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Kubernetes MCP Server

✨ Features | 🚀 Getting Started | 🎥 Demos | ⚙️ Configuration | 🛠️ Tools | 🧑‍💻 Development

kubernetes-mcp-server.mp4

✨ Features

A powerful and flexible Kubernetes Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation with support for Kubernetes and OpenShift.

• ✅ Configuration:
  • Automatically detect changes in the Kubernetes configuration and update the MCP server.
  • View and manage the current Kubernetes .kube/config or in-cluster configuration.
• ✅ Generic Kubernetes Resources: Perform operations on any Kubernetes or OpenShift resource.
  • Any CRUD operation (Create or Update, Get, List, Delete).
• ✅ Pods: Perform Pod-specific operations.
  • List pods in all namespaces or in a specific namespace.
  • Get a pod by name from the specified namespace.
  • Delete a pod by name from the specified namespace.
  • Show logs for a pod by name from the specified namespace.
  • Exec into a pod and run a command.
  • Run a container image in a pod and optionally expose it.
• ✅ Namespaces: List Kubernetes Namespaces.
• ✅ Events: View Kubernetes events in all namespaces or in a specific namespace.
• ✅ Projects: List OpenShift Projects.
• ☸️ Helm:
  • List Helm releases in all namespaces or in a specific namespace.

Unlike other Kubernetes MCP server implementations, this IS NOT just a wrapper around kubectl or helm command-line tools.

There is NO NEED for external dependencies or tools to be installed on the system. If you're using the native binaries you don't even need to have Node or Python installed on your system.

🚀 Getting Started

Requirements

• Access to a Kubernetes cluster.

Claude Desktop

Using npx

If you have npm installed, this is the fastest way to get started with kubernetes-mcp-server on Claude Desktop.

Open your claude_desktop_config.json and add the mcp server to the list of mcpServers:

{ "mcpServers": { "kubernetes": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "kubernetes-mcp-server@latest" ] } } }

VS Code / VS Code Insiders

Install the Kubernetes MCP server extension in VS Code Insiders by pressing the following link:

Alternatively, you can install the extension manually by running the following command:

For VS Code

code --add-mcp '{"name":"kubernetes","command":"npx","args":["kubernetes-mcp-server@latest"]}'

For VS Code Insiders

code-insiders --add-mcp '{"name":"kubernetes","command":"npx","args":["kubernetes-mcp-server@latest"]}'

Goose CLI

Goose CLI is the easiest (and cheapest) way to get rolling with artificial intelligence (AI) agents.

Using npm

If you have npm installed, this is the fastest way to get started with kubernetes-mcp-server.

Open your goose config.yaml and add the mcp server to the list of mcpServers:

extensions: kubernetes: command: npx args: - -y - kubernetes-mcp-server@latest

🎥 Demos

Diagnosing and automatically fixing an OpenShift Deployment

Demo showcasing how Kubernetes MCP server is leveraged by Claude Desktop to automatically diagnose and fix a deployment in OpenShift without any user assistance.

kubernetes-mcp-server-fix-openshift-deployment.mp4

Vibe Coding a simple game and deploying it to OpenShift

In this demo, I walk you through the process of Vibe Coding a simple game using VS Code and how to leverage Podman MCP server and Kubernetes MCP server to deploy it to OpenShift.

⚙️ Configuration

The Kubernetes MCP server can be configured using command line (CLI) arguments.

You can run the CLI executable either by using npx, uvx, or by downloading the latest release binary.

Run the Kubernetes MCP server using npx (in case you have npm and node installed)

npx kubernetes-mcp-server@latest --help

Run the Kubernetes MCP server using uvx (in case you have uv and python installed)

uvx kubernetes-mcp-server@latest --help

Run the Kubernetes MCP server using the latest release binary

./kubernetes-mcp-server --help

Configuration Options

🛠️ Tools

configuration_view

Get the current Kubernetes configuration content as a kubeconfig YAML

Parameters:

• minified (boolean, optional, default: true)
  • Return a minified version of the configuration
  • If true, keeps only the current-context and relevant configuration pieces
  • If false, returns all contexts, clusters, auth-infos, and users

events_list

List all the Kubernetes events in the current cluster from all namespaces

Parameters:

