave your perimeter.
Pick your path:
| Cloud | Time to first sign-in | Path |
|---|---|---|
| AWS | ~10 min | Install on AWS |
| Azure | ~15 min | Install on Azure |
Either path leaves you with the same Pollen8 Core API, the same web app, and the same setup wizard.
What gets created in your account
| Resource | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Object storage (S3 / Blob) | Files customers upload; your Coverage RAG corpus |
| Vector index (S3 Vectors / AI Search) | Embeddings for retrieval; one tenant per index |
| Postgres | Pollen8 metadata, audit log, prompt config |
| Runtime identity (IAM role / Managed Identity) | Least-privilege access to the above |
| Kubernetes cluster | Where the Pollen8 Core API runs |
Nothing Pollen8-owned is provisioned outside your account. We publish container images to a public registry; you pull them into your cluster.
Prerequisites
- A target cloud account with admin access for the first-time bootstrap.
- A domain (e.g.
pollenix.your-company.com) that you can point at the load balancer Pollen8 creates. - An AI provider you’ll wire up later (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, or Google) — see AI providers.
The first user to complete the first-run wizard becomes the app admin for that deployment. There is no default seed user.
Once the cloud resources are live, head to First-run wizard.