MCP and AI Agents 101 for Infrastructure Engineers
Chapter 1: MCP and AI Agents 101 At some point in the last few months, someone on your team showed up talking about an “AI agent” or an “MCP server” and asked you to grant access, ship a deployment, or explain to the CISO why there’s a non-deterministic process with permission to touch the production cluster. This post is the mental model I wish I’d had before touching any of this for the first time: no hype, and with a real example running on Azure along the way. ...