Northflank MCP. Orchestrate Cloud Deployment from Conversation
Northflank MCP lets you manage your entire developer cloud infrastructure directly through conversation. Orchestrate microservices, deploy new code builds, audit complex background jobs, and provision or delete entire project ecosystems without touching a dashboard or running a single CLI command.
Give Claude and any AI agent real-world access
Provision new isolated project spaces or permanently tear down existing microservice ecosystems.
Retrieve the precise resource allocation and structural details for any running application service.
Manually trigger fresh continuous integration builds to update production assets or verify recent code merges.
Gracefully cycle container replicas for a specific service, clearing accumulated transient memory and restoring normal performance timing.
List and inspect isolated batch or cron jobs to track periodic tasks like heavy database aggregations.
Access metadata for logical secret groups, confirming environment variable mappings across your cloud boundaries.
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Use these tools to programmatically list projects, deploy microservices, check resource metadata, and audit background jobs across your developer cloud environment.
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Start using Northflank (Developer Cloud & Orchestration) MCPCreate Project
Creates a completely new, isolated Northflank Project space for development work.
Delete Project
Permanently removes an entire project boundary and all associated microservices and...
Get Project
Retrieves detailed regional metadata about a specific Northflank Project, including...
Get Service
Fetches the exact structural anatomy and scaling needs of a single running...
List Jobs
Lists all isolated batch and cron jobs that run within a specific project.
List Projects
Fetches the mandatory list of top-level organizational Project IDs.
List Secrets
Lists all secret group dictionaries, showing environment variables mapped into running services or jobs.
List Services
Retrieves a list of explicit application or microservice instances inside a project.
Restart Service
Gracefully cycles the container replicas for a specific service to clear transient...
Trigger Build
Sends a command to Northflank builders to compile and deploy the latest source code.
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The Pain of Jumping Between Dashboards
Today, changing a simple microservice configuration means logging into the Northflank console. You navigate to the Project Overview, click into Services, then find the specific instance you need. If you want to check its resource limits or see if it's connected to a secret vault, you usually have to run two or three different reports and copy-paste the data yourself.
With this MCP, your agent handles that whole sequence in one chat window. You don't navigate anywhere; you just ask for the information—like checking its resource allocation—and get the clean, actionable answer immediately.
Northflank (Developer Cloud & Orchestration) MCP
The most time sink is managing the full deployment lifecycle. You have to remember to check if a project needs resources provisioned, list all dependent services, and then manually run the build command before you even consider restarting anything.
Now, you simply tell your agent what you want done—for example, 'Deploy the latest version of payment processor.' The MCP sequences `list_services`, calls `trigger_build`, and finally runs `restart_service` automatically. It just works.
What Northflank MCP does for your AI
Control your enterprise development platform using natural language. This connection gives your agent full oversight of your microservice orchestration and continuous deployment pipelines across multiple cloud regions. You can list every managed project and get detailed metadata, checking things like which geographic data centers (AWS, GCP, Azure) are connected. Need to restart a service? Simply ask the agent to cycle container replicas for specific applications.
The MCP also handles operational tasks like listing isolated batch jobs or auditing secret groups—verifying environment variables across different virtual private cloud boundaries. When you connect this via Vinkius, your AI client treats Northflank as just another tool in its belt, letting you manage complex infrastructure from anywhere.
019d75df-75ba-730e-afbe-532d05469f81 How to set up Northflank MCP
The bottom line is you can use natural conversation to execute complex DevOps operations that used to require multiple specialized dashboards and terminal commands.
Subscribe to this MCP on Vinkius and provide the required Northflank API Token.
Connect your preferred AI client (like Cursor or Claude) to the catalog, granting it access to the tool.
Ask your agent a natural language question—for example, 'List all active microservices in Project X'—and let it perform the necessary cloud actions.
Who uses Northflank MCP
This MCP is for the Platform Engineer who gets frustrated having to jump between a dozen different cloud provider consoles just to verify if a deployment worked. It's also for the Senior Backend Developer who needs quick, accurate data on resource limits without bothering an Ops team.
Uses this MCP to monitor microservice health across multiple regions and trigger production deployments using simple conversation prompts.
Verifies service resource allocations, checks the status of scheduled background jobs, and audits secret vault mappings directly from their development terminal.
