Consul Interface Adapter via MCP Gateway 🌐

This software package serves as an abstraction layer, utilizing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server architecture to furnish controlled access to the functionalities resident within a HashiCorp Consul cluster.

Exposed Capabilities

The adapter exposes the following operational domains of the Consul platform:

Service Registry & Lifecycle Management

Enumeration of active services
Provisioning and decommissioning of service registrations
Retrieval of detailed service metadata
Inventory listing across the service catalog
Inspection of catalog entries for specific services

Distributed Health Verification System

Registration of custom health check probes
Deactivation of registered health checks
Querying the health status associated with registered services

Configuration Data Store (KV)

Fetching stored data entries based on key
Listing all keys present within the store hierarchy
Persisting or updating values at specified keys
Erasing data records identified by key

Session Management Utilities

Displaying currently active sessions
Termination/invalidation of existing sessions

Internal & External Eventing System

Broadcasting custom events across the cluster
Retrieval of historical event logs

Prepared Query Mechanism

Definition and persistence of complex queries
Execution runtime for pre-compiled queries

Cluster Operational Status

Identifying the current cluster leader node
Obtaining the roster of current cluster participants (peers)

Local Agent Introspection

Reviewing the set of members known to the local agent
Retrieving configuration and status details for the local agent instance

System Diagnostics Endpoint

Accessing health-related telemetry for the underlying system components

Operational Parameters

Configuration settings for the adapter are managed via environmental parameters:

CONSUL_HOST: Specifies the network address for the target Consul cluster (Default: localhost).
CONSUL_PORT: Specifies the network port for the target Consul cluster (Default: 8500).

Deployment Instructions

Initiate the adapter process:

node build/index.js

The server will establish connectivity to Consul, making all aforementioned functionality accessible via the MCP transport layer.

Development Workflow

Fetch required project dependencies:

npm install

Compile the source code assets:

npm run build

Launch the inspection utility:

 npm run build && npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector node build/index.js

Configuration for Claude Integration

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "consul-mcp": {
            "command": "node",
            "args": [
                "/ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/PARENT/FOLDER/consul-mcp-server/build/index.js"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Automated Installation via Smithery

To facilitate automated integration with Claude Desktop using Smithery, execute the following command:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @kocierik/consul-mcp-server --client claude

Licensing Stipulations

MIT

The contextual information below is inherited from external sources regarding business management tools and is not directly part of the adapter documentation.

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