ai-presentations/01-claude-ocp/presentation.md

MCP in Practice

What is MCP?

• Open Standard

• Created by Anthropic (Creators of Claude) in 2024

• Allows LLMs to connect to data and systems

• Enables agentic workflows

MCP gives tools to AI

Why MCP?

Without MCP

sequenceDiagram
    You->>LLM: I'm 10 minutes away from a demo, getting this error        
    LLM->>You: Try this...
    You->>LLM: That didn't work! New error!
	LLM->>You: Gather this info..
	You->>LLM: Here it is...
	LLM->>You: Try this...
	loop 
    You->>LLM:😤
	LLM->>You:😭
    end

Why MCP?

With MCP...

sequenceDiagram
    You->>LLM: I'm 10 minutes away from a demo, getting this error        
    LLM->>You: Let me check that..
    LLM->>OCP: Get pod list
    LLM->>OCP: Get pod logs
    LLM->>ArgoCD: Get GitOps application
	LLM->>Git: Get Git repo
    LLM->>LLM: Plan fix
	LLM->>You: Here is the plan. Requesting Approval
	You->>LLM: Approved
    LLM->>Git: Push fix to Git
    LLM->>OCP: Verify change applied
	LLM->>You: Applied Succesfully

Tools for the demo

• openshift-mcp-server - Kubernetes/OpenShift API operations

• gitea-mcp-server - Git repository operations

• argocd-mcp-server - ArgoCD (aka Openshift GitOps) application management

Prompt Engineering

Intent vs. Instruction

Ambiguity is the enemy of automation. If you don’t define ‘safe’… the AI will.

DEMO

Have fun exploring the world of MCP!

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