Kubernetes Services
Kubernetes Services provide an abstract way to expose an application running on a set of Pods as a network service. They provide stable networking endpoints and load balancing across pod replicas in a Kubernetes cluster.
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 Kubernetes Services the way a machine reads it — 77 machine-readable artifacts across 13 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 — Kubernetes Services scores 55.8/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (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.
How we profile Kubernetes Services
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Kubernetes Services. 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 13
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.
Kubernetes DNS for Services and Pods
Kubernetes provides DNS-based service discovery for Services and Pods within a cluster. DNS records are automatically created for Services, allowing workloads to locate services...
Kubernetes Services EndpointSlices API
EndpointSlice resources tracking IP addresses, ports, and readiness of pods backing a Service, with topology-aware routing support.
Kubernetes Services Gateway API
Gateway resources instantiating traffic-handling infrastructure such as cloud load balancers or in-cluster proxies, with listeners for each protocol.
Kubernetes Services GatewayClass API
GatewayClass resources defining a class of gateway implementations. Cluster-scoped resources that link to a specific ingress or mesh controller.
Kubernetes Services GRPCRoute API
GRPCRoute resources defining gRPC routing rules from Gateway listeners to backend services with service and method name matching.
Kubernetes Services HTTPRoute API
HTTPRoute resources defining HTTP and HTTPS routing rules from Gateway listeners to backend services with support for path, header, and query parameter matching.
Kubernetes Services Ingress API
Ingress resources defining HTTP and HTTPS routing rules from external traffic to cluster services, with TLS termination support.
Kubernetes Services IngressClass API
IngressClass resources identifying which ingress controller should fulfill an Ingress resource.
Kubernetes Services IngressStatus API
Status subresource for Ingress objects, reporting load balancer IP or hostname assignments from the ingress controller.
Kubernetes Services Namespaces API
The Namespaces API from Kubernetes Services — 2 operation(s) for namespaces.
Kubernetes Services NetworkPolicy API
NetworkPolicy resources controlling Pod-level traffic ingress and egress based on label selectors, namespace selectors, and IP CIDR blocks.
Kubernetes Services Services API
The Services API from Kubernetes Services — 1 operation(s) for services.
Kubernetes Services ServiceStatus API
Status subresource operations for Services, used to update load balancer provisioning state and conditions.
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Open Collections 5
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Kubernetes Services Kubernetes EndpointSlices API
OPEN COLLECTIONKubernetes Services Kubernetes Gateway API
OPEN COLLECTIONKubernetes Services Kubernetes Ingress API
OPEN COLLECTIONKubernetes Services Kubernetes Network Policies API
OPEN COLLECTIONKubernetes Services API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing 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.
Kubernetes Services 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.
Event Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Kubernetes Services Watch Events
The Kubernetes Services watch API provides streaming event notifications for networking resources including Services, Ingresses, EndpointSlices, NetworkPolicies, and Gateway API...
ASYNCAPISemantic 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.
Kubernetes Services Context
JSON-LDSpectral 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.
Kubernetes Services API Rules
SPECTRALKubernetes Services API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 47
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.
Condition
JSON SCHEMAEndpoint
JSON SCHEMAEndpointConditions
JSON SCHEMAEndpointHints
JSON SCHEMAEndpointPort
JSON SCHEMAEndpointSlice
JSON SCHEMAEndpointSliceList
JSON SCHEMAGateway
JSON SCHEMAGatewayClass
JSON SCHEMAGatewayClassList
JSON SCHEMAGatewayList
JSON SCHEMAGatewayListener
JSON SCHEMAGRPCRoute
JSON SCHEMAGRPCRouteList
JSON SCHEMAHTTPBackendRef
JSON SCHEMAHTTPIngressPath
JSON SCHEMAHTTPRoute
JSON SCHEMAHTTPRouteList
JSON SCHEMAHTTPRouteMatch
JSON SCHEMAIngress
JSON SCHEMAIngressBackend
JSON SCHEMAIngressClass
JSON SCHEMAIngressClassList
JSON SCHEMAIngressList
JSON SCHEMAIngressRule
JSON SCHEMAIngressSpec
JSON SCHEMAIngressStatus
JSON SCHEMAIngressTLS
JSON SCHEMAIPBlock
JSON SCHEMALabelSelector
JSON SCHEMAListMeta
JSON SCHEMALoadBalancerIngress
JSON SCHEMANetworkPolicy
JSON SCHEMANetworkPolicyEgressRule
JSON SCHEMANetworkPolicyIngressRule
JSON SCHEMANetworkPolicyList
JSON SCHEMANetworkPolicyPeer
JSON SCHEMANetworkPolicyPort
JSON SCHEMANetworkPolicySpec
JSON SCHEMAObjectMeta
JSON SCHEMAKubernetes Services Resource
JSON SCHEMAService
JSON SCHEMAServiceList
JSON SCHEMAServicePort
JSON SCHEMAServiceSpec
JSON SCHEMAServiceStatus
JSON SCHEMAStatus
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 47 ·
JSON Structure 1
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.
Kubernetes Services Structure
JSON STRUCTURESecurity 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.
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 Kubernetes Services — 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 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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