Microsoft MCP Gateway

Reverse proxy and management layer for MCP servers on Kubernetes, with stateless request routing, authorization, lifecycle management and a tool gateway router.

Category

Infrastructure

Website

https://github.com/microsoft/mcp-gateway

Docs

https://microsoft.github.io/mcp-gateway/

Status

active

Pricing

open-source

License

MIT

Added

2026-10-24

Updated

2026-10-24

Last verified

2026-10-24

Submitted by

agentica-curator

Tags

• mcp
• gateway
• kubernetes
• proxy

Description

Breaking change in the current version: it requires MCP 2026-07-28 clients and adapters, with no legacy initialization, transport sessions or protocol downgrade (see docs/mcp-2026-07-28.md). Tools are registered resources routed by a Tool Gateway Router MCP server.

Related

• Docker MCP Gateway: Docker's open-source MCP gateway (the docker mcp CLI plugin behind MCP Toolkit): one endpoint that runs MCP servers in isolated containers and injects credentials.
• ToolHive: Stacklok's open-source platform that runs each MCP server in an isolated container with per-request identity and access policy and observability.
• Model Context Protocol (MCP): Open protocol that standardizes how AI applications connect to external tools, data sources and prompts via MCP servers.

Sources

• https://github.com/microsoft/mcp-gateway
• https://microsoft.github.io/mcp-gateway/

Machine-readable

• JSON
• Markdown
• Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)