ContextForge MCP Gateway on Ubuntu 24.04

ContextForge MCP Gateway on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS by cloudimg

ContextForge MCP Gateway is IBM's open source gateway, registry and proxy for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the standard that lets AI assistants and agents call external tools. It sits in front of many separate MCP servers and presents them as one authenticated endpoint, with a registry of servers and tools, virtual server composition, transport normalisation and an admin web interface. This cloudimg image ships the gateway with one real reference MCP server already federated on first boot, so a working proxied tool call is available the moment it boots.

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• Secure by default the gateway and its database bind to loopback behind an HTTPS reverse proxy, and unauthenticated requests are refused
• No baked credential the administrator password, JWT signing secret and encryption secret are generated uniquely on the first boot of every instance and stored in a root only file
• Proven on first boot the build verifies a real tool call travelling through the gateway to the bundled MCP server end to end

What's Included

• ContextForge MCP Gateway 1.0.5 in a Python virtual environment, bound to loopback and fronted by an nginx TLS reverse proxy
• A bundled reference MCP time server, federated with the gateway at first boot
• A self contained SQLite datastore, with no external database to run
• A paired deploy guide and unattended security upgrades

Use Cases

• One authenticated front door for many MCP servers
• A central registry and admin console for AI tool servers
• Composing virtual MCP servers from selected tools

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