Kubernetes MCP Server MCP Server

MCP Server that can connect to a Kubernetes cluster and manage it.

By default, the server loads kubeconfig from ~/.kube/config.

The server will automatically connect to your current kubectl context. Make sure you have:

1. kubectl installed and in your PATH
2. A valid kubeconfig file with contexts configured
3. Access to a Kubernetes cluster configured for kubectl (e.g. minikube, Rancher Desktop, GKE, etc.)
4. Optional: Helm v3 installed and in your PATH.

You can verify your connection by asking Claude to list your pods or create a test deployment.

If you have errors open up a standard terminal and run kubectl get pods to see if you can connect to your cluster without credentials issues.

Features

• Connect to a Kubernetes cluster
• Unified kubectl API for managing resources
• Get or list resources with kubectl_get
• Describe resources with kubectl_describe
• List resources with kubectl_get
• Create resources with kubectl_create
• Apply YAML manifests with kubectl_apply
• Delete resources with kubectl_delete
• Get logs with kubectl_logs
• and more.

Publisher claimed. 22 tools reported by the publisher. Pod has not connected to this server, so nothing here is verified.

Status

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Tools

Its publisher lists 22 tools. Pod has not verified these against the live server yet.

• ping
• cleanup
• kubectl_get
• kubectl_describe
• kubectl_apply
• kubectl_delete
• kubectl_create
• kubectl_logs
• kubectl_patch
• kubectl_rollout
• kubectl_scale
• kubectl_context
• kubectl_generic
• install_helm_chart
• upgrade_helm_chart
• uninstall_helm_chart
• explain_resource
• list_api_resources
• node_management
• exec_in_pod
• port_forward
• stop_port_forward

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Firsthand observations

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