Ansible & OpenShift Automation

Setup of the Environment for the AI Powered Ansible & OpenShift Automation with Model Context Protocols (MCP) Servers

This guide will walk you through setting up the MCP Servers + Claude Desktop portions of the demo that focused on using Claude Desktop to interact with your Ansible Automation Platform and OpenShift Cluster environments.

Ensure you have the following installed.

- An Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) environment
- An OpenShift Cluster with OpenShift Virtualization
- Claude Desktopinstalled on your laptop (Pro Plan required for best results)
- Python 3.10 or higher installed on your laptop
- Ensure you are authenticated with your OpenShift cluster (e.g. exporting kubeconfig)

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Installjbangwhich will be used when using the Kubernetes MCP Server. (jbang needs to be installed globally, recommend using the homebrew install pattern. If you install it locally (the curl pattern), Claude won't be able to access it).

# Create a new directory for our project uv init ansible cd ansible # Create virtual environment and activate it uv venv source .venv/bin/activate # Install dependencies uv add "mcp[cli]" httpx # Create our server file touch ansible.py