MCPRemoteProxy is the Schema for the mcpremoteproxies API
It enables proxying remote MCP servers with authentication, authorization, audit logging, and tool filtering
APIVersion defines the versioned schema of this representation of an object. Servers should convert recognized schemas to the latest internal value, and may reject unrecognized values. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#resources
Kind is a string value representing the REST resource this object represents. Servers may infer this from the endpoint the client submits requests to. Cannot be updated. In CamelCase. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#types-kinds
Standard object's metadata. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#metadata
Annotations is an unstructured key value map stored with a resource that may be set by external tools to store and retrieve arbitrary metadata. They are not queryable and should be preserved when modifying objects. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/annotations
Each additional property must conform to the following schema
Type: stringCreationTimestamp is a timestamp representing the server time when this object was created. It is not guaranteed to be set in happens-before order across separate operations. Clients may not set this value. It is represented in RFC3339 form and is in UTC.
Populated by the system. Read-only. Null for lists. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#metadata
Number of seconds allowed for this object to gracefully terminate before it will be removed from the system. Only set when deletionTimestamp is also set. May only be shortened. Read-only.
DeletionTimestamp is RFC 3339 date and time at which this resource will be deleted. This field is set by the server when a graceful deletion is requested by the user, and is not directly settable by a client. The resource is expected to be deleted (no longer visible from resource lists, and not reachable by name) after the time in this field, once the finalizers list is empty. As long as the finalizers list contains items, deletion is blocked. Once the deletionTimestamp is set, this value may not be unset or be set further into the future, although it may be shortened or the resource may be deleted prior to this time. For example, a user may request that a pod is deleted in 30 seconds. The Kubelet will react by sending a graceful termination signal to the containers in the pod. After that 30 seconds, the Kubelet will send a hard termination signal (SIGKILL) to the container and after cleanup, remove the pod from the API. In the presence of network partitions, this object may still exist after this timestamp, until an administrator or automated process can determine the resource is fully terminated. If not set, graceful deletion of the object has not been requested.
Populated by the system when a graceful deletion is requested. Read-only. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#metadata
Must be empty before the object is deleted from the registry. Each entry is an identifier for the responsible component that will remove the entry from the list. If the deletionTimestamp of the object is non-nil, entries in this list can only be removed. Finalizers may be processed and removed in any order. Order is NOT enforced because it introduces significant risk of stuck finalizers. finalizers is a shared field, any actor with permission can reorder it. If the finalizer list is processed in order, then this can lead to a situation in which the component responsible for the first finalizer in the list is waiting for a signal (field value, external system, or other) produced by a component responsible for a finalizer later in the list, resulting in a deadlock. Without enforced ordering finalizers are free to order amongst themselves and are not vulnerable to ordering changes in the list.
GenerateName is an optional prefix, used by the server, to generate a unique name ONLY IF the Name field has not been provided. If this field is used, the name returned to the client will be different than the name passed. This value will also be combined with a unique suffix. The provided value has the same validation rules as the Name field, and may be truncated by the length of the suffix required to make the value unique on the server.
If this field is specified and the generated name exists, the server will return a 409.
Applied only if Name is not specified. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#idempotency
A sequence number representing a specific generation of the desired state. Populated by the system. Read-only.
Map of string keys and values that can be used to organize and categorize (scope and select) objects. May match selectors of replication controllers and services. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/labels
Each additional property must conform to the following schema
Type: stringManagedFields maps workflow-id and version to the set of fields that are managed by that workflow. This is mostly for internal housekeeping, and users typically shouldn't need to set or understand this field. A workflow can be the user's name, a controller's name, or the name of a specific apply path like "ci-cd". The set of fields is always in the version that the workflow used when modifying the object.
No Additional ItemsManagedFieldsEntry is a workflow-id, a FieldSet and the group version of the resource that the fieldset applies to.
APIVersion defines the version of this resource that this field set applies to. The format is "group/version" just like the top-level APIVersion field. It is necessary to track the version of a field set because it cannot be automatically converted.
FieldsType is the discriminator for the different fields format and version. There is currently only one possible value: "FieldsV1"
FieldsV1 holds the first JSON version format as described in the "FieldsV1" type.
Manager is an identifier of the workflow managing these fields.
