Experiments with possibility to run mcp server inside docker container

[Kanaduchi]

Hello!

I tried to run reportportal-mcp-server on the same instance as Report Portal and was not able to reach it over HTTP.

# docker-compose.yml (initial attempt)
reportportal-mcp:
  image: reportportal/mcp-server:latest
  container_name: reportportal-mcp
  logging:
    <<: *logging
  environment:
    RP_HOST: https://reportportal.domain.com/
    RP_API_TOKEN: token
    MCP_PORT: 4389
    MCP_TRANSPORT: sse
  ports:
    - "4389:4389"
  restart: always
  networks:
    - reportportal
  profiles:
    - ''

It looks like this MCP server doesn’t support the SSE transport.

To work around that, I wrapped it with mcp-proxy:

mcp-proxy.Dockerfile

# mcp-proxy.Dockerfile
FROM ghcr.io/sparfenyuk/mcp-proxy:latest

RUN apk add --no-cache docker-cli bash

ENTRYPOINT ["mcp-proxy"]

docker-compose.yml

reportportal-mcp-proxy:
  build:
    context: .
    dockerfile: mcp-proxy.Dockerfile
  container_name: reportportal-mcp-proxy
  restart: unless-stopped
  ports:
    - "4389:4389"
  environment:
    RP_HOST: https://reportportal.domain.com/
    RP_API_TOKEN: token
  volumes:
    - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
  command: >
    --host 0.0.0.0
    --port 4389
    --allow-origin "*"
    --pass-environment --
    docker run -i --rm
      -e RP_HOST
      -e RP_API_TOKEN
      -e RP_PROJECT
      reportportal/mcp-server

With the proxy in place, HTTP works. I can connect from Cursor or any MCP inspector using:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "reportportal": {
      "url": "https://reportportal.domain.com:4389/sse"
    }
  }
}

Suggestion: It might be helpful to add native SSE transport support directly in reportportal-mcp-server, so it can be deployed alongside Report Portal docker-compose file without requiring an external proxy.

[AmsterGet]

Hello @Kanaduchi !
Thank you for your suggestion.
We are in progress of fully support the streamable http for MCP server with authorization enabled as the server will provide multi tenant access to ReportPortal.
We'll test it shortly and release a new version - stay tuned.

[donRumata83]

Hey, colleagues. I'm eager to use your MCP server for one of my POC. I saw that you already merged PRs with multi-client functionality and http support. Any thoughts about when it can be released?

[AmsterGet]

Hello @donRumata83 !
Thanks for your interest!
We are going to start testing this stuff.
It is difficult to say the exact date, but I hope it will take no more than two weeks.

[AmsterGet]

This feature already implemented will be included in the next 1.1.0 release.