diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index dd51e7b07..d8e1e1899 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -303,6 +303,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "alloc-no-stdlib",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "allocator-api2"
+version = "0.2.16"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0942ffc6dcaadf03badf6e6a2d0228460359d5e34b57ccdc720b7382dfbd5ec5"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "anes"
 version = "0.1.6"
@@ -664,6 +670,15 @@ version = "0.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "37b2a672a2cb129a2e41c10b1224bb368f9f37a2b16b612598138befd7b37eb5"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "castaway"
+version = "0.2.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8a17ed5635fc8536268e5d4de1e22e81ac34419e5f052d4d51f4e01dcc263fcc"
+dependencies = [
+ "rustversion",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "cc"
 version = "1.0.79"
@@ -791,7 +806,7 @@ version = "4.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "191d9573962933b4027f932c600cd252ce27a8ad5979418fe78e43c07996f27b"
 dependencies = [
- "heck",
+ "heck 0.4.1",
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
  "syn 2.0.28",
@@ -809,6 +824,17 @@ version = "1.0.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "acbf1af155f9b9ef647e42cdc158db4b64a1b61f743629225fde6f3e0be2a7c7"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "compact_str"
+version = "0.4.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e33b5c3ee2b4ffa00ac2b00d1645cd9229ade668139bccf95f15fadcf374127b"
+dependencies = [
+ "castaway",
+ "itoa",
+ "ryu",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "concat-arrays"
 version = "0.1.2"
@@ -832,6 +858,26 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.45.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "const_format"
+version = "0.2.31"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c990efc7a285731f9a4378d81aff2f0e85a2c8781a05ef0f8baa8dac54d0ff48"
+dependencies = [
+ "const_format_proc_macros",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "const_format_proc_macros"
+version = "0.2.31"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e026b6ce194a874cb9cf32cd5772d1ef9767cc8fcb5765948d74f37a9d8b2bf6"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "unicode-xid",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "constant_time_eq"
 version = "0.1.5"
@@ -1224,9 +1270,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "either"
-version = "1.8.1"
+version = "1.9.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7fcaabb2fef8c910e7f4c7ce9f67a1283a1715879a7c230ca9d6d1ae31f16d91"
+checksum = "a26ae43d7bcc3b814de94796a5e736d4029efb0ee900c12e2d54c993ad1a1e07"
 dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
@@ -1715,6 +1761,19 @@ name = "hashbrown"
 version = "0.14.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "2c6201b9ff9fd90a5a3bac2e56a830d0caa509576f0e503818ee82c181b3437a"
+dependencies = [
+ "ahash 0.8.3",
+ "allocator-api2",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "hashlink"
+version = "0.8.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "312f66718a2d7789ffef4f4b7b213138ed9f1eb3aa1d0d82fc99f88fb3ffd26f"
+dependencies = [
+ "hashbrown 0.14.0",
+]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "heapless"
@@ -1729,6 +1788,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "stable_deref_trait",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "heck"
+version = "0.3.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6d621efb26863f0e9924c6ac577e8275e5e6b77455db64ffa6c65c904e9e132c"
+dependencies = [
+ "unicode-segmentation",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "heck"
 version = "0.4.1"
@@ -1892,6 +1960,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-normalization",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ignore-result"
+version = "0.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "665ff4dce8edd10d490641ccb78949832f1ddbff02c584fb1f85ab888fe0e50c"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "index-scheduler"
 version = "1.3.0"
@@ -2615,6 +2689,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror",
  "time",
  "uuid 1.3.3",
+ "zookeeper-client",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2864,6 +2939,27 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "num_enum"
+version = "0.5.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1f646caf906c20226733ed5b1374287eb97e3c2a5c227ce668c1f2ce20ae57c9"
+dependencies = [
+ "num_enum_derive",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "num_enum_derive"
+version = "0.5.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "dcbff9bc912032c62bf65ef1d5aea88983b420f4f839db1e9b0c281a25c9c799"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro-crate",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 1.0.109",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "object"
 version = "0.30.3"
@@ -3159,6 +3255,16 @@ version = "0.2.17"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "5b40af805b3121feab8a3c29f04d8ad262fa8e0561883e7653e024ae4479e6de"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "proc-macro-crate"
+version = "1.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7f4c021e1093a56626774e81216a4ce732a735e5bad4868a03f3ed65ca0c3919"
+dependencies = [
+ "once_cell",
+ "toml_edit",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "proc-macro-error"
 version = "1.0.4"
@@ -3853,6 +3959,28 @@ version = "0.10.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "73473c0e59e6d5812c5dfe2a064a6444949f089e20eec9a2e5506596494e4623"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "strum"
+version = "0.23.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "cae14b91c7d11c9a851d3fbc80a963198998c2a64eec840477fa92d8ce9b70bb"
+dependencies = [
+ "strum_macros",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "strum_macros"
+version = "0.23.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5bb0dc7ee9c15cea6199cde9a127fa16a4c5819af85395457ad72d68edc85a38"
+dependencies = [
+ "heck 0.3.3",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "rustversion",
+ "syn 1.0.109",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "subtle"
 version = "2.5.0"
@@ -4732,6 +4860,27 @@ dependencies = [
  "zstd 0.11.2+zstd.1.5.2",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "zookeeper-client"
+version = "0.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ade019937af9b1e2160582cb8d905bcff5d4b71da82444b7bf2ccc9c93f344f2"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "compact_str",
+ "const_format",
+ "either",
+ "hashbrown 0.12.3",
+ "hashlink",
+ "ignore-result",
+ "log",
+ "num_enum",
+ "static_assertions",
+ "strum",
+ "thiserror",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "zstd"
 version = "0.11.2+zstd.1.5.2"
diff --git a/meilisearch-auth/Cargo.toml b/meilisearch-auth/Cargo.toml
index 51be88f9e..965a4f1ce 100644
--- a/meilisearch-auth/Cargo.toml
+++ b/meilisearch-auth/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,3 +24,4 @@ sha2 = "0.10.6"
 thiserror = "1.0.40"
 time = { version = "0.3.20", features = ["serde-well-known", "formatting", "parsing", "macros"] }
 uuid = { version = "1.3.1", features = ["serde", "v4"] }
+zookeeper-client = "0.4.0"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/meilisearch/src/lib.rs b/meilisearch/src/lib.rs
index ef821f49f..ca775559c 100644
--- a/meilisearch/src/lib.rs
+++ b/meilisearch/src/lib.rs
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ use meilisearch_types::versioning::{check_version_file, create_version_file};
 use meilisearch_types::{compression, milli, VERSION_FILE_NAME};
 pub use option::Opt;
 use option::ScheduleSnapshot;
+use zookeeper_client as zk;
 
 use crate::error::MeilisearchHttpError;
 
@@ -220,7 +221,8 @@ fn open_or_create_database_unchecked(
 ) -> anyhow::Result<(IndexScheduler, AuthController)> {
     // we don't want to create anything in the data.ms yet, thus we
     // wrap our two builders in a closure that'll be executed later.
-    let auth_controller = AuthController::new(&opt.db_path, &opt.master_key);
+    let zk_client = zk::Client::connect(&opt.cluster).await.unwrap();
+    let auth_controller = AuthController::new(&opt.db_path, &opt.master_key, zk_client.clone());
     let instance_features = opt.to_instance_features();
     let index_scheduler_builder = || -> anyhow::Result<_> {
         Ok(IndexScheduler::new(IndexSchedulerOptions {