Is Nerdctl Mcp Server safe to use?

Nerdctl Mcp Server has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under Apache-2.0.

How do I install Nerdctl Mcp Server?

Nerdctl Mcp Server can be installed by cloning its GitHub repository and following the setup instructions in the README.

What can Nerdctl Mcp Server do?

Nerdctl Mcp Server provides 8 tools: nerdctl_ps, nerdctl_images, nerdctl_inspect, nerdctl_logs, nerdctl_run and 3 more. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.

What AI clients work with Nerdctl Mcp Server?

Nerdctl Mcp Server is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse transport.

Is Nerdctl Mcp Server actively maintained?

Nerdctl Mcp Server is less actively maintained — last commit was 292 days ago.

Nerdctl Mcp Server

Name: Nerdctl Mcp Server
Author: noelshebert

by noelshebert

MCP Server for Nerdctl coded in Go

8 tools GitHub

No known CVEs

Apache-2.0 license

Stale

Last commit 292d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse

8 tools · ~419 tok

Grade A · 0.2% of 200K ctx

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DevOps

Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nerdctl-mcp-server": {
      "command": "<see-readme>",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

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What Nerdctl Mcp Server does

nerdctl-mcp-server is a fork of podman-mcp-server (https://github.com/manusa/podman-mcp-server) with all the non-Go stuff stripped away. To be fair, most of the work put into this fork has been to find/replace any mention of Podman/Docker with Nerdctl. As Nerdctl like Podman has a command-line API copied from the Docker CLI, this was not difficult. There was some cleanup of syntax of inline descriptions to make sense, and removal of comments referring to Podman documentation. Lastly, code hygi

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Is Nerdctl Mcp Server safe to use?: Nerdctl Mcp Server has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under Apache-2.0.
How do I install Nerdctl Mcp Server?: Nerdctl Mcp Server can be installed by cloning its GitHub repository and following the setup instructions in the README.
What can Nerdctl Mcp Server do?: Nerdctl Mcp Server provides 8 tools: nerdctl_ps, nerdctl_images, nerdctl_inspect, nerdctl_logs, nerdctl_run and 3 more. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Nerdctl Mcp Server?: Nerdctl Mcp Server is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse transport.
Is Nerdctl Mcp Server actively maintained?: Nerdctl Mcp Server is less actively maintained — last commit was 292 days ago.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nerdctl-mcp-server": {
      "command": "<see-readme>",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

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What Nerdctl Mcp Server does

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nerdctl-mcp-server

MCP Server for Nerdctl coded in Go

Why Nerdctl?

Well, the answer is historical. I started using Nerdctl a number of years ago as a rootless alternative to Docker (which was not ready at the time) and Podman at that time was flakey. In addition, the most current version of Podman was not readily available on Ubuntu, my distribution of choice.

Now, Docker has a working rootless mode. I still don't use it because I just don't. I do use Podman most of the time, however I still use Nerdctl on my main server and it's fun just to be able to say "I use nerdctl, by-the-way!" ;-)

I am actively learning all things AI, especially integrating it into my workflows. Most AI assistive tools make use of MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and a Podman server has already done by Marc Nuri (manusa). Why not Nerdctl?

Prerequisites

At its heart, nerdctl-mcp-server is essentially a command wrapper around a selected set of nerdctl commands. In order for the MCP server to be useful, nerdctl must be already installed on the machine running the server. You should also have Go installed. Lastly, it is necessary to have some variation of make installed. To be honest, I do not use MacOS (darwin), so I am expecting that it is reasonably close to Linux. I proactively avoid Windows in all its forms so make of that what you will.

Building and installing nerdctl-mcp-server

Building the binary for nerdctl-mcp-server is straight forward. Just use the included Makefile. If unsure just:

make help

Building for your specific platform should be as simple as:

make build

If still unsure, there is always:

make build-all-platforms

Using the multi-platform capability of Go, it will build binaries for arm64/amd64 Linux, arm64/amd64 MacOS (darwin) and arm64/amd65 Windows.

After the binary has been build, simply copy the binary to a folder/directory that is in your $PATH.

Trying out nerdctl-mcp-server

A very handy tool that every developer of, or user of MCP Servers should be aware of is mcp-inspector. https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector.

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Why this score

Five weighted categories — click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

64/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−36

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

No package registry to scan.

Inventory

Tools (8)

Click any tool to inspect its schema.

~419 tokens total

Community

Reviews

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Have you used this server?

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How easy was setup?Did it work reliably?How was the documentation?

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Nerdctl Mcp Server safe to use?: Nerdctl Mcp Server has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under Apache-2.0.
How do I install Nerdctl Mcp Server?: Nerdctl Mcp Server can be installed by cloning its GitHub repository and following the setup instructions in the README.
What can Nerdctl Mcp Server do?: Nerdctl Mcp Server provides 8 tools: nerdctl_ps, nerdctl_images, nerdctl_inspect, nerdctl_logs, nerdctl_run and 3 more. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Nerdctl Mcp Server?: Nerdctl Mcp Server is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse transport.
Is Nerdctl Mcp Server actively maintained?: Nerdctl Mcp Server is less actively maintained — last commit was 292 days ago.