Containers is one of the API Evangelist areas on the APIs.io network — a focused corner of the API landscape. The full area lives at containers.apievangelist.com.
30 providers on the network work in this area, including Cloudflare, Canonical, Amazon Lightsail, Azure Kubernetes Service, IBM, Calico, and 24 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
Related areas: Serverless, Deployment, Microservices, and Database. Browse every area at areas.apis.io.
About this area
An index of container runtime, orchestration, registry, security, and build tool repositories tracking the services and tools that package, deploy, and manage containerized…
Related providers (133)
Top 30 of 133 network providers tagged for this area — search the full set on apis.io.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable. | 25 | exemplar |
| Canonical | Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the world's most popular open source operating system for cloud, servers, desktops, IoT, and Kubernetes. Canonical publishes a broad set ... | 13 | exemplar |
| Amazon Lightsail | Amazon Lightsail is a virtual private server (VPS) provider and is the easiest way to get started with AWS for developers, small businesses, students, and other users who need a... | 3 | exemplar |
| Azure Kubernetes Service | Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) simplifies deploying a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure by offloading the operational overhead to Azure. As a hosted Kubernetes service, Azure ... | 1 | exemplar |
| IBM | IBM offers solutions that protect identities and sensitive access for enterprise customers. Its IBM Vault® product is highlighted as a tool for identity protection and regulator... | 1 | strong |
| Calico | Calico is an open source networking and network security solution for containers, virtual machines, and native host-based workloads. Created and maintained by Tigera, it is the ... | 1 | strong |
| Paperspace | Paperspace is a GPU cloud platform for AI, ML, and 3D rendering workloads, acquired by DigitalOcean in 2023. The platform combines on-demand GPU/CPU machines (Core), the Gradien... | 4 | strong |
| GoHarbor | Harbor is an open source, CNCF-hosted registry that stores, signs and scans OCI artifacts, adding the policy and identity layer a plain container registry lacks: projects, RBAC ... | 2 | strong |
| Koyeb | Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform for deploying applications, Postgres databases, GPU workloads and isolated code-execution sandboxes across a global edge networ... | 1 | strong |
| Azure Container Apps | Azure Container Apps is a serverless container service for running microservices and containerized applications with built-in autoscaling, traffic splitting, and Dapr integratio... | 1 | strong |
| Red Hat | APIs and developer resources from Red Hat, a leading provider of enterprise open source solutions including Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat deliver... | 75 | strong |
| Upsun | Upsun is the cloud application platform from Platform.sh that automatically builds, deploys, and scales applications with git-driven workflows, preview environments per branch, ... | 1 | strong |
| JFrog Container Registry | JFrog Container Registry is a free, hybrid, and multi-cloud Docker registry and Helm chart repository for managing and distributing container images. It provides advanced access... | 1 | strong |
| Platform.sh | Platform.sh is the container-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) founded in 2010 and headquartered in Paris and San Francisco, best known for Git-driven deployments in which a si... | 2 | strong |
| Seqera Labs | Seqera (Seqera Labs) builds open, cloud-based software for scientific data analysis at scale. It is the company behind Nextflow, the widely adopted open-source workflow orchestr... | 1 | strong |
| Amazon ECS | Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. | 1 | strong |
| Amazon ECR | Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully managed container registry that makes it easy to store, manage, share, and deploy container images and artifacts. ECR eliminat... | 1 | strong |
| Dagger | Dagger is an open-source programmable CI/CD engine that runs pipelines in containers using a unified, introspectable GraphQL API. Pipelines are written as code in the developer'... | 1 | strong |
| AWS App Runner | AWS App Runner is a fully managed service that makes it easy to build, deploy, and run containerized web applications and APIs at scale. It automatically builds and deploys appl... | 16 | strong |
