The Model Context Protocol lets AI talk to Kubernetes, Terraform and GitHub. Powerful, and risky.

For a long time, using AI for infrastructure work meant copying and pasting. Copy the error into the chat, copy the answer back into the terminal. The AI could only see what you showed it.

The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, changes that. It gives AI assistants a standard way to connect to tools and data. And for DevOps, that means an assistant that can actually look at your cluster, your pipelines and your dashboards.

What MCP is, without the hype

MCP is an open protocol, introduced by Anthropic in late 2024 and now supported by most major AI tools.…