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Rancher

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github.com/asklokeshCloud & Infra0Updated 43w ago
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About Rancher

Rancher is an MCP server for connecting GenAI applications to Rancher’s Kubernetes management and deployment API. It provides broad API coverage with multiple authentication methods and request handling features.

Key features

  1. 01Broad Rancher API coverage
  2. 02Multiple authentication methods
  3. 03Rate limiting
  4. 04Error handling and retries
  5. 05Asynchronous support

Use cases

  1. 01Connecting GenAI apps to Rancher
  2. 02Handling API requests with retries

MCP support

Exposes Rancher API capabilities to MCP clients, enabling GenAI applications to integrate with Rancher.

Configuration

Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.

mcp.json · Universal config
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "asklokesh-rancher": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "rancher-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "RANCHER_API_KEY": "<RANCHER_API_KEY>",
        "RANCHER_API_URL": "<RANCHER_API_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}
Run commanduvx rancher-mcp-server
Environment variables to set
RANCHER_API_KEYSecretAPI Key for RANCHER
RANCHER_API_URLAPI URL for RANCHER

Local servers need a runtime on your machine (e.g. Node.js 18+). Config file locations differ by client; see your client’s docs.

Packages
pypirancher-mcp-server0.1.0

Tools

No tool list yet

Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.

Details

From the project README

Rancher MCP Server

Rancher Mcp Server

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A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for integrating Rancher with GenAI applications.

Overview

Kubernetes management and deployment platform

Features

  • Comprehensive Rancher API coverage
  • Multiple authentication methods
  • Enterprise-ready with rate limiting
  • Full error handling and retry logic
  • Async support for better performance

Installation

pip install rancher-mcp-server

Or install from source:

git clone https://github.com/asklokesh/rancher-mcp-server.git
cd rancher-mcp-server
pip install -e .

Configuration

Create a .env file or set environment variables according to Rancher API requirements.

Quick Start

from rancher_mcp import RancherMCPServer

# Initialize the server
server = RancherMCPServer()

# Start the server
server.start()

License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details

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