| Cloud Foundry | Cloud Foundry is an open-source, multi-cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. It provides a developer-friendly application platform where o... | 2 | strong |
| TensorDock | TensorDock operates a global GPU cloud marketplace that connects independent hardware hosts with customers needing affordable on-demand and spot GPU compute. The platform expose... | 1 | strong |
| Azure Container Instances | Azure Container Instances (ACI) is the fastest and simplest way to run containers in Azure without having to manage virtual machines or adopt a higher-level orchestration servic... | 1 | developing |
| Portainer | Portainer provides a centralized multi‑cluster management platform for Kubernetes, Docker, Swarm and Podman workloads. It offers enterprise identity and access features such as ... | 1 | developing |
| Scaleway | Scaleway is a European cloud provider offering a full suite of compute, storage, networking, AI, and serverless infrastructure services. Scaleway provides a comprehensive REST A... | 10 | developing |
| Gameye | Gameye is a managed game server orchestration platform for multiplayer game studios, founded in 2017 in Rotterdam (Gameye B.V.). It runs dedicated, containerized game servers ac... | 1 | developing |
| Snyk Container | Snyk Container helps developers find and fix vulnerabilities in container images and Kubernetes workloads. It integrates into existing development workflows to provide continuou... | 1 | developing |
| Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus | Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a serverless, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service for container metrics. It automatically scales as your monitoring needs increase,... | 1 | developing |
| Azure Container Registry | Azure Container Registry is a managed Docker registry service based on the open-source Docker Registry for storing and managing private container images and artifacts. It suppor... | 1 | developing |
| 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. OpenSh... | 2 | developing |
| Amazon Fargate | Amazon Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS. Fargate removes the need to provision and manage servers, letting yo... | 6 | developing |
Related areas
Serverless (5 shared)
Deployment (4 shared)
Microservices (3 shared)
Database (2 shared)
Machine Learning (2 shared)
DNS (1 shared)
Markets provisional
Kin Score markets whose measured providers carry this area. Share is the fraction of the market's measured providers that carry it — it describes the market, not this area.
| Market | Share of the market's providers |
|---|---|
| Container Registries (OCI Distribution) | 55% |
| Typed Decision Models | 10% |
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 30 providers in the APIs.io catalog working in Containers, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
Providers
30
all scored
Mean Kin Score
59
+36.8 vs catalog 22.2
Mean Agent Readiness
33.6
+21.6 vs catalog 12
Spread
49.1–80.6
median 57.3 · σ 7.7
How the 30 split by band
Exemplar 4Strong 17Developing 9Thin 0Emerging 0Minimal 0
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer Ergonomics | 65.6 | 23.2 | +42.4 | 30 |
| Contract Quality | 55.8 | 17.2 | +38.6 | 30 |
| Access Clarity | 62.2 | 23.9 | +38.3 | 30 |
| Operational Transparency | 44.3 | 13 | +31.3 | 30 |
| Contract Governance | 24.6 | 6.5 | +18.1 | 30 |
| Discoverability | 69.7 | 57.9 | +11.8 | 30 |
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
What this cohort publishes
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 37% | 13% | +24 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 33% | 12% | +21 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 40% | 11% | +29 |
| Security | 100% | 98% | +2 |
| Arazzo workflows | 27% | 2% | +25 |
| Governance rules | 73% | 16% | +57 |
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
Top by Kin Score
- 1 Cloudflare 80.6
- 2 Canonical 74.8
- 3 Amazon Lightsail 73.8
- 4 Azure Kubernetes Service 68.4
- 5 IBM 66.4
- 6 Calico 64.9
- 7 Paperspace 64.2
- 8 GoHarbor 62.1
- 9 Koyeb 62
- 10 Azure Container Apps 61.2
Top by Agent Readiness
- 1 Cloudflare 69.6
- 2 Upsun 59.4
- 3 Platform.sh 55.3
- 4 Red Hat 49.2
- 5 Cloud Foundry 44.3
- 6 Koyeb 42
- 7 Canonical 40.9
- 8 GoHarbor 39.6
- 9 Portainer 37.1
- 10 IBM 36.3
All 30 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in
the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of
24 October 2026, across 31984
providers, using the same computation served by the
APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of
5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
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