Installation

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes cluster (v1.27+ recommended)
• kubectl
• Helm 3.8+ (for OCI registry support) or kustomize
• Access to deploy into your target namespace

Install with Helm (recommended)

Helm 3.8 or later is required for OCI support. CRDs are bundled in the chart's crds/ directory and are installed automatically.

helm install mcp-operator oci://ghcr.io/atippey/charts/mcp-operator \
  --version 0.0.8 \
  --namespace mcp-system \
  --create-namespace

To upgrade an existing installation:

helm upgrade mcp-operator oci://ghcr.io/atippey/charts/mcp-operator \
  --version 0.0.8 \
  --namespace mcp-system

To inspect the default values before installing:

helm show values oci://ghcr.io/atippey/charts/mcp-operator --version 0.0.8

Install with Kustomize

kubectl apply -k https://github.com/atippey/kube-mcp//manifests/base

Verify

kubectl get crd | grep mcp
kubectl get deploy -n mcp-system
kubectl get pods -n mcp-system

Next: Quickstart