We're excited to announce the release of Alibaba Cloud Ops MCP Server v0.9.27, bringing enhanced configuration flexibility and improved deployment automation capabilities.

🚀 What's New

1. Command Line Configuration Injection
   Enhanced CLI Support: Added support for config injection through command line parameters when starting the MCP server
   Improved Flexibility: Streamlined configuration management for different deployment scenarios
   Better Developer Experience: Simplified setup process for various environments
2. Automated Application Deployment
   Auto-Generated Deployment Commands: New application deployment functionality that automatically generates deployment commands
   Enhanced Error Handling: Improved fault tolerance mechanisms for more reliable deployments

🚀 v0.9.1 - Header Credentials Support

We're excited to announce the release of Alibaba Cloud Ops MCP Server v0.9.1, bringing a revolutionary enhancement to authentication flexibility with header-based credentials support that enables multi-tenant scenarios and dynamic credential switching.

✨ What's New

🔐 Dynamic Header Credentials Support

This release introduces game-changing header-based authentication that allows MCP Clients to control credentials for each individual tool call, enabling powerful multi-tenant scenarios and seamless account switching.

🎯 Features:

• Per-Request Credential Control: MCP Clients can specify different credentials for each tool call
• Multi-Tenant Architecture: Support multiple users/accounts through a single MCP Server instance
• Dynamic Account Switching: Switch between different Alibaba Cloud accounts without server restart
• Real-time Credential Management: Use any user's credentials for any tool call instantly

🏢 Multi-Tenant & Dynamic Switching Capabilities

🔄 Dynamic Credential Switching

Each tool call can use completely different credentials, allowing:

• Account A credentials for ECS operations
• Account B credentials for RDS management
• Account C credentials for monitoring data
• All within the same session and server instance

🔧 How to Use Header Credentials

Supported Header Fields:

• x-acs-accesskey-id: Your Alibaba Cloud Access Key ID
• x-acs-accesskey-secret: Your Alibaba Cloud Access Key Secret
• x-acs-security-token: Your Alibaba Cloud Security Token (for STS scenarios)

Client-side (New Feature)

MCP Clients can now choose between:

Option 1: Server Environment Variables (Existing)

# Server started with environment variables
ALIBABA_CLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your_key_id \
ALIBABA_CLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET=your_secret \
alibaba-cloud-ops-mcp-server

Option 2: Client Header Credentials (New)

// MCP Client example
const mcpRequest = {
  headers: {
    'x-acs-accesskey-id': 'your_access_key_id',
    'x-acs-accesskey-secret': 'your_access_key_secret',
    'x-acs-security-token': 'your_security_token' // Optional, for STS
  },
  // ... other MCP request data
};

📦 Installation & Upgrade

# Install the latest version
pip install alibaba-cloud-ops-mcp-server==0.9.1

# Upgrade from previous version
pip install --upgrade alibaba-cloud-ops-mcp-server

🔄 Authentication Methods Comparison

| Method | Scope | Flexibility | Multi-Tenant | Dynamic Switch |
|--------|-------|-------------|--------------|----------------|
| Environment Variables | Server-wide | Static | ❌ | ❌ |
| Header Credentials | Per-request | Dynamic | ✅ | ✅ |

Full Changelog: v0.9.0...v0.9.1

Installation: pip install alibaba-cloud-ops-mcp-server==0.9.1

Upgrade: pip install --upgrade alibaba-cloud-ops-mcp-server

🚀 v0.9.0 - Common API Caller Support

We're excited to announce v0.9.0 with Common API Caller support, enabling universal access to Alibaba Cloud OpenAPI services through 4 standardized tools.

✨ What's New

🔧 Common API Caller Tools

In addition to existing specialized tools, this release adds 4 universal tools that provide access to all OpenAPI endpoints for supported services:

• PromptUnderstanding - Convert user queries into Alibaba Cloud expert suggestions
• ListAPIs - Get API list information by service name
• GetAPIInfo - Get detailed API metadata for specific service and API
• CommonAPICaller - Execute actual API calls with specified parameters

📋 Supported Services for Common API Caller

The Common API Caller supports all OpenAPI endpoints for these services:

| Service | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| ecs | Elastic Compute Service |
| oos | Operations Orchestration Service |
| rds | Relational Database Service |
| vpc | Virtual Private Cloud |
| slb | Server Load Balancer |
| ess | Elastic Scaling |
| ros | Resource Orchestration Service |
| cbn | Cloud Enterprise Network |
| dds | MongoDB Database Service |
| r-kvstore | Cloud Database Tair (Redis-compatible) |

