<h4 align="center">Golang-based MCP server connecting to Kubernetes</h4>

<p align="center"> <a href="#features">Features</a> ⚙ <a href="#browse-with-inspector">Browse With Inspector</a> ⚙ <a href="#use-with-claude">Use With Claude</a> ⚙ <a href="https://github.com/strowk/mcp-k8s-go/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md">Contributing ↗</a> ⚙ <a href="https://modelcontextprotocol.io">About MCP ↗</a> </p>

Features

MCP 💬 prompt 🗂️ resource 🤖 tool

🗂️🤖 List Kubernetes contexts
💬🤖 List Kubernetes namespaces
🤖 List, get, create and modify any Kubernetes resources
includes custom mappings for resources like pods, services, deployments
🤖 List Kubernetes nodes
💬 List Kubernetes pods
🤖 Get Kubernetes events
🤖 Get Kubernetes pod logs
🤖 Run command in Kubernetes pod

Browse With Inspector

To use latest published version with Inspector you can run this:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector npx @strowk/mcp-k8s

Use With Claude

<details><summary><b> Demo Usage </b></summary>

Following chat with Claude Desktop demonstrates how it looks when selected particular context as a resource and then asked to check pod logs for errors in kube-system namespace:

!Claude Desktop

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To use this MCP server with Claude Desktop (or any other client) you might need to choose which way of installation to use.

You have multiple options:

| | <a href="#using-smithery">Smithery</a> | <a href="#using-mcp-get">mcp-get</a> | <a href="#prebuilt-from-npm">Pre-built NPM</a> | <a href="#from-github-releases">Pre-built in Github</a> | <a href="#building-from-source">From sources</a> | <a href="#using-docker">Using Docker</a> | | ------------ | -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------- | | Claude Setup | Auto | Auto | Manual | Manual | Manual | Manual | | Prerequisite | Node.js | Node.js | Node.js | None | Golang | Docker |

Using Smithery

To install MCP K8S Go for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @strowk/mcp-k8s --client claude

Using mcp-get

To install MCP K8S Go for Claude Desktop automatically via mcp-get:

npx @michaellatman/mcp-get@latest install @strowk/mcp-k8s

Manually with prebuilt binaries

Prebuilt from npm

Use this if you have npm installed and want to use pre-built binaries:

npm install -g @strowk/mcp-k8s

Then check version by running mcp-k8s --version and if this printed installed version, you can proceed to add configuration to claude_desktop_config.json file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp_k8s": {
      "command": "mcp-k8s",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

, or using npx with any client:

npx @strowk/mcp-k8s

For example for Claude:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp_k8s": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "@strowk/mcp-k8s"
      ]
    }
  }
}

From GitHub releases

Head to GitHub releases and download the latest release for your platform.

Unpack the archive, which would contain binary named mcp-k8s-go, put that binary somewhere in your PATH and then add the following configuration to the claude_desktop_config.json file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp_k8s": {
      "command": "mcp-k8s-go",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

Building from source

You would need Golang installed to build this project:

go get github.com/strowk/mcp-k8s-go
go install github.com/strowk/mcp-k8s-go

, and then add the following configuration to the claude_desktop_config.json file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp_k8s_go": {
      "command": "mcp-k8s-go",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

Using Docker

This server is built and published to Docker Hub since 0.3.1-beta.2 release with multi-arch images available for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 architectures.

You can use latest tag f.e like this:

docker run -i -v ~/.kube/config:/home/nonroot/.kube/config --rm mcpk8s/server:latest

Windows users might need to replace ~/.kube/config with //c/Users/<username>/.kube/config at least in Git Bash.

For Claude:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp_k8s_go": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "-v",
        "~/.kube/config:/home/nonroot/.kube/config",
        "--rm",
        "mcpk8s/server:latest"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Environment Variables and Command-line Options

The following environment variables are used by the MCP server:

KUBECONFIG: Path to your Kubernetes configuration file (optional, defaults to ~/.kube/config)

The following command-line options are supported:

--allowed-contexts=<ctx1,ctx2,...>: Comma-separated list of allowed Kubernetes contexts that users can access. If not specified, all contexts are allowed.
--readonly: Disables any tool which can write changes to the cluster
--help: Display help information
--version: Display version information
--mask-secrets: Mask secrets in the output (default: true). Use --mask-secrets=false to disable masking

For example if you are configuring Claude Desktop, you can add the following configuration to claude_desktop_config.json file:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "mcp_k8s": {
            "command": "mcp-k8s",
            "args": [
                "--allowed-contexts=dev,prod",
                "--readonly"
            ]
        }
    }
}

, which would allow only dev and prod contexts to be used and would disable any tool which can write changes to the cluster.

mcp-k8s-go

Features

Browse With Inspector

Use With Claude

Using Smithery

Using mcp-get

Manually with prebuilt binaries

Prebuilt from npm

From GitHub releases

Building from source

Using Docker

Environment Variables and Command-line Options

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