Operation is the type of operation which lead to this ManagedFieldsEntry being created. The only valid values for this field are 'Apply' and 'Update'.
Subresource is the name of the subresource used to update that object, or empty string if the object was updated through the main resource. The value of this field is used to distinguish between managers, even if they share the same name. For example, a status update will be distinct from a regular update using the same manager name. Note that the APIVersion field is not related to the Subresource field and it always corresponds to the version of the main resource.
Time is the timestamp of when the ManagedFields entry was added. The timestamp will also be updated if a field is added, the manager changes any of the owned fields value or removes a field. The timestamp does not update when a field is removed from the entry because another manager took it over.
Same definition as creationTimestampName must be unique within a namespace. Is required when creating resources, although some resources may allow a client to request the generation of an appropriate name automatically. Name is primarily intended for creation idempotence and configuration definition. Cannot be updated. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/names#names
Namespace defines the space within which each name must be unique. An empty namespace is equivalent to the "default" namespace, but "default" is the canonical representation. Not all objects are required to be scoped to a namespace - the value of this field for those objects will be empty.
Must be a DNS_LABEL. Cannot be updated. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/namespaces
List of objects depended by this object. If ALL objects in the list have been deleted, this object will be garbage collected. If this object is managed by a controller, then an entry in this list will point to this controller, with the controller field set to true. There cannot be more than one managing controller.
No Additional ItemsOwnerReference contains enough information to let you identify an owning object. An owning object must be in the same namespace as the dependent, or be cluster-scoped, so there is no namespace field.
API version of the referent.
If true, AND if the owner has the "foregroundDeletion" finalizer, then the owner cannot be deleted from the key-value store until this reference is removed. See https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/architecture/garbage-collection/#foreground-deletion for how the garbage collector interacts with this field and enforces the foreground deletion. Defaults to false. To set this field, a user needs "delete" permission of the owner, otherwise 422 (Unprocessable Entity) will be returned.
If true, this reference points to the managing controller.
Kind of the referent. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#types-kinds
Name of the referent. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/names#names
UID of the referent. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/names#uids
An opaque value that represents the internal version of this object that can be used by clients to determine when objects have changed. May be used for optimistic concurrency, change detection, and the watch operation on a resource or set of resources. Clients must treat these values as opaque and passed unmodified back to the server. They may only be valid for a particular resource or set of resources.
Populated by the system. Read-only. Value must be treated as opaque by clients and . More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#concurrency-control-and-consistency
Deprecated: selfLink is a legacy read-only field that is no longer populated by the system.
UID is the unique in time and space value for this object. It is typically generated by the server on successful creation of a resource and is not allowed to change on PUT operations.
Populated by the system. Read-only. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/names#uids
MCPRemoteProxySpec defines the desired state of MCPRemoteProxy
Audit defines audit logging configuration for the proxy
Enabled controls whether audit logging is enabled
When true, enables audit logging with default configuration
AuthServerRef optionally references a resource that configures an embedded
OAuth 2.0/OIDC authorization server to authenticate MCP clients.
Currently the only supported kind is MCPExternalAuthConfig (type: embeddedAuthServer).
Kind identifies the type of the referenced resource.
Name is the name of the referenced resource in the same namespace.
Must be at least 1 characters long
AuthzConfig defines authorization policy configuration for the proxy.
AuthzConfig and AuthzConfigRef are mutually exclusive.
ConfigMap references a ConfigMap containing authorization configuration
Only used when Type is "configMap"
Key is the key in the ConfigMap that contains the authorization configuration
Name is the name of the ConfigMap
GroupClaimName is the JWT claim key that contains group membership for the
principal. When set, takes priority over the well-known defaults
("groups", "roles", "cognito:groups"). Use this for IDPs that place
groups under a URI-style claim (e.g. "https://example.com/groups"). When
Type is "configMap", a groupclaimname entry in the referenced ConfigMap
is overridden by this field if both are set.
Must be at most 253 characters long
GroupEntityType is the Cedar entity type name used for principal parent
UIDs synthesised from JWT group/role claims. Defaults to "THVGroup" when
empty. Must match the entity type used in the static entity store for
transitive in checks (e.g. ClaimGroup → PlatformRole) to resolve.
