--- title: AI-powered multicluster management: Querying fleet... description: A new Technology Preview MCP server for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) for Kubernetes lets administrators connect OpenShift Lightspeed to their ACM... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-powered-multicluster-management-querying-fleet-health-with-openshift-lightspeed-and-red-hat-adva-dnxlvaqsw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI-powered multicluster management: Querying fleet health with OpenShift Lightspeed and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management | daily.dev og:description: A new Technology Preview MCP server for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) for Kubernetes lets administrators connect OpenShift Lightspeed to their ACM... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-powered-multicluster-management-querying-fleet-health-with-openshift-lightspeed-and-red-hat-adva-dnxlvaqsw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dNXLVaqSW.png og:image:alt: AI-powered multicluster management: Querying fleet health with OpenShift Lightspeed and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI-powered multicluster management: Querying fleet health with OpenShift Lightspeed and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management **[Red Hat Developer](https://daily.dev/sources/rhdev)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A new Technology Preview MCP server for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) for Kubernetes lets administrators connect OpenShift Lightspeed to their ACM hub cluster and query fleet-wide health using natural language instead of manual search queries. The walkthrough covers deploying the MCP server via Helm, configuring OpenShift Lightspeed's OLSConfig to register the MCP endpoint, bypassing human-in-the-loop approval for read-only searches, and example queries like checking OpenShift versions across clusters, listing pods in a namespace, and detecting unhealthy VMs across a fleet. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I connect OpenShift Lightspeed to Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management to query my Kubernetes fleet in natural language? Deploy the search-mcp-server (Technology Preview) to the ACM hub cluster via Helm, then register it in the OLSConfig custom resource under mcpServers with the internal cluster URL and a kubernetes-type Authorization header for automatic service account authentication. Once configured, OpenShift Lightspeed translates natural language prompts into ACM search queries and returns structured results from managed clusters. _daily.dev surfaces guides like this for teams wiring MCP servers into multicluster Kubernetes operations._ ### Why would you disable human-in-the-loop approval for an MCP server in OpenShift Lightspeed? Because a read-only tool that only queries and filters cluster data, without modifying state, doesn't need per-query manual confirmation, and requiring approval for every search would add latency and break the conversational flow of troubleshooting. Setting approvalType to never in the toolsApprovalConfig section of the OLS configuration removes that friction for safe, read-only MCP servers. _Engineers tuning AI assistant guardrails track these configuration tradeoffs on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Integrate incident detection with OpenShift Lightspeed via MCP](https://daily.dev/posts/integrate-incident-detection-with-openshift-lightspeed-via-mcp-tvurgpdnw) · Red Hat Developer · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Optimize infrastructure health with Red Hat Lightspeed MCP](https://daily.dev/posts/optimize-infrastructure-health-with-red-hat-lightspeed-mcp-cocdqahlh) · Red Hat Developer · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Simplify GitOps workflows with MCP in OpenShift Lightspeed](https://daily.dev/posts/simplify-gitops-workflows-with-mcp-in-openshift-lightspeed-fve9xumpc) · Red Hat Developer · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How to connect OpenShift Lightspeed MCP to your IDE](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-connect-openshift-lightspeed-mcp-to-your-ide-8ejcnk7cf) · Red Hat Developer · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - 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