# Giant Swarm Platform API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/giant-swarm/platform-api/  
**Provider:** Giant Swarm — https://apis.io/providers/giant-swarm/  
**Base URL:** https://api.{managementClusterBaseDomain}/  
**Documentation:** https://docs.giantswarm.io/getting-started/access-to-platform-api/

Giant Swarm Platform API is one of 2 APIs that [Giant Swarm](https://apis.io/providers/giant-swarm/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Kubernetes and Platform Engineering. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, authentication docs, and a GitHub repository.

Giant Swarm's platform API is a Kubernetes API that operates on each customer management cluster, offering custom resources (Cluster API clusters, App Platform apps, catalogs, policies) to create and update workload clusters and deploy applications, accessed via kubectl with the kubectl-gs plugin, GitOps (Flux) or the developer portal. Each management cluster has its own API endpoint, https://api.<management cluster base domain>/, provided by Giant Swarm.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.giantswarm.io/getting-started/access-to-platform-api/
- **APIReference** — https://docs.giantswarm.io/reference/platform-api/
- **Authentication** — https://docs.giantswarm.io/tutorials/access-management/authentication/user/
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/giantswarm/apiextensions-application
- **APIsJSON** — https://artifacts.apis.io/giant-swarm/apis.yml

## Other Giant Swarm APIs (1)

- [Giant Swarm Observability Platform API](https://apis.io/apis/giant-swarm/observability-platform-api/)

## Tags

Kubernetes, Platform Engineering

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