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Apache CloudStack

Apache CloudStack is an open-source cloud computing platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services. It provides a comprehensive IaaS platform supporting multiple hypervisors (KVM, VMware vSphere, XenServer) and a rich API for programmatic cloud resource management. CloudStack is used by service providers and enterprises to build public, private, and hybrid cloud environments with virtual machine management, networking, storage, and multi-tenancy features.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Apache CloudStack the way a machine reads it — 49 machine-readable artifacts across 4 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Apache CloudStack scores 60.2/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 60.2/100 · strong
Contract Quality 17.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Apache CloudStack

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Apache CloudStack. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 4

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Apache CloudStack Networks API

Network and IP address management operations.

Apache CloudStack Virtual Machines API

Virtual machine lifecycle management operations.

Apache CloudStack Volumes API

Volume and snapshot storage management operations.

Apache CloudStack Zones API

Zone and availability zone management operations.

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Apache Cloudstack Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 10

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Virtual Machine Management

Full VM lifecycle management including deploy, start, stop, reboot, migrate, and destroy across multiple hypervisors.

Multi-Hypervisor Support

Support for KVM, VMware vSphere, XenServer, and Hyper-V hypervisors within a single CloudStack deployment.

Network Management

Advanced networking with isolated networks, shared networks, VLANs, VPNs, and software-defined networking.

Storage Management

Primary and secondary storage management with volume snapshots, templates, and ISOs.

Multi-Tenancy

Account and domain hierarchy for isolating resources between tenants, departments, and organizations.

Asynchronous API

Long-running operations return async job IDs that can be polled for completion status.

Security Groups

Stateful firewall rules for controlling inbound and outbound traffic to virtual machines.

Auto Scaling

Automatic scaling of VM instances in response to load conditions using configurable policies.

REST API

Comprehensive query-parameter-based REST API with HMAC-SHA1 authentication for programmatic cloud management.

CloudStack UI

Web-based management console for administrators and users to manage cloud resources visually.

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Apache Cloudstack Context

6 classes · 21 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Apache CloudStack API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Apache CloudStack API Rules

19 rules · 3 errors · 15 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

AsyncJobResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Network

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VirtualMachine

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Volume

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Zone

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 5

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Cloudstack Api Network Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Cloudstack Api Virtual Machine Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Cloudstack Api Volume Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Cloudstack Api Zone Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 3

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Apache Cloudstack Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Apache Cloudstack Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Apache Cloudstack Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Apache Cloudstack Agentic Access

8 operations · 1 acting

8 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 5

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

Public Cloud Infrastructure

Build and operate public IaaS clouds for service providers offering compute, storage, and networking.

Private Enterprise Cloud

Deploy private clouds for enterprise organizations needing isolated, on-premises infrastructure.

Hybrid Cloud Orchestration

Extend on-premises CloudStack clouds to public cloud providers for burst capacity and disaster recovery.

Managed Service Provider Hosting

Host multi-tenant virtual server environments for managed service providers and resellers.

Development and Test Environments

Provision self-service development and testing environments on demand for engineering teams.

Integrations 7

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

KVM

KVM hypervisor support for Linux-based compute clusters in CloudStack zones.

VMware vSphere

VMware vSphere integration for managing ESXi hosts and vCenter clusters via CloudStack.

Apache Cloudbridge

Integration with Apache Cloudbridge for hybrid cloud connectivity between CloudStack and AWS.

Ceph

Ceph distributed storage integration for primary storage in CloudStack deployments.

OpenDaylight

OpenDaylight SDN controller integration for software-defined networking in CloudStack.

Terraform

HashiCorp Terraform CloudStack provider for infrastructure-as-code provisioning.

Ansible

Ansible CloudStack modules for automating VM provisioning and cloud management tasks.

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Resources

Every other property we hold for Apache CloudStack — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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