Beyond the Core MCP Server, IBM Cloud also provides MCP servers for Cloud Internet Services (DNS, GLB, WAF, DDoS, and CDN), logs, streams, Kubernetes and OpenShift, code monitoring, object storage, serverless services, VPC, and other IBM Cloud services.
Documentation is thorough, with solid examples, and using MCP should feel natural to those already familiar with IBM’s dense CLI and API commands. However, most actions available through IBM Cloud MCP servers are read-only. For the time being, IBM’s MCP servers serve mainly as an experimental, information-gathering interface.
The cloud is your oyster
MCP has gained increasing enterprise traction in recent months, aligning with the emergence of hyperscaler support for the protocol. Used in a cloud operational context, MCP could eliminate tedious tasks like configuring fields in human-facing GUIs or manually searching through API references and product documentation.
