A focused toolkit for VMware's NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly Avi Networks) that wraps both the AVI REST API and Kubernetes AKO operations into 29 MCP tools. You get virtual service lifecycle control, pool member drain/restore, SSL certificate expiry checks, Service Engine health monitoring, and deep AKO troubleshooting including Ingress diagnostics, sync status checks, and Helm config management. Built by a VMware engineer as a community project, it pairs with companion servers for vSphere VMs, NSX networking, and Tanzu clusters. The dual mode architecture handles both traditional Controller management and modern Kubernetes ingress workflows, making it practical for teams running ALB in hybrid environments where you need to correlate load balancer state with Kubernetes objects.
claude mcp add --transport stdio zw008-vmware-avi uvx vmware-avi