Kubectl MCP Tool

- 🤖 253 Powerful Tools - Complete Kubernetes management from pods to security
- 🎯 8 AI Workflow Prompts - Pre-built workflows for common operations
- 📊 8 MCP Resources - Browsable Kubernetes data exposure
- 🎨 6 Interactive Dashboards - HTML UI tools for visual cluster management
- 🌐 26 Browser Tools - Web automation with cloud provider support
- 🔄 107 Ecosystem Tools - GitOps, Cert-Manager, Policy, Backup, KEDA, Cilium, Rollouts, CAPI, KubeVirt, Istio, vCluster
- ⚡ Multi-Transport - stdio, SSE, HTTP, streamable-http
- 🔐 Security First - Non-destructive mode, secret masking, RBAC validation
- 🏥 Advanced Diagnostics - AI-powered troubleshooting and cost optimization
- ☸️ Multi-Cluster - Target any cluster via context parameter in every tool
- 🎡 Full Helm v3 - Complete chart lifecycle management
- 🔧 Powerful CLI - Shell-friendly tool discovery and direct calling
- 🐳 Cloud Native - Deploy in-cluster with kMCP or kagent

- Structured errors: Actionable error messages with suggestions
- Colorized output: Human-readable with JSON mode for scripting (--json)
- NO_COLOR support: Respects NO_COLOR environment variable
- Stdin support: Pipe JSON arguments to commands

kubectl-mcp-server call get_pods '{"namespace": "kube-system"}'

| Category | Tools |

|----------|-------|

| Pods | get_pods, get_logs, get_pod_events, check_pod_health, exec_in_pod, cleanup_pods, get_pod_conditions, get_previous_logs |

| Deployments | get_deployments, create_deployment, scale_deployment, kubectl_rollout, restart_deployment |

| Workloads | get_statefulsets, get_daemonsets, get_jobs, get_replicasets |

| Services & Networking | get_services, get_ingress, get_endpoints, diagnose_network_connectivity, check_dns_resolution, trace_service_chain |

| Storage | get_persistent_volumes, get_pvcs, get_storage_classes |

| Config | get_configmaps, get_secrets, get_resource_quotas, get_limit_ranges |

| Cluster | get_nodes, get_namespaces, get_cluster_info, get_cluster_version, health_check, get_node_metrics, get_pod_metrics |

| RBAC & Security | get_rbac_roles, get_cluster_roles, get_service_accounts, audit_rbac_permissions, check_secrets_security, get_pod_security_info, get_admission_webhooks |

| CRDs | get_crds, get_priority_classes |

| Helm Releases | helm_list, helm_status, helm_history, helm_get_values, helm_get_manifest, helm_get_notes, helm_get_hooks, helm_get_all |

| Helm Charts | helm_show_chart, helm_show_values, helm_show_readme, helm_show_crds, helm_show_all, helm_search_repo, helm_search_hub |

| Helm Repos | helm_repo_list, helm_repo_add, helm_repo_remove, helm_repo_update |

| Helm Operations | install_helm_chart, upgrade_helm_chart, uninstall_helm_chart, helm_rollback, helm_test, helm_template, helm_template_apply |

| Helm Development | helm_create, helm_lint, helm_package, helm_pull, helm_dependency_list, helm_dependency_update, helm_dependency_build, helm_version, helm_env |

| Context | get_current_context, switch_context, list_contexts, list_kubeconfig_contexts |

| Diagnostics | diagnose_pod_crash, detect_pending_pods, get_evicted_pods, compare_namespaces |

| Operations | kubectl_apply, kubectl_create, kubectl_describe, kubectl_patch, delete_resource, kubectl_cp, backup_resource, label_resource, annotate_resource, taint_node, wait_for_condition |

| Autoscaling | get_hpa, get_pdb |

| Cost Optimization | get_resource_recommendations, get_idle_resources, get_resource_quotas_usage, get_cost_analysis, get_overprovisioned_resources, get_resource_trends, get_namespace_cost_allocation, optimize_resource_requests |

| Advanced | kubectl_generic, kubectl_explain, get_api_resources, port_forward, get_resource_usage, node_management |

| UI Dashboards | show_pod_logs_ui, show_pods_dashboard_ui, show_resource_yaml_ui, show_cluster_overview_ui, show_events_timeline_ui, render_k8s_dashboard_screenshot |

| GitOps (Flux/Argo) | gitops_apps_list, gitops_app_get, gitops_app_sync, gitops_app_status, gitops_sources_list, gitops_source_get, gitops_detect_engine |