• namespace (string, optional)
  • Namespace to retrieve the events from. If not provided, will list events from all namespaces

namespaces_list

List all the Kubernetes namespaces in the current cluster

Parameters: None

pods_delete

Delete a Kubernetes Pod in the current or provided namespace with the provided name

Parameters:

• name (string, required)
  • Name of the Pod to delete
• namespace (string, required)
  • Namespace to delete the Pod from

pods_exec

Execute a command in a Kubernetes Pod in the current or provided namespace with the provided name and command

Parameters:

• command (string[], required)
  • Command to execute in the Pod container
  • First item is the command, rest are arguments
  • Example: ["ls", "-l", "/tmp"]
• name (string, required)
  • Name of the Pod
• namespace (string, required)
  • Namespace of the Pod
• container (string, optional)
  • Name of the Pod container to get logs from

pods_get

Get a Kubernetes Pod in the current or provided namespace with the provided name

Parameters:

• name (string, required)
  • Name of the Pod
• namespace (string, required)
  • Namespace to get the Pod from

pods_list

List all the Kubernetes pods in the current cluster from all namespaces

Parameters: None

pods_list_in_namespace

List all the Kubernetes pods in the specified namespace in the current cluster

Parameters:

• namespace (string, required)
  • Namespace to list pods from

pods_log

Get the logs of a Kubernetes Pod in the current or provided namespace with the provided name

Parameters:

• name (string, required)
  • Name of the Pod to get logs from
• namespace (string, required)
  • Namespace to get the Pod logs from
• container (string, optional)
  • Name of the Pod container to get logs from

pods_run

Run a Kubernetes Pod in the current or provided namespace with the provided container image and optional name

Parameters:

• image (string, required)
  • Container Image to run in the Pod
• namespace (string, required)
  • Namespace to run the Pod in
• name (string, optional)
  • Name of the Pod (random name if not provided)
• port (number, optional)
  • TCP/IP port to expose from the Pod container
  • No port exposed if not provided

projects_list

List all the OpenShift projects in the current cluster

resources_create_or_update

Create or update a Kubernetes resource in the current cluster by providing a YAML or JSON representation of the resource

Parameters:

• resource (string, required)
  • A JSON or YAML containing a representation of the Kubernetes resource
  • Should include top-level fields such as apiVersion, kind, metadata, and spec

Common apiVersion and kind include:

• v1 Pod
• v1 Service
• v1 Node
• apps/v1 Deployment
• networking.k8s.io/v1 Ingress

resources_delete

Delete a Kubernetes resource in the current cluster

Parameters:

• apiVersion (string, required)
  • apiVersion of the resource (e.g., v1, apps/v1, networking.k8s.io/v1)
• kind (string, required)
  • kind of the resource (e.g., Pod, Service, Deployment, Ingress)
• name (string, required)
  • Name of the resource
• namespace (string, optional)
  • Namespace to delete the namespaced resource from
  • Ignored for cluster-scoped resources
  • Uses configured namespace if not provided

resources_get

Get a Kubernetes resource in the current cluster

Parameters:

• apiVersion (string, required)
  • apiVersion of the resource (e.g., v1, apps/v1, networking.k8s.io/v1)
• kind (string, required)
  • kind of the resource (e.g., Pod, Service, Deployment, Ingress)
• name (string, required)
  • Name of the resource
• namespace (string, optional)
  • Namespace to retrieve the namespaced resource from
  • Ignored for cluster-scoped resources
  • Uses configured namespace if not provided

resources_list

List Kubernetes resources and objects in the current cluster

Parameters:

• apiVersion (string, required)
  • apiVersion of the resources (e.g., v1, apps/v1, networking.k8s.io/v1)
• kind (string, required)
  • kind of the resources (e.g., Pod, Service, Deployment, Ingress)
• namespace (string, optional)
  • Namespace to retrieve the namespaced resources from
  • Ignored for cluster-scoped resources
  • Lists resources from all namespaces if not provided

🧑‍💻 Development

Running with mcp-inspector

Compile the project and run the Kubernetes MCP server with mcp-inspector to inspect the MCP server.

Compile the project

make build

Run the Kubernetes MCP server with mcp-inspector

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector@latest $(pwd)/kubernetes-mcp-server