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Kubernetes Pilot

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Lightweight, centralized control plane server for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters.

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The Central Pilot for Your Kubernetes Fleets ✈️✈️

k8s_pilot is a lightweight, centralized control plane server for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters at once.
With powerful tools and intuitive APIs, you can observe and control all your clusters from one cockpit.


🚀 Overview

  • 🔄 Supports multi-cluster context switching
  • 🔧 Enables CRUD operations on most common Kubernetes resources
  • ⚙️ Powered by MCP for Claude AI and beyond

🧰 Prerequisites

  • Python 3.13 or higher
  • uv package manager
  • Access to Kubernetes clusters (~/.kube/config or in-cluster config)
# Install uv (if not installed) # For MacOS brew install uv # For Linux curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Installation

# Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/bourbonkk/k8s-pilot.git cd k8s-pilot # Launch with uv + MCP uv run --with mcp[cli] mcp run k8s_pilot.py

Usage with Claude Desktop

Use this config to run k8s_pilot MCP server from within Claude:

{ "mcpServers": { "k8s_pilot": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "--directory", "<path-to-cloned-repo>/k8s-pilot", "run", "--with", "mcp[cli]", "mcp", "run", "k8s_pilot.py" ] } } }

Replace with the actual directory where you cloned the repo.

Scenario

Create a Deployment using the nginx:latest image in the pypy namespace, and also create a Service that connects to it. deploy와 서비스생성(영어

Key Features

Multi-Cluster Management

  • Seamlessly interact with multiple Kubernetes clusters
  • Perform context-aware operations
  • Easily switch between clusters via MCP prompts

Resource Control

  • View, create, update, delete:
    • Deployments, Services, Pods
    • ConfigMaps, Secrets, Ingresses
    • StatefulSets, DaemonSets
    • Roles, ClusterRoles
    • PersistentVolumes & Claims

Namespace Operations

  • Create/delete namespaces
  • List all resources in a namespace
  • Manage labels and resource quotas

Node Management

  • View node details and conditions
  • Cordon/uncordon, label/taint nodes
  • List pods per node

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

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