MCPs/portainer/README.md

portainer-mcp

MCP server for interacting with Portainer (Docker/K8s management).

Source: portainer-mcp

Environment Variables

Variable	Required	Description
PORTAINER_URL	Yes	Base URL of the Portainer instance (e.g. https://portainer.corentic.eu)
PORTAINER_USERNAME	Yes	Portainer username (use admin if using API key)
PORTAINER_PASSWORD	Yes	Portainer password or API key
PORTAINER_VERIFY_SSL	No	Verify SSL certificate (true/false, default: true)
PORTAINER_DEFAULT_ENDPOINT	No	Default endpoint ID (default: 1)
PORTAINER_TIMEOUT	No	Request timeout in seconds (default: 30)
PORTAINER_LONG_TIMEOUT	No	Long request timeout in seconds (default: 300)

Usage

docker run -d \
  --name portainer-mcp \
  -p 8110:8110 \
  -e PORTAINER_URL=https://portainer.corentic.eu \
  -e PORTAINER_USERNAME=admin \
  -e PORTAINER_PASSWORD=your_api_key_or_password \
  -e PORTAINER_VERIFY_SSL=false \
  forgejo.corentic.eu/corentic/mcp-fleet-portainer:latest

Tools

• check_connection — Verify connection to Portainer
• list_endpoints — List all environments (Docker/K8s endpoints)
• list_containers — List Docker containers
• list_images — List Docker images
• list_volumes — List Docker volumes
• list_networks — List Docker networks
• list_stacks — List Docker stacks (compose)
• system_status — Portainer system status
• Container exec, logs, inspect
• Stack create/update/delete
• User management