strowk/mcp-k8s-go

MCP K8S Go
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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:
Use With Claude
Demo Usage
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:
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:
| | Smithery | mcp-get | Pre-built NPM | Pre-built in Github | From sources | Using Docker |
| ------------ | -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------- |
| 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:
Using mcp-get
To install MCP K8S Go for Claude Desktop automatically via mcp-get:
Manually with prebuilt binaries
Prebuilt from npm
Use this if you have npm installed and want to use pre-built binaries:
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:
, or using npx with any client:
For example for Claude:
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:
Building from source
You would need Golang installed to build this project:
, and then add the following configuration to the claude_desktop_config.json file:
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:
Windows users might need to replace ~/.kube/config with //c/Users/ /.kube/config at least in Git Bash.
For Claude:
Environment Variables and Command-line Options