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Flux MCP Server Introduction

The Flux Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server connects AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and others directly to your Kubernetes clusters running Flux Operator, enabling seamless interaction through natural language. It serves as a bridge between AI tools and your GitOps pipelines, allowing you to analyze the cluster state, troubleshoot deployment issues, and perform operations using conversational prompts.

Features

  • Cluster State Analysis

    Quickly understand your Flux installation status, resource configurations, and deployment histories across environments.

  • Cross-Cluster Comparisons

    Compare Flux configurations for applications and infrastructure between development, staging, and production.

  • Enhanced On-Call Experience

    Reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) during incidents with contextual analysis and actionable remediation steps.

  • Root Cause Analysis

    Automatically correlate events, logs, and configuration changes to identify the source of failures in a GitOps pipeline.

  • GitOps Automation

    Trigger reconciliations, suspend/resume Flux resources, and manage your delivery pipelines with simple requests.

  • Visual GitOps Pipelines

    Generate diagrams that map out Flux dependencies, resource relationships, and delivery workflows across clusters.

How It Works

The Flux MCP Server integrates with AI assistants through the Model Context Protocol, providing them with purpose-built tools to interact with your clusters. When you ask a question or make a request, the AI uses these tools to gather information, analyze configurations, and perform operations based on your instructions.

The AI assistants leveraging the Flux MCP Server can trace issues from high-level GitOps resources like ResourceSets, HelmReleases, and Kustomizations all the way down to individual pod logs. This comprehensive visibility means you can quickly identify where problems originate in your delivery pipeline – whether in Helm chart values, Kubernetes manifests, Flux configurations, or application runtime issues.

AI Instructions

For the best experience, we recommend configuring your AI assistants with custom instructions that guide them on how to interact with Kubernetes and the Flux MCP Server.

Security Considerations

The Flux MCP Server is designed with security in mind:

  • Operates with your existing kubeconfig permissions
  • Supports service account impersonation for limited access
  • Masks sensitive information in Kubernetes Secret values
  • Provides a Kubernetes read-only mode for observation without affecting the cluster state
  • Access to the local file system is read-only and restricted to the kubeconfig file

For a detailed overview of configuring the Flux MCP Server, including security settings, see the Installation Guide.

License

The MCP Server is open-source and part of the Flux Operator project licensed under the AGPL-3.0 license.