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Kubernetes

Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community.

agent native

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 Kubernetes the way a machine reads it — 37 machine-readable artifacts across 7 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 scores 65.9/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 77/100 (agent native). 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 — 65.9/100 · strong
Contract Quality 20.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 9.2 / 13
Governance 6.3 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 77/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Kubernetes

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Kubernetes. 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 7

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 Autoscaling API

Autoscaling resources including HorizontalPodAutoscalers for automatically scaling workloads based on observed metrics.

Kubernetes Cluster API

Cluster-level resources including Namespaces, Nodes, ServiceAccounts, and RBAC resources for cluster administration.

Kubernetes Config API

Configuration and storage resources including ConfigMaps, Secrets, PersistentVolumes, and PersistentVolumeClaims.

Kubernetes Events API

Event resources capturing occurrences within the cluster such as pod scheduling, container restarts, and resource state changes.

Kubernetes Namespaces API

The Namespaces API from Kubernetes — 2 operation(s) for namespaces.

Kubernetes RBAC API

Role-based access control resources including Roles, RoleBindings, ClusterRoles, and ClusterRoleBindings for managing authorization.

Kubernetes Workloads API

Workload resources including Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, ReplicaSets, Jobs, and CronJobs for managing containerized applications.

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Open Collections 1

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 API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 16

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Kubernetes Attach a HorizontalPodAutoscaler to a Deployment

Confirm a deployment exists, create an HPA targeting it, and list the namespace's autoscalers.

ARAZZO

Kubernetes Audit Cluster Node Capacity

List the cluster's nodes, read one node's capacity and conditions in full, and enumerate namespaces.

ARAZZO

Kubernetes Publish a ConfigMap and Roll Out Its Consumers

Inventory existing ConfigMaps, publish the new configuration, then roll the deployment that reads it.

ARAZZO

Kubernetes Deploy an Application into a New Namespace

Create a namespace, seed its config and secrets, deploy the workload, and expose it behind a service.

ARAZZO

Kubernetes Expose a Deployment Behind a Service

Resolve a deployment, then create a fronting service or replace the existing one to match.

ARAZZO

Kubernetes Apply Governance Labels to a Namespace

Read a namespace, replace it carrying governance labels, and confirm the labels stuck.

ARAZZO

Kubernetes Provision a ClusterRole If Missing

Check whether a ClusterRole already exists and create it only when it does not.

ARAZZO

Kubernetes Quarantine a Failing Pod for Inspection

Relabel a misbehaving pod out of its service and ReplicaSet, then capture its logs while it stays alive.

ARAZZO

Kubernetes Restart a Pod by Deleting It

Confirm a pod is controller-owned, delete it gracefully, and watch the replacement appear.

ARAZZO

Kubernetes Retire an Application from a Namespace

Find an application's deployment, remove its service and deployment, and confirm the pods are gone.

ARAZZO

Kubernetes Roll Out a New Container Image

Read a deployment, replace it with an updated image, then watch the rollout and its events.

ARAZZO

Kubernetes Rotate a Secret and Restart Its Consumers

Inventory existing secrets, write the new credential, then roll the deployment that consumes it.

ARAZZO

Kubernetes Run a One-Off Task Pod and Collect Its Output

Create a run-to-completion pod, poll it until it finishes, read its log, then clean it up.

ARAZZO

Kubernetes Scale a Deployment and Verify Replicas

Read the current scale of a deployment, set a new replica count, and confirm the pods landed.

ARAZZO

Kubernetes Inventory and Tear Down a Namespace

Record what a namespace contains, delete the namespace, and confirm it entered Terminating.

ARAZZO

Kubernetes Troubleshoot a Failing Pod

Find pods that are not Running, read the failing pod's detail, tail its logs, and pull namespace events.

ARAZZO

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

kubernetes-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

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 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.

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 Watch Events

The Kubernetes Watch API provides a streaming event interface for receiving real-time notifications about changes to cluster resources. Clients subscribe to resource types and r...

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 Context

0 classes · 36 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 API Rules

5 rules · 1 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Kubernetes API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

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.

Kubernetes Resource

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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 Authentication

http/mutualTLS · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Kubernetes Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Kubernetes 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 Agentic Access

34 operations · 17 acting

34 operations · 17 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Kubernetes — 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 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Learn 3

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/kubernetes · machine-readable index on apis.io