Namespaced names (Foo::Bar) are not yet supported. When Type is
"configMap", a groupentitytype entry in the referenced ConfigMap is
overridden by this field if both are set.
^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*$
Must be at most 63 characters long
Inline contains direct authorization configuration
Only used when Type is "inline"
EntitiesJSON is a JSON string representing Cedar entities. Required when
transitive policies (e.g. ClaimGroup → PlatformRole) need a static
entity store; defaults to "[]".
Policies is a list of Cedar policy strings
Must contain a minimum of 1 items
PrimaryUpstreamProvider names the upstream IDP whose access token's
claims Cedar should evaluate.
Deprecated: on VirtualMCPServer this field has moved to
spec.authServerConfig.primaryUpstreamProvider. The old location is
still read for one release for backward compatibility; the
VirtualMCPServer controller emits an AuthzPrimaryUpstreamProviderDeprecated
Warning event whenever it is consumed, and removal is planned for the
release after the deprecation cycle.
On MCPServer and MCPRemoteProxy this field has always been a structural
no-op (those CRDs do not run an embedded auth server). Setting it
continues to surface the AuthzPrimaryUpstreamProviderIgnored advisory
condition; the deprecation does not change that behaviour.
^[a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?$
Must be at least 1 characters long
Must be at most 63 characters long
RoleClaimName is the JWT claim key that contains role membership for the
principal. When set, the claim is extracted separately from GroupClaimName
and both are mapped to the configured GroupEntityType. When Type is
"configMap", a roleclaimname entry in the referenced ConfigMap is
overridden by this field if both are set.
Must be at most 253 characters long
Type is the type of authorization configuration
AuthzConfigRef references a shared MCPAuthzConfig resource for authorization.
The referenced MCPAuthzConfig must exist in the same namespace as this MCPRemoteProxy.
Mutually exclusive with authzConfig.
Name is the name of the MCPAuthzConfig resource in the same namespace.
Must be at least 1 characters long
EndpointPrefix is the path prefix to prepend to SSE endpoint URLs.
This is used to handle path-based ingress routing scenarios where the ingress
strips a path prefix before forwarding to the backend.
ExternalAuthConfigRef references a MCPExternalAuthConfig resource for token exchange.
When specified, the proxy will exchange validated incoming tokens for remote service tokens.
The referenced MCPExternalAuthConfig must exist in the same namespace as this MCPRemoteProxy.
Name is the name of the MCPExternalAuthConfig resource
GroupRef references the MCPGroup this proxy belongs to.
The referenced MCPGroup must be in the same namespace.
Name is the name of the MCPGroup resource in the same namespace
Must be at least 1 characters long
HeaderForward configures headers to inject into requests to the remote MCP server.
Use this to add custom headers like X-Tenant-ID or correlation IDs.
AddHeadersFromSecret references Kubernetes Secrets for sensitive header values.
No Additional ItemsHeaderFromSecret defines a header whose value comes from a Kubernetes Secret.
HeaderName is the HTTP header name (e.g., "X-API-Key")
Must be at least 1 characters long
Must be at most 255 characters long
ValueSecretRef references the Secret and key containing the header value
Key is the key within the secret
Name is the name of the secret
AddPlaintextHeaders is a map of header names to literal values to inject into requests.
WARNING: Values are stored in plaintext and visible via kubectl commands.
Use addHeadersFromSecret for sensitive data like API keys or tokens.
Each additional property must conform to the following schema
Type: stringOIDCConfigRef references a shared MCPOIDCConfig resource for OIDC authentication.
The referenced MCPOIDCConfig must exist in the same namespace as this MCPRemoteProxy.
Per-server overrides (audience, scopes) are specified here; shared provider config
lives in the MCPOIDCConfig resource.
SECURITY: if this field is omitted and no other authentication source is configured,
the proxy runs UNAUTHENTICATED. It accepts every request that can reach its port and
forwards it to the remote MCP server under a synthetic local-user identity, with no
token or credential check. Set this field to enforce identity-based access control
per request.
Audience is the expected audience for token validation.
This MUST be unique per server to prevent token replay attacks.
Must be at least 1 characters long
Name is the name of the MCPOIDCConfig resource
Must be at least 1 characters long
ResourceURL is the public URL for OAuth protected resource metadata (RFC 9728).
