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OpenStack

Open source cloud computing platform for building and managing public and private clouds, providing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) through a set of interrelated services including Compute (Nova), Object Storage (Swift), Block Storage (Cinder), Networking (Neutron), Identity (Keystone), Image (Glance), Orchestration (Heat), Database (Trove), DNS (Designate), and Load Balancer (Octavia). Each service exposes its own REST API; clients authenticate against Keystone and use the returned service catalog to discover per-region endpoints for the remaining services.

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 OpenStack the way a machine reads it — 33 machine-readable artifacts across 22 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 — OpenStack scores 55.3/100 (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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 55.3/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 9.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 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 OpenStack

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for OpenStack. 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 22

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.

OpenStack Networking (Neutron) API

Neutron provides networking as a service, exposing endpoints for networks, subnets, ports, routers, floating IPs, security groups, load balancers, firewalls, and VPN-as-a-Service.

OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) API

Cinder provides persistent block-level storage volumes that can be attached to Nova instances. The v3 API exposes endpoints for volumes, snapshots, backups, volume types, attach...

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) API

Swift is the OpenStack object storage service. The API exposes endpoints for accounts, containers, and objects with eventual- consistency replication, large-object support, and ...

OpenStack Image (Glance) API

Glance manages disk and server images. The v2 API exposes endpoints for images, image members, image tags, image data upload/download, tasks, schemas, and metadata definitions.

OpenStack Orchestration (Heat) API

Heat is the OpenStack orchestration service that manages infrastructure-as-code deployments via HOT (Heat Orchestration Template) and AWS CloudFormation-compatible templates. Th...

OpenStack Load Balancer (Octavia) API

Octavia provides Load Balancing as a Service. The v2 API exposes endpoints for load balancers, listeners, pools, members, health monitors, L7 policies and rules, and TLS contain...

OpenStack DNS (Designate) API

Designate is the OpenStack DNS-as-a-Service. The v2 API exposes endpoints for zones, recordsets, pools, transfers, and TSIG keys.

OpenStack Database (Trove) API

Trove is the OpenStack Database-as-a-Service that provisions and manages database instances (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, MariaDB, Cassandra, etc.) on top of OpenStack.

OpenStack Domains API

Domain management for multi-tenancy.

OpenStack Endpoints API

Service endpoint URLs per region and interface.

OpenStack Flavors API

Compute instance flavors.

OpenStack Groups API

Group management.

OpenStack Images API

Image references.

OpenStack Keypairs API

SSH key pair management.

OpenStack Projects API

Project (tenant) management.

OpenStack Roles API

Role definitions and assignments.

OpenStack Server Actions API

Lifecycle actions on servers.

OpenStack Servers API

Compute instance management.

OpenStack Services API

Service catalog entries.

OpenStack Tokens API

Issue and validate authentication tokens.

OpenStack Users API

User management.

OpenStack Versions API

API version discovery.

Scroll within the panel for all 22 ·

Open Collections 2

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.

Openstack 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.

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.

Openstack Context

6 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

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.

OpenStack API Rules

5 rules · 3 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.

OpenStack Nova Server

20 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

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.

Openstack Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Openstack Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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.

Openstack Agentic Access

41 operations · 19 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

41 operations · 19 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for OpenStack — 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

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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