Conversational server operation and maintenance is here! 1Panel MCP allows you to communicate directly with the server|MCP Collection

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Jasper Cole
Updated on:July-08th-2025
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**Future new operation and maintenance experience, you can manage the server with just your mouth! **
Core content:
1. 1Panel MCP Server makes server operation as simple as speaking
2. AI-driven operation and maintenance command operation, no need to remember complex commands
3. Integrated into 1Panel, easy deployment and perfect combination of server management

Yang Fangxian
Founder of 53AI/Most Valuable Expert of Tencent Cloud (TVP)

This is what future operations and maintenance should look like.

Just say to the computer: "Help me deploy a WordPress website", and the server will automatically pull the image, deploy the database, and configure the SSL certificate domain name.

Now with MCP, you can operate the server just by talking, and it can be done immediately!

Yesterday, the 1Panel open source project team released a new tool: 1Panel MCP Server.

The core of 1Panel MCP Server is to provide "command as a service" .

It used to take at least half an hour to configure a complete LNMP environment, but now it can be done in just three minutes with just one sentence.

1Panel MCP is developed based on the "Model Context Protocol", which is essentially an instruction operation for AI-driven operation and maintenance.

Use natural language to give instructions to the server, such as "create a MySQL database" or "deploy Nginx service", and the AI ​​system will automatically understand and execute the corresponding operations.

There is no need to remember complicated commands or get lost in complex interfaces. Everything becomes as natural as speaking.

1Panel itself is an excellent open source server operation panel . It integrates various one-click operation and maintenance integrated operations. Now with the support of AI, MCP as the middle layer is more seamlessly integrated with server management.

The source code is hosted on GitHub (1Panel-dev/mcp-1panel) and is free for anyone to use, customize, and improve.

The installation process is relatively simple and only requires a few commands to deploy 1Panel MCP into an existing 1Panel environment.

Get 1Panel access token

1. Log in to 1Panel backend, select "Panel Settings" → "API Interface", and generate an access token .

2. Select a transmission mode, any third-party MCP client configuration as follows: MCP configuration file parsing. But to be honest, the configuration file is still one of the most failed designs of MCP!

{ "mcpServers": { "mcp-1panel": { "command": "mcp-1panel", "env": { "PANEL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your_token", "PANEL_HOST": "http://localhost:8080" } } } }

After the configuration is complete, you can start "talking" to the server and experience the new operation and maintenance method in the AI ​​era.

Currently supported operations are as follows:

Perhaps in the near future, the daily work of DevOps engineers will change from writing scripts to designing conversation strategies with AI , and server management will be as simple and natural as talking to an assistant.

The era of AI conversational operation and maintenance has arrived, are you ready?