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rancher-mcp-server

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Server Configuration

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
RANCHER_URLYesURL of the Rancher server (e.g., https://rancher.example.com)
RANCHER_TOKENYesAPI token for Rancher (format: token-xxxxx:yyyyyyyyyyyy)
RANCHER_VERIFY_TLSNoSet to 'false' to disable TLS verification (e.g., for self-signed certificates)
RANCHER_MCP_ALLOW_WRITENoSet to 'true' to enable write operations like scale_workload and redeploy_workload
RANCHER_MCP_MAX_REPLICASNoMaximum replicas for scaling (default 20)

Instructions

Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.

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Capabilities

Features and capabilities supported by this server

Protocol revision2025-11-25

CapabilityDetails
tools
{
  "listChanged": false
}
prompts
{
  "listChanged": false
}
resources
{
  "subscribe": false,
  "listChanged": false
}
experimental
{}

Tools

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

NameDescription
list_clustersA

List all Rancher-managed clusters with state and capacity summary.

list_nodesA

List the nodes of a cluster with roles, state and requested resources.

list_projectsA

List Rancher projects of a cluster (project ids are needed to inspect workloads).

list_workloadsA

List workloads (deployments, daemonsets...) of a project, optionally filtered by namespace.

list_podsA

List pods of a project. Set only_unhealthy=True to see only pods in CrashLoopBackOff/Error/Pending states or with more than 3 restarts.

get_pod_logsB

Fetch the last N log lines of a pod. Use previous=True to read logs from the previous (crashed) container instance.

get_eventsB

List recent Kubernetes events of a cluster (Warning events by default).

diagnose_workloadA

One-shot diagnosis of a workload: state, unhealthy pods, restart counts and related Warning events. Ideal first call when something is failing.

scale_workloadA

Scale a workload to N replicas. Requires RANCHER_MCP_ALLOW_WRITE=true. Capped by RANCHER_MCP_MAX_REPLICAS (default 20).

redeploy_workloadB

Trigger a rolling redeploy of a workload (equivalent to the Rancher UI 'Redeploy' button). Requires RANCHER_MCP_ALLOW_WRITE=true.

Prompts

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

NameDescription

No prompts

Resources

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

NameDescription

No resources

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