| Cert-Manager | certs_list, certs_get, certs_issuers_list, certs_issuer_get, certs_renew, certs_status_explain, certs_challenges_list, certs_requests_list, certs_detect |

| Policy (Kyverno/Gatekeeper) | policy_list, policy_get, policy_violations_list, policy_explain_denial, policy_audit, policy_detect |

| Backup (Velero) | backup_list, backup_get, backup_create, backup_delete, restore_list, restore_create, restore_get, backup_locations_list, backup_schedules_list, backup_schedule_create, backup_detect |

| KEDA Autoscaling | keda_scaledobjects_list, keda_scaledobject_get, keda_scaledjobs_list, keda_triggerauths_list, keda_triggerauth_get, keda_hpa_list, keda_detect |

| Cilium/Hubble | cilium_policies_list, cilium_policy_get, cilium_endpoints_list, cilium_identities_list, cilium_nodes_list, cilium_status, hubble_flows_query, cilium_detect |

| Argo Rollouts/Flagger | rollouts_list, rollout_get, rollout_status, rollout_promote, rollout_abort, rollout_retry, rollout_restart, analysis_runs_list, flagger_canaries_list, flagger_canary_get, rollouts_detect |

| Cluster API | capi_clusters_list, capi_cluster_get, capi_machines_list, capi_machine_get, capi_machinedeployments_list, capi_machinedeployment_scale, capi_machinesets_list, capi_machinehealthchecks_list, capi_clusterclasses_list, capi_cluster_kubeconfig, capi_detect |

| KubeVirt VMs | kubevirt_vms_list, kubevirt_vm_get, kubevirt_vmis_list, kubevirt_vm_start, kubevirt_vm_stop, kubevirt_vm_restart, kubevirt_vm_pause, kubevirt_vm_unpause, kubevirt_vm_migrate, kubevirt_datasources_list, kubevirt_instancetypes_list, kubevirt_datavolumes_list, kubevirt_detect |

| Istio/Kiali | istio_virtualservices_list, istio_virtualservice_get, istio_destinationrules_list, istio_gateways_list, istio_peerauthentications_list, istio_authorizationpolicies_list, istio_proxy_status, istio_analyze, istio_sidecar_status, istio_detect |

| vCluster (vind) | vind_detect_tool, vind_list_clusters_tool, vind_status_tool, vind_get_kubeconfig_tool, vind_logs_tool, vind_create_cluster_tool, vind_delete_cluster_tool, vind_pause_tool, vind_resume_tool, vind_connect_tool, vind_disconnect_tool, vind_upgrade_tool, vind_describe_tool, vind_platform_start_tool |

| kind (K8s in Docker) | kind_detect_tool, kind_version_tool, kind_list_clusters_tool, kind_get_nodes_tool, kind_get_kubeconfig_tool, kind_export_logs_tool, kind_cluster_info_tool, kind_node_labels_tool, kind_create_cluster_tool, kind_delete_cluster_tool, kind_delete_all_clusters_tool, kind_load_image_tool, kind_load_image_archive_tool, kind_build_node_image_tool, kind_set_kubeconfig_tool |

kubectl-mcp-server call get_pods '{"namespace": "kube-system"}'
Get beautiful HTML dashboards for visual cluster management.
Installation:

Automate web-based Kubernetes operations with agent-browser integration.

Quick Setup:

export MCP_BROWSER_ENABLED=true
kubectl-mcp-server

What You Can Do:
- 🌐 Test deployed apps via Ingress URLs
- 📸 Screenshot Grafana, ArgoCD, or any K8s dashboard
- ☁️ Automate cloud console operations (EKS, GKE, AKS)
- 🏥 Health check web applications
- 📄 Export monitoring dashboards as PDF
- 🔐 Test authentication flows with persistent sessions

26 Available Tools: browser_open, browser_screenshot, browser_click, browser_fill, browser_test_ingress, browser_screenshot_grafana, browser_health_check, and 19 more

Advanced Features:
- Cloud providers: Browserbase, Browser Use
- Persistent browser profiles
- Remote CDP connections
- Session management

Works with Docker MCP Toolkit:

docker mcp server add kubectl-mcp-server mcp/kubectl-mcp-server:latest
docker mcp server configure kubectl-mcp-server --volume "$HOME/.kube:/root/.kube:ro"
docker mcp server enable kubectl-mcp-server
docker mcp client connect claude