When the server is exposed via Ingress or gateway, set this to the external
URL that MCP clients connect to. If not specified, defaults to the internal
Kubernetes service URL.
Scopes is the list of OAuth scopes to advertise in the well-known endpoint (RFC 9728).
If empty, defaults to ["openid"].
PodTemplateSpec defines the pod template to use for the MCPRemoteProxy
This allows for customizing the pod configuration beyond what is provided by the other fields.
Note that to modify the specific container the remote proxy runs in, you must specify
the toolhive container name in the PodTemplateSpec.
This field accepts a PodTemplateSpec object as JSON/YAML.
ProxyPort is the port to expose the MCP proxy on
Value must be greater or equal to 1 and lesser or equal to 65535
RemoteURL is the URL of the remote MCP server to proxy
Must match regular expression:^https?://
Replicas is the desired number of proxy pod replicas.
MCPRemoteProxy creates a single Deployment for the proxy process, so there
is only one replicas field (mirrors VirtualMCPServer.spec.replicas).
When nil, the operator does not set Deployment.Spec.Replicas, leaving replica
management to an HPA or other external controller.
When set above 1, also configure sessionStorage with the redis provider and
sessionAffinity: "None" so sessions resolve across replicas; otherwise a
SessionStorageWarning condition is surfaced on the resource status.
Value must be greater or equal to 0
ResourceOverrides allows overriding annotations and labels for resources created by the operator
ProxyDeployment defines overrides for the Proxy Deployment resource (toolhive proxy)
Annotations to add or override on the resource
Each additional property must conform to the following schema
Type: stringEnv are environment variables to set in the proxy container (thv run process)
These affect the toolhive proxy itself, not the MCP server it manages
Use TOOLHIVE_DEBUG=true to enable debug logging in the proxy
EnvVar represents an environment variable in a container
Name of the environment variable
Value of the environment variable
ImagePullSecrets allows specifying image pull secrets for the proxy runner
These are applied to both the Deployment and the ServiceAccount
LocalObjectReference contains enough information to let you locate the
referenced object inside the same namespace.
Labels to add or override on the resource
Each additional property must conform to the following schema
Type: stringResourceMetadataOverrides defines metadata overrides for a resource
Annotations to add or override on the resource
Each additional property must conform to the following schema
Type: stringLabels to add or override on the resource
Each additional property must conform to the following schema
Type: stringProxyService defines overrides for the Proxy Service resource (points to the proxy deployment)
Annotations to add or override on the resource
Each additional property must conform to the following schema
Type: stringLabels to add or override on the resource
Each additional property must conform to the following schema
Type: stringResources defines the resource requirements for the proxy container
Limits describes the maximum amount of compute resources allowed
CPU is the CPU limit in cores (e.g., "500m" for 0.5 cores)
Memory is the memory limit in bytes (e.g., "64Mi" for 64 megabytes)
Requests describes the minimum amount of compute resources required
CPU is the CPU limit in cores (e.g., "500m" for 0.5 cores)
Memory is the memory limit in bytes (e.g., "64Mi" for 64 megabytes)
ServiceAccount is the name of an already existing service account to use by the proxy.
If not specified, a ServiceAccount will be created automatically and used by the proxy.
SessionAffinity controls whether the Service routes repeated client connections to the same pod.
MCP protocols (SSE, streamable-http) are stateful, so ClientIP is the default.
Set to "None" for stateless servers or when using an external load balancer with its own affinity.
Interaction with sessionStorage: when running multiple replicas with
sessionStorage.provider "redis", set this to "None" so requests are
distributed across replicas and sessions resolve via the shared store.
Conversely, "None" without Redis-backed sessionStorage breaks session
continuity — any request landing on a different pod fails with
"Session not found".
SessionStorage configures session storage for stateful horizontal scaling.
When nil, no session storage is configured and the proxy falls back to
pod-local in-memory session state — incompatible with multi-replica
deployments behind load balancers that don't preserve client-IP affinity
(e.g. AWS ALB across multiple AZs).
The transparent proxy validates Mcp-Session-Id against this store on
every non-initialize request (see pkg/transport/proxy/transparent/
transparent_proxy.go) and rewrites client-facing session IDs to backend
session IDs using session metadata. Both lookups require shared state
across replicas.
