Connect Hetzner to Microsoft Copilot via MCP

💡 No install? Use cloud.anythingmcp.com directly. Sign in, click Connectors → Hetzner Cloud, paste your credentials, mint an MCP API key — done. No Docker, no git clone, no local server.

Hetzner Cloud + Microsoft Copilot

Hetzner Cloud: servers with metrics and actions, images and snapshots, volumes, networks, firewalls, load balancers, IPs, SSH keys, certificates, DNS zones, server types and pricing. Power tools are installed disabled. Hetzner Cloud API v1 with a project token.

Prerequisites

See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:

HETZNER_CLOUD_API_TOKEN

Step 1 — Get credentials

1. In the Hetzner Console, open your project, then Security → API tokens → Generate API token.
2. Choose Read for a read-only connector, or Read & Write only if you plan to enable the power tools. Copy the token into HETZNER_CLOUD_API_TOKEN; Hetzner shows it only once. It is sent as Authorization: Bearer.
3. A token belongs to one project, so create one connector per project.
4. Start with hetzner_cloud_list_servers, then hetzner_cloud_get_server_metrics for a server's load and hetzner_cloud_get_pricing or hetzner_cloud_list_server_types for costs.

The power tools (hetzner_cloud_power_on_server, hetzner_cloud_power_off_server, hetzner_cloud_shutdown_server, hetzner_cloud_reboot_server, hetzner_cloud_reset_server) are installed switched off; enable them deliberately. Power off and reset cut the server like pulling the plug, so prefer shutdown or reboot. Each returns an action to poll with hetzner_cloud_get_action, and a server that is off is still billed. No tool creates, rebuilds or deletes anything. The API allows 3600 requests per hour per project. Hetzner Robot (dedicated servers) and Storage Boxes are not covered.

Step 2 — Install the adapter

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d

Step 3 — Add the connector in Microsoft Copilot

Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide shows YOUR_SERVER_ID.

Microsoft Copilot uses MCP servers through agents built in Copilot Studio: you add AnythingMCP to an agent as a tool, then publish the agent to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams. Copilot Studio connects from Microsoft's cloud over Streamable HTTP, which AnythingMCP supports.

1. In Copilot Studio, open your agent (or create one), go to Tools and choose Add a tool → New tool → Model Context Protocol.
2. Enter a Server name (for example AnythingMCP), a Server description that says what the connector does, and the Server URL https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID. Copilot Studio uses the description to decide when to call the server.
3. Under authentication, choose API key, set Type to Header and the header name to X-API-Key, then select Create.
4. In Add tool, choose Create a new connection, paste an MCP API key from AnythingMCP (MCP Servers → your server → API keys) and select Add to agent.
5. Try it in the agent's Test pane: ask for something that needs the Hetzner Cloud tools.
6. Select Publish, then Channels → Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams, keep Make agent available in Microsoft Copilot selected and choose Add channel. See agent in Teams installs it for you; in Microsoft 365 Copilot, type @ and pick the agent.

Prefer per-user sign-in? Choose OAuth 2.0 → Dynamic discovery instead of an API key: each user then signs in to AnythingMCP the first time the agent calls it.

Self-hosting? Use your instance's public HTTPS address instead of https://cloud.anythingmcp.com. Copilot Studio connects from Microsoft's cloud, so localhost does not work.

Available tools

(showing 30 of 31 tools — install the connector to see them all)

FAQ

Which Copilot is this for? Microsoft 365 Copilot at work, through agents built in Copilot Studio. The Microsoft Copilot app for personal accounts has no option to add your own MCP server.

What do I need? A work account with access to Copilot Studio (a license or a trial) to build the agent. People who use it in Microsoft 365 Copilot or Teams need access to the agent: share it with them, or ask an admin to publish it to the organization. If your organization applies data policies to Power Platform connectors, they cover MCP servers too.

The agent doesn't call the tools. Check that the header name is exactly X-API-Key and that the key belongs to the same MCP server as the URL, and make the server description specific: Copilot Studio uses it to decide when to call the server. Publish the agent again after each change; in an open chat, type "start over" to get the new version.

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