MCP Server

K8s Lens MCP Server

Name: K8s Lens MCP Server
Author: io.github.firas-mcp-servers

io.github.firas-mcp-servers/k8s-lens-mcp

Repository Registry

What is the K8s Lens MCP server?

MCP server for natural-language Kubernetes operations across single or multi-cluster environments.

How to install K8s Lens

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

KUBECONFIG
Path to kubeconfig file (defaults to ~/.kube/config)
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT
OpenTelemetry OTLP endpoint for tracing (optional)

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "k8s-lens-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "k8s-lens-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "KUBECONFIG": "<YOUR_KUBECONFIG>",
        "OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT": "<YOUR_OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "k8s-lens-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "k8s-lens-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "KUBECONFIG": "<YOUR_KUBECONFIG>",
        "OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT": "<YOUR_OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "k8s-lens-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "k8s-lens-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "KUBECONFIG": "<YOUR_KUBECONFIG>",
        "OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT": "<YOUR_OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "k8s-lens-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "k8s-lens-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "KUBECONFIG": "<YOUR_KUBECONFIG>",
        "OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT": "<YOUR_OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add k8s-lens-mcp --env KUBECONFIG=<YOUR_KUBECONFIG> --env OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=<YOUR_OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT> -- uvx k8s-lens-mcp