Need help with your APIs? I offer API discovery, governance & evangelism services. Explore services →
API Evangelist API Evangelist
Discovery
Learnings
Guidance
Toolbox
Alignment
API Evangelist LLC
Red Hat OpenShift website screenshot

Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat OpenShift is an enterprise Kubernetes platform that provides a consistent hybrid cloud foundation for building, deploying, and scaling containerized applications. OpenShift extends Kubernetes with developer productivity tools, built-in CI/CD pipelines, integrated monitoring and logging, automated cluster management, role-based access control, and security policies. It supports deployments on bare metal, virtual machines, public clouds, and managed OpenShift services (ROSA, ARO, RHOIC). The OpenShift REST API exposes hundreds of Kubernetes and OpenShift-specific resource types organized into API groups for workload management, networking, storage, security, builds, pipelines, and cluster configuration.

agent ready

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 Red Hat OpenShift the way a machine reads it — 59 machine-readable artifacts across 16 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 — Red Hat OpenShift scores 61.4/100 (strong), 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 — 61.4/100 · strong
Contract Quality 16.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 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 Red Hat OpenShift

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Red Hat OpenShift. 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 16

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.

Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton) API

OpenShift Pipelines is a cloud-native CI/CD solution based on Tekton that runs pipelines as Kubernetes-native CRDs. The API provides resources for defining Tasks (individual ste...

Red Hat OpenShift GitOps (ArgoCD) API

OpenShift GitOps is built on Argo CD and provides a GitOps continuous delivery solution for OpenShift clusters. The API exposes Application, AppProject, ApplicationSet, and Repo...

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh API

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh, based on Istio, Kiali, Jaeger, and Prometheus, provides traffic management, security, and observability for microservices. The Service Mesh API e...

Red Hat OpenShift Serverless (Knative) API

OpenShift Serverless, based on Knative, enables deploying and managing event-driven serverless workloads on OpenShift. The Serverless API exposes Knative Serving resources (Serv...

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) API

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is a fully managed OpenShift service co-managed by Red Hat and AWS. The ROSA API, exposed through the OCM service, provides operations fo...

Red Hat OpenShift Add-ons API

Manage cluster add-on installations

Red Hat OpenShift Builds API

Build and BuildConfig resources for source-to-image and Dockerfile builds

Red Hat OpenShift Clusters API

Manage OpenShift clusters across cloud providers

Red Hat OpenShift Deployment Configs API

DeploymentConfig resources for OpenShift-native deployment management

Red Hat OpenShift Identity Providers API

Configure authentication providers for clusters

Red Hat OpenShift Image Streams API

ImageStream and ImageStreamTag resources for container image management

Red Hat OpenShift Machine Pools API

Manage compute node pools for clusters

Red Hat OpenShift Projects API

OpenShift Project resources for multi-tenant workspace management

Red Hat OpenShift Routes API

Route resources for exposing services via HTTP/HTTPS hostnames

Red Hat OpenShift Security Context Constraints API

SCC resources for controlling pod security permissions

Red Hat OpenShift Versions API

Query available OpenShift versions

Scroll within the panel for all 16 ·

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.

Red Hat Openshift 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.

Red Hat Openshift Context

3 classes · 20 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.

Red Hat OpenShift API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Red Hat OpenShift API Rules

13 rules · 6 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 27

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.

AddOnInstallation

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AddOnInstallationList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Build

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BuildConfig

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BuildConfigList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BuildList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Cluster

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClusterList

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClusterPatch

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeploymentConfig

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeploymentConfigList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Error

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IdentityProvider

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IdentityProviderList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImageStream

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImageStreamList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MachinePool

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MachinePoolList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ObjectMeta

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Red Hat OpenShift Project

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProjectList

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Route

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RouteList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SecurityContextConstraints

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SecurityContextConstraintsList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Status

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VersionList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Scroll within the panel for all 27 ·

JSON Structure 2

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.

Red Hat Openshift Project Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Red Hat Openshift Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

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.

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.

Red Hat Openshift Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Red Hat Openshift Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Red Hat Openshift Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact 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.

Red Hat Openshift Agentic Access

30 operations · 15 acting

30 operations · 15 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Red Hat OpenShift — 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 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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