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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.

agent ready

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.

Kin Score

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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 55.8/100 · developing
Contract Quality 20.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 8.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13
Governance 6.3 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 54/100 · 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 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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).

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.

Kubernetes Services Rate Limits

2 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.

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...

ASYNCAPI

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.

Kubernetes Services Context

0 classes · 28 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.

Kubernetes Services API Rules

8 rules · 1 errors · 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

Kubernetes Services API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON 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

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Endpoint

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EndpointConditions

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EndpointHints

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EndpointPort

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EndpointSlice

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EndpointSliceList

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Gateway

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GatewayClass

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GatewayClassList

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GatewayList

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GatewayListener

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GRPCRoute

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GRPCRouteList

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HTTPBackendRef

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HTTPIngressPath

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HTTPRoute

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HTTPRouteList

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HTTPRouteMatch

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Ingress

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IngressBackend

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IngressClass

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IngressClassList

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IngressList

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IngressRule

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IngressSpec

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IngressStatus

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IngressTLS

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IPBlock

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LabelSelector

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListMeta

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LoadBalancerIngress

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NetworkPolicy

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NetworkPolicyEgressRule

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NetworkPolicyIngressRule

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NetworkPolicyList

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NetworkPolicyPeer

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NetworkPolicyPort

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NetworkPolicySpec

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ObjectMeta

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Kubernetes Services Resource

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Service

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceList

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServicePort

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceSpec

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceStatus

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Status

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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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

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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.

Kubernetes Services Authentication

http/mutualTLS · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Kubernetes Services Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Kubernetes Services Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy 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.

Kubernetes Services Agentic Access

52 operations · 29 acting

52 operations · 29 acting

AGENTIC

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

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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