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->>Git: Push fix to Git
    LLM->>OCP: Verify change applied
	LLM->>You: The issue was X. I resolved by doing Y

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

• minio-mcp-server - S3-Compatible Object storage operations

DEMO

Have fun exploring the world of MCP!

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