Running MCP Servers on EKS: Architecture for Production Agentic Workloads
MCP servers are spreading from local dev tools into production infrastructure. The default deployment patterns work fine for a single user. They fall apart when you put MCP behind real traffic on EKS. This post is about what changes when you run MCP servers as production workloads, what breaks, and how to design around it.
For most of 2025, MCP servers lived on developer laptops. You connected your editor or your local Claude client to a stdio process, the process held a session, you were the only user. Production was not a concern because there was no production.
