Best Portainer MCP Servers
Portainer is a lightweight management UI for Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, and ACI, enabling users to easily manage containers through a web interface.
Why this server?
Offers an optional Portainer UI within sandboxes for managing Docker containers and services.
AlicenseBqualityAmaintenanceSelf-hosted Docker sandboxes for coding agents: create a sandbox with its own Docker daemon, deploy a docker-compose stack into it, read and write its files, and get a URL for every app. Tokens can be limited to one sandbox.386AGPL 3.0Why this server?
Enables management of Docker containers, images, networks, and volumes through Portainer's API, including operations like creating, starting, stopping, removing, and inspecting resources.
AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceEnables AI models to manage Docker containers, images, networks, and volumes through the Portainer API, providing comprehensive container orchestration capabilities.21MITWhy this server?
Uses Portainer as an alternative to the Docker socket for container operations, including listing Portainer stacks and reading their compose files.
AlicenseBqualityAmaintenanceEnables AI assistants to manage Nginx Proxy Manager proxy hosts, Docker containers, and Cloudflare DNS records, with safety approvals and cross-module workflows for exposing, tearing down, and checking services.16336 PyPIMITWhy this server?
Provides tools to manage Portainer environments, including deploying and updating stacks, managing containers, images, volumes, and networks, executing commands, analyzing logs, and inspecting endpoints.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceEnables AI assistants to manage Portainer container environments through natural language, including deploying stacks, managing containers, images, volumes, networks, and executing commands.532MITWhy this server?
Manage Portainer environments, including containers, stacks, images, networks, and volumes via the Portainer REST API.
AlicenseBqualityDmaintenanceMCP server for Portainer REST API that enables AI assistants to manage Docker containers, stacks, images, networks, and volumes through natural language.1817 npmMITWhy this server?
Provides tools to manage Portainer stacks: list stacks, get stack compose files, and update stacks.
Why this server?
Lists and inspects Docker containers across hosts via Portainer.
AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceAn MCP server exposing 72 tools across 26 homelab services, enabling LLMs to monitor and manage infrastructure, media, storage, and networking with a single endpoint.16MITWhy this server?
Integrates with Portainer's management API to administer Docker endpoints and stacks, including listing endpoints and stacks, viewing stack details, and recreating stacks.
AlicenseAqualityAmaintenanceGoverned Docker + Portainer container-host operations (non-Kubernetes) — restart-loop, resource-pressure, and image/volume-bloat RCA, with guarded lifecycle writes, unbypassable audit logging (MCP + CLI), budget/runaway guards, dry-run, and undo/rollback.38MITWhy this server?
Provides tools for managing Portainer environments, creating/starting/stopping/deleting containers, pulling/deleting images, and creating/updating/deleting Compose stacks.
AlicenseNot gradedqualityBmaintenanceEnables control of a home lab through a single MCP server, exposing tools for Home Assistant, Portainer, Sonarr, Radarr, SABnzbd, and Jellyfin so Claude can query states, manage containers and stacks, handle media libraries and download queues, and run automations. Each service is optional and can be configured via environment variables, with a read-only mode and bearer-token-protected HTTP transport for always-on deployments.1MIT