Manages organizational project boundaries, tears down old microservice ecosystems, and verifies secure credential mappings across different environments efficiently.
Benefits of connecting Northflank MCP
Instant Service Audit: Instead of manually checking dashboards, ask your agent to use get_service to instantly verify a service’s structural anatomy and current resource boundaries.
Rapid Deployments: When code changes, you don't navigate to the CI/CD dashboard. Just prompt your agent to trigger_build, starting the deployment immediately.
Clean Up Effortlessly: Need to decommission an old testing environment? Use delete_project to permanently tear down a project and all its microservices in one command.
Proactive Maintenance: Don't wait for failure. Tell your agent to use restart_service on critical applications to cycle replicas and clear memory buildup proactively.
Security Visibility: Quickly verify credentials by asking the agent to use list_secrets, checking environment variable mappings across all connected VPC boundaries.
Full Oversight: Need a quick inventory? Use list_projects or list_services to get an immediate, comprehensive list of every resource in your account.
Northflank MCP use cases
Investigating Production Outages
A payment service is running slow. Instead of logging into three different consoles, the engineer asks their agent to get_service for that specific application. The agent returns immediate data on CPU throttling and RAM allocation boundaries, pointing directly to the resource bottleneck.
Preparing a New Team Environment
A new team needs a sandbox environment. Instead of manually setting up networking rules, the platform lead asks the agent to create_project. The system provisions an isolated project space instantly, ready for development.
Auditing Security Changes
Before migrating data, the security team needs to confirm where database connection strings are used. They ask the agent to use list_secrets and get a map of all environment variable types across different operational zones.
Verifying Scheduled Tasks
A nightly report is failing, but nobody knows which cron job handles it. The developer asks the agent to list_jobs, retrieving a list of isolated batch processes and confirming the exact scheduled task that needs fixing.
Northflank MCP tradeoffs
What to watch out for, and the recommended way to handle each one.
Over-reliance on Manual Dashboards
Opening 12 different tabs, navigating to 'Services', then clicking through filters to find a single microservice's resource allocation.
Ask your agent to get_service directly. It retrieves the exact structural anatomy and necessary metadata in one step.
Misunderstanding Project Scope
Trying to delete a service without first confirming if it's connected to vital secrets or background jobs.
First, use list_secrets to check the dependencies, then confirm with get_project before running delete_project. Always check scope.
Ignoring Deployment Triggers
Assuming that simply pushing code to GitHub automatically deploys it to production and forgetting to restart containers.
After merging, you must explicitly tell your agent to trigger_build first, then use restart_service on the target application.
When to use Northflank MCP
Use this MCP if your job involves orchestrating complex, multi-stage deployments across several cloud boundaries. Specifically, if you need to check resource allocations (get_service), manage entire project lifecycles (create_project/delete_project), or audit credentials and jobs (list_secrets/list_jobs). Don't use this if you only need to read simple data points; for instance, if you just want a list of all user names without knowing their service status, that’s too narrow. This MCP is for the full lifecycle control panel—the place where infrastructure orchestration happens.
Frequently asked questions about Northflank MCP
How do I list all services using Northflank (Developer Cloud & Orchestration) MCP? +
You use the list_services tool. This fetches a complete roster of every explicit application or microservice instance running inside your current project.
What is the difference between `get_project` and `list_projects` in Northflank (Developer Cloud & Orchestration) MCP? +
list_projects gives you a list of all top-level organizational Project IDs. get_project allows you to dive deep into one specific project ID to retrieve its detailed regional metadata.
Can I restart my service using Northflank (Developer Cloud & Orchestration) MCP? +
Yes, you use the restart_service tool. This command gracefully cycles container replicas for a specific application, clearing out any transient memory buildup.
I need to find all my secrets, which tool should I use in Northflank (Developer Cloud & Orchestration) MCP? +
Use list_secrets. This lists all secret group dictionaries and shows you exactly which environment variables are mapped into your running services or jobs.
What if I want to tear down an entire project? Which tool handles that in Northflank (Developer Cloud & Orchestration) MCP? +
Use the delete_project tool. This permanently removes a Project and all its cascading microservices, effectively cleaning up the entire ecosystem.