CloudControl MCP Server

Typical product examples

• VPC: Create and manage network resources such as virtual private clouds, vSwitches, route tables, and other network resources.

• ECS: Create and manage compute resources such as ECS instances, images, and snapshots.

• Hologres: Create and manage data resources such as real-time data warehouse instances, databases, and tables.

• Container Registry: Create and manage container resources such as repositories, namespaces, and images.

• OSS: Create and manage storage resources such as buckets, objects, and lifecycle rules.

• ESA: Create and manage security resources such as edge security acceleration instances, domain configurations, and security policies.

Core capabilities

• Natural language interaction: Supports describing requirements in natural language and automatically converting them into resource operations.

• Unified resource management: Provides a unified interface to manage cloud products, abstracting away the differences between various product APIs.

• Intelligent schema query: Supports dynamic retrieval of resource attributes and configuration requirements, and autocompletes required parameters.

• IaC support: Supports exporting existing resources to Terraform HCL code, enabling Infrastructure as Code.

• Asynchronous task management: Supports asynchronous resource operations and task status queries.

Configure MCP Server

CloudControl MCP Server is a system service of the MCP Server. Follow these steps to configure it:

1. Go to OpenAPI MCP Service, navigate to the View MCP Service tab, and search for the cloudcontrol service.

2. In the service list, select the cloudcontrol service and click View Configuration Method. For example, to configure for Cursor, switch to the TONGYI Lingma/Cursor/Windsurf/VSCode tab and copy the configuration content to your mcp.json file.

   Example configuration: Under mcpServers, set the command for the cloudcontrol node to npx. Its args must include mcp-remote-alibaba-cloud and the service Endpoint URL. You can also click One-click Configuration to Cursor to complete the setup automatically.

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "cloudcontrol": {
         "command": "npx",
         "args": [
           "mcp-remote-alibaba-cloud",
           "https://openapi-mcp-xxx/mcp"
         ]
       }
     }
   }

3. Save the configuration file and start the MCP Server.

For more information about using MCP, see the OpenAPI MCP Server User Guide.

Usage

After you configure and start the MCP Server, you can interact with the CloudControl MCP Server using natural language.

The CloudControl MCP Server integrates with an AI assistant through the MCP protocol. You can directly converse with the AI assistant in natural language, and the assistant automatically uses the CloudControl MCP Server tools to perform the requested actions.

Example conversation:

Create a VPC for me in China (Ulanqab).

The AI assistant then calls a series of APIs: GetResourceType to check the resource type, CreateResource to create the VPC (which requires the RegionId field and accepts optional fields such as CidrBlock and VpcName), GetTask to poll for status, and GetResources to retrieve the new VPC's details. Once the task succeeds, the server returns the VPC information, including the region cn-wulanchabu, the CIDR block 172.16.0.0/16, the status Available, and the description Test VPC created via CloudControl API. The task status is Succeeded.

Resource inventory

"Show me all the OSS buckets in my account."

"I want to create a VPC. What parameters are required?"

"What cloud products does CloudControl support?"

Product trial

"I want to try OSS. Create a test bucket for me."

Resource creation

"Create a VPC in the China (Beijing) region with the CIDR block 172.16.0.0/12 and the name my-vpc."

"Create an ECS instance with 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory, and the CentOS 7 operating system. Place it in the VPC that was just created."

Proof of concept

"Help me build a 3-tier architecture that includes the network tier, application tier, and data tier."

IaC migration and upgrades

"Export the VPC named my-vpc in my account to Terraform code."