Set up Kubernetes
A Go server for Kubernetes and OpenShift: apply resources, read pod logs, exec into pods and run Helm.
- Publisher
- containers (Red Hat-led community) Community
- Run locally
npx -y kubernetes-mcp-server@latest- Transports
- stdio, sse, streamable-http
- Authentication
- Your kubeconfig, or the file KUBECONFIG points to.
- Environment
KUBECONFIG- What it can touch
- Read and write; --read-only limits it to reads.
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Source
- github.com/containers/kubernetes-mcp-server
- Status
- Active
Install
This server runs on your machine as a child process of the client. You need the runtime its command uses, such as Node.js for npx, uv for uvx or Docker, plus any variables listed under Environment.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --scope project kubernetes -- npx -y kubernetes-mcp-server@latest
Cursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"kubernetes": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"kubernetes-mcp-server@latest"
]
}
}
}
Codex
[mcp_servers.kubernetes]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "kubernetes-mcp-server@latest"]
It acts on your current kubeconfig context, so add --read-only unless the agent should change the cluster.
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