When using the Redis provider, also set sessionAffinity to "None" so the
Service routes requests round-robin and all replicas rely on the shared
session store rather than pod-local state.
Mirrors MCPServer.spec.sessionStorage and VirtualMCPServer.spec.sessionStorage.
Address is the Redis server address (required when provider is redis)
Must be at least 1 characters long
DB is the Redis database number
Value must be greater or equal to 0
KeyPrefix is an optional prefix for all Redis keys used by ToolHive
PasswordRef is a reference to a Secret key containing the Redis password
Key is the key within the secret
Name is the name of the secret
Provider is the session storage backend type
TelemetryConfigRef references an MCPTelemetryConfig resource for shared telemetry configuration.
The referenced MCPTelemetryConfig must exist in the same namespace as this MCPRemoteProxy.
Cross-namespace references are not supported for security and isolation reasons.
Name is the name of the MCPTelemetryConfig resource
Must be at least 1 characters long
ServiceName overrides the telemetry service name for this specific server.
This MUST be unique per server for proper observability (e.g., distinguishing
traces and metrics from different servers sharing the same collector).
If empty, defaults to the server name with "thv-" prefix at runtime.
ToolConfigRef references a MCPToolConfig resource for tool filtering and renaming.
The referenced MCPToolConfig must exist in the same namespace as this MCPRemoteProxy.
Cross-namespace references are not supported for security and isolation reasons.
If specified, this allows filtering and overriding tools from the remote MCP server.
Name is the name of the MCPToolConfig resource in the same namespace
Transport is the transport method for the remote proxy (sse or streamable-http)
TrustProxyHeaders indicates whether to trust X-Forwarded-* headers from reverse proxies
When enabled, the proxy will use X-Forwarded-Proto, X-Forwarded-Host, X-Forwarded-Port,
and X-Forwarded-Prefix headers to construct endpoint URLs
MCPRemoteProxyStatus defines the observed state of MCPRemoteProxy
AuthServerConfigHash is the hash of the referenced authServerRef spec,
used to detect configuration changes and trigger reconciliation.
AuthzConfigHash is the hash of the referenced MCPAuthzConfig spec for change detection
Conditions represent the latest available observations of the MCPRemoteProxy's state
No Additional ItemsCondition contains details for one aspect of the current state of this API Resource.
lastTransitionTime is the last time the condition transitioned from one status to another.
This should be when the underlying condition changed. If that is not known, then using the time when the API field changed is acceptable.
message is a human readable message indicating details about the transition.
This may be an empty string.
Must be at most 32768 characters long
observedGeneration represents the .metadata.generation that the condition was set based upon.
For instance, if .metadata.generation is currently 12, but the .status.conditions[x].observedGeneration is 9, the condition is out of date
with respect to the current state of the instance.
Value must be greater or equal to 0
reason contains a programmatic identifier indicating the reason for the condition's last transition.
Producers of specific condition types may define expected values and meanings for this field,
and whether the values are considered a guaranteed API.
The value should be a CamelCase string.
This field may not be empty.
^[A-Za-z]([A-Za-z0-9_,:]*[A-Za-z0-9_])?$
Must be at least 1 characters long
Must be at most 1024 characters long
status of the condition, one of True, False, Unknown.
type of condition in CamelCase or in foo.example.com/CamelCase.
Must match regular expression:^([a-z0-9]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])?(\.[a-z0-9]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])?)*/)?(([A-Za-z0-9][-A-Za-z0-9_.]*)?[A-Za-z0-9])$
Must be at most 316 characters long
ExternalAuthConfigHash is the hash of the referenced MCPExternalAuthConfig spec
ExternalURL is the external URL where the proxy can be accessed (if exposed externally)
Message provides additional information about the current phase
ObservedGeneration reflects the generation of the most recently observed MCPRemoteProxy
OIDCConfigHash is the hash of the referenced MCPOIDCConfig spec for change detection
Phase is the current phase of the MCPRemoteProxy
TelemetryConfigHash stores the hash of the referenced MCPTelemetryConfig for change detection
ToolConfigHash stores the hash of the referenced ToolConfig for change detection
URL is the internal cluster URL where the proxy can be accessed