🚀 Quick Start

From Local Development

ALIBABA_CLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<Your AccessKeyId> ALIBABA_CLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET=<Your AccessKeySecret> uv run src/alibaba_cloud_ops_mcp_server/server.py --services "ecs,oos,rds,vpc,slb,ess,ros,cbn,dds,r-kvstore" --transport sse

From Package

ALIBABA_CLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<Your AccessKeyId> ALIBABA_CLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET=<Your AccessKeySecret> uvx alibaba-cloud-ops-mcp-server@latest --services "ecs,oos,rds,vpc,slb,ess,ros,cbn,dds,r-kvstore" --transport sse

🔧 MCP Client Configuration

Add this to your MCP client configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alibaba-cloud-ops-mcp-server": {
      "timeout": 600,
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "alibaba-cloud-ops-mcp-server@latest",
        "--services",
        "ecs,oos,rds,vpc,slb,ess,ros,cbn,dds,r-kvstore"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ALIBABA_CLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_ID": "Your Access Key ID",
        "ALIBABA_CLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET": "Your Access Key SECRET"
      }
    }
  }
}

📦 Installation & Upgrade

pip install alibaba-cloud-ops-mcp-server==0.9.0

🙏 Contributors

Thanks to @zhaoshuaibo-china for implementing the Common API Caller system.

Full Changelog: v0.8.9...v0.9.0

Documentation: README_mcp_args.md

🎉 Alibaba Cloud Ops MCP Server v0.7.2 - Initial Release

We're excited to announce the initial release of Alibaba Cloud Ops MCP Server, a powerful Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables seamless integration with Alibaba Cloud services through AI assistants and tools.

✨ What's New

This is the first official release of the Alibaba Cloud Ops MCP Server, providing comprehensive support for managing and monitoring your Alibaba Cloud infrastructure through natural language interactions.

🚀 Key Features

| Product | Tool | Function | Implematation | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ECS | RunCommand | Run Command | OOS | Done |
| | StartInstances | Start Instances | OOS | Done |
| | StopInstances | Stop Instances | OOS | Done |
| | RebootInstances | Reboot Instances | OOS | Done |
| | DescribeInstances | View Instances | API | Done |
| | DescribeRegions | View Regions | API | Done |
| | DescribeZones | View Zones | API | Done |
| | DescribeAvailableResource | View Resource Inventory | API | Done |
| | DescribeImages | View Images | API | Done |
| | DescribeSecurityGroups | View Security Groups | API | Done |
| | RunInstances | Create Instances | OOS | Done |
| | DeleteInstances | Delete Instances | API | Done |
| | ResetPassword | Modify Password | OOS | Done |
| | ReplaceSystemDisk | Replace Operating System | OOS | Done |
| VPC | DescribeVpcs | View VPCs | API | Done |
| | DescribeVSwitches | View VSwitches | API | Done |
| CloudMonitor | GetCpuUsageData | Get CPU Usage Data for ECS Instances | API | Done |
| | GetCpuLoadavgData | Get CPU One-Minute Average Load Metric Data | API | Done |
| | GetCpuloadavg5mData | Get CPU Five-Minute Average Load Metric Data | API | Done |
| | GetCpuloadavg15mData | Get CPU Fifteen-Minute Average Load Metric Data | API | Done |
| | GetMemUsedData | Get Memory Usage Metric Data | API | Done |
| | GetMemUsageData | Get Memory Utilization Metric Data | API | Done |
| | GetDiskUsageData | Get Disk Utilization Metric Data | API | Done |
| | GetDiskTotalData | Get Total Disk Partition Capacity Metric Data | API | Done |
| | GetDiskUsedData | Get Disk Partition Usage Metric Data | API | Done |

📦 Installation

pip install alibaba-cloud-ops-mcp-server

🚀 Quick Start

From Local Development Environment

ALIBABA_CLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<Your AccessKeyId> ALIBABA_CLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET=<Your AccessKeySecret> uv run src/alibaba_cloud_ops_mcp_server/server.py --transport sse

From Package

ALIBABA_CLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<Your AccessKeyId> ALIBABA_CLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET=<Your AccessKeySecret> uvx alibaba-cloud-ops-mcp-server@latest --transport sse

📋 Requirements

• Python 3.11 or higher
• Valid Alibaba Cloud credentials (AccessKey ID and Secret)

📚 Documentation

• English documentation: README.md
• 中文文档: README_zh.md

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

🔮 What's Next

This initial release establishes the foundation for Alibaba Cloud MCP integration. Future releases will expand service support, add more advanced features, and improve performance.