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Connect Claude to Kubernetes

Claude reaches Kubernetes through one Flowplane address. You add Kubernetes once in Flowplane, add that address to Claude, and sign in. Look at your Kubernetes cluster’s workloads, events and pod logs, check rollouts, and scale, restart or delete a pod.

Connect Kubernetes →Set up your assistant
Tools
5 read · 3 change
Sign-in
One shared key
Approval, by default
1 of 3 changes ask first
MCP server
Flowplane’s tools
  1. 1

    Add Kubernetes in Flowplane

    In the Flowplane console, add Kubernetes, type the API server’s address (the server line of your kubeconfig), paste the ServiceAccount token and, if the cluster has its own certificate authority, its CA certificate. A cluster behind a firewall connects through a tunnel.

    The cluster is reached with the token of a ServiceAccount you make, bound to a Role with only the rights you want assistants to have. The workspace pastes it once; the assistant reads and changes only what that account may. Flowplane keeps it sealed; the assistant never sees it.

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  2. 2

    Add Flowplane to Claude

    Your address is shown in the Flowplane console; it looks like

    https://mcp.flowplane.eu/<your-label>

    1. In Claude, open Customize › Connectors, choose + Add, then Add custom connector.
    2. Give it a name, paste your Flowplane address https://mcp.flowplane.eu/<your-label> and choose Continue.
    3. Keep sign-in on Sign in now, choose Add, then sign in to Flowplane in the window that opens and allow Claude.
    4. In a chat, open + › Connectors and turn Flowplane on.

    Steps checked against the vendor’s documentation (Anthropic)

  3. 3

    Ask Claude

    • “Which pods in the production namespace are not running?”
    • “Show the last 100 lines of the api pod’s log.”
    • “Has the rollout of the web deployment finished?”
    • “Scale the worker deployment in staging to 3 replicas.”
    • “What warning events were there in the payments namespace?”
What it can do

What Claude can do in Kubernetes

For teams that run their own Kubernetes cluster. Through Flowplane an AI assistant can list namespaces and the pods, deployments, statefulsets, services, ingresses, jobs, nodes and events in them, look at one object, read a pod’s log and check whether a rollout has finished. It can scale a deployment or statefulset and restart a rollout; deleting a pod waits for your approval by default.

Reads5

  • List namespacesThe cluster's namespaceslist_namespaces
  • List workloads and morePods, deployments, services, jobs, nodes, eventslist_resources
  • Look at one objectA summary, or the whole objectget_resource
  • Read a pod's logThe last lines of a container's logget_logs
  • Check a rolloutWhether a deployment has finished rolling outrollout_status

Changes3

  • Scale a workloadSet how many replicas a workload runsscale
  • Restart a rolloutReplace its pods one by onerestart_rollout
  • Delete a podasks firstIts controller usually makes a new onedelete_pod
FAQ

Questions

Can the assistant read my Secrets?
No. A Secret is listed by name, type and age only; its data is never read into an answer. A ConfigMap shows the names of its keys, not their values. To keep Secrets from being listed at all, give the ServiceAccount no right on them.
What can it change in the cluster?
Scaling a deployment or statefulset and restarting a rollout, which can be undone and are allowed by default, and deleting a pod, which waits for your approval by default. exec, attach, port-forward, applying manifests and editing other fields are never offered. Whatever the ServiceAccount’s Role does not allow is refused by the cluster itself.
Does Claude see the password or key for Kubernetes?
No. The key for Kubernetes is pasted into Flowplane once and kept sealed there. Claude only gets a Flowplane sign-in for you, which you can revoke in the console.
Can Claude change things in Kubernetes without asking?
Some changes are allowed by default and 1 of 3 wait for your approval; the list above marks which. Your workspace’s rules decide, per tool.
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