Description

I would like to contribute to mcp-server-uyuni, the MCP server for Uyuni / Multi-Linux Manager) exposing additional features as tools. There is lots of relevant features to be found throughout the API, for example:

System operations and infos
System groups
Maintenance windows
Ansible
Reporting
...

At the end of the week I managed to enable basic system group operations:

List all system groups visible to the user
Create new system groups
List systems assigned to a group
Add and remove systems from groups

Goals

Set up test environment locally with the MCP server and client + a recent MLM server [DONE]
Identify features and use cases offering a benefit with limited effort required for enablement [DONE]
Create a PR to the repo [DONE]

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MCP Server v0.1 A running Golang MCP server with at least one tool.
A README.md and a test script (e.g., curl commands or a simple notebook) showing how an AI agent would call the endpoint and the resulting JSON payload.

Resources

https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/its-the-end-of-observability-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-fine
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/datadog-remote-mcp-server
https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/index
https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/develop/build-server

Basic implementation

https://github.com/drutigliano19/suse-observability-mcp-server

Results

Example execution

The Agentic Rancher Experiment: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cattle? by moio

Rancher is a beast of a codebase. Let's investigate if the new 2025 generation of GitHub Autonomous Coding Agents and Copilot Workspaces can actually tame it.

The Plan

Create a sandbox GitHub Organization, clone in key Rancher repositories, and let the AI loose to see if it can handle real-world enterprise OSS maintenance - or if it just hallucinates new breeds of Kubernetes resources!

Specifically, throw "Agentic Coders" some typical tasks in a complex, long-lived open-source project, such as:

❥ The Grunt Work: generate missing GoDocs, unit tests, and refactorings. Rebase PRs.

❥ The Complex Stuff: fix actual (historical) bugs and feature requests to see if they can traverse the complexity without (too much) human hand-holding.

❥ Hunting Down Gaps: find areas lacking in docs, areas of improvement in code, dependency bumps, and so on.

If time allows, also experiment with Model Context Protocol (MCP) to give agents context on our specific build pipelines and CI/CD logs.

Why?

We know AI can write "Hello World." and also moderately complex programs from a green field. But can it rebase a 3-month-old PR with conflicts in rancher/rancher? I want to find the breaking point of current AI agents to determine if and how they can help us to reduce our technical debt, work faster and better. At the same time, find out about pitfalls and shortcomings.

The CONCLUSION!!!

A State of the Union document was compiled to summarize lessons learned this week. For more gory details, just read on the diary below!