# CNCF

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cncf/  
**Website:** https://www.cncf.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is part of the Linux Foundation and hosts critical components of the global cloud-native technology infrastructure - including Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, etcd, OpenTelemetry, CloudEvents, gRPC, and CNI. CNCF stewards open-source project governance and publishes the Cloud Native Interactive Landscape, a community-curated dataset (landscape.yml) of cloud-native projects and products with metadata such as GitHub stars, contributor counts, funding, and headquarters location.

## Kin Score — 13.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 13.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape** — The CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape is the canonical map of the cloud-native ecosystem. The landscape is generated daily from landscape.yml and enriched with data from C...
- **CNCF Hosted Projects (Standards Steward)** — CNCF stewards an open-source project portfolio whose APIs underpin much of modern cloud infrastructure - Kubernetes API, OpenTelemetry, CloudEvents, gRPC, CNI, CSI, OCI image an...

## Security (1)

- **Cncf Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Cncf Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Cloud-Native, Containers, Kubernetes, Open-Source, Standards

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/cncf/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.