Azure Container Registry
Azure Container Registry is a managed Docker registry service based on the open-source Docker Registry for storing and managing private container images and artifacts. It supports automated container image builds, geo-replication, and integrates with Azure Kubernetes Service and other Azure deployment targets.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Azure Container Registry the way a machine reads it — 102 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 — Azure Container Registry scores 57.1/100 (developing), 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Azure Container Registry
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Azure Container Registry. 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.
Azure Container Registry Operation API
The Operation API from Azure Container Registry — 2 operation(s) for operation.
Azure Container Registry Registries API
The Registries API from Azure Container Registry — 7 operation(s) for registries.
Azure Container Registry Replications API
The Replications API from Azure Container Registry — 2 operation(s) for replications.
Azure Container Registry Webhooks API
The Webhooks API from Azure Container Registry — 5 operation(s) for webhooks.
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.
Azure Container Registry Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
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.
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.
Azure Container Registry API Rules
SPECTRALAzure Container Registry API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 29
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.
Actor
JSON SCHEMACallbackConfig
JSON SCHEMAEncryptionProperty
JSON SCHEMAEventContent
JSON SCHEMAEventInfo
JSON SCHEMAEventListResult
JSON SCHEMAEventRequestMessage
JSON SCHEMAEventResponseMessage
JSON SCHEMAEvent
JSON SCHEMAIdentityProperties
JSON SCHEMAImportImageParameters
JSON SCHEMAImportSourceCredentials
JSON SCHEMAImportSource
JSON SCHEMAIPRule
JSON SCHEMAKeyVaultProperties
JSON SCHEMANetworkRuleSet
JSON SCHEMAOperationDefinition
JSON SCHEMAOperationDisplayDefinition
JSON SCHEMAOperationMetricSpecificationDefinition
JSON SCHEMAOperationPropertiesDefinition
JSON SCHEMAOperationServiceSpecificationDefinition
JSON SCHEMAPolicies
JSON SCHEMAQuarantinePolicy
JSON SCHEMARegenerateCredentialParameters
JSON SCHEMARegistryListCredentialsResult
JSON SCHEMARegistryListResult
JSON SCHEMARegistryNameCheckRequest
JSON SCHEMARegistryNameStatus
JSON SCHEMARegistry
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 29 ·
JSON Structure 29
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.
Azure Container Registry Actor Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Container Registry Callback Config Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Container Registry Encryption Property Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Container Registry Event Content Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Container Registry Event Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Container Registry Event List Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Container Registry Event Request Message Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Container Registry Event Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Container Registry Identity Properties Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Container Registry Import Source Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Container Registry Ip Rule Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Container Registry Key Vault Properties Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Container Registry Network Rule Set Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Container Registry Operation Definition Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Container Registry Policies Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Container Registry Quarantine Policy Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Container Registry Registry List Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Container Registry Registry Name Status Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAzure Container Registry Registry Structure
JSON STRUCTUREScroll within the panel for all 29 ·
Examples 29
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.
Scroll within the panel for all 29 ·
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.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Azure Container Registry — 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 2
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 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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