# Contour

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/contour/  
**Website:** https://projectcontour.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 9

A Kubernetes ingress controller using Envoy proxy that provides dynamic configuration updates and advanced routing capabilities for managing external access to services in a cluster.

## Kin Score — 42.5 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 42.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 61.2 |
| Governance | 60.6 |
| Contract Governance | 60.6 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 26.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |
| Access Clarity | 13.2 |

## Agent readiness — 20.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| 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

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (9)

- **Contour Kubernetes Ingress API** — Contour's support for the standard Kubernetes Ingress v1 resource, enabling basic ingress use cases such as host-based and path-based routing to backend services. Contour watche...
- **Contour ExtensionService API** — Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition for binding gRPC-based extension services to the Contour API. ExtensionService resources allow external components to implement Contour API...
- **Contour Configuration API** — Contour's ContourConfiguration Custom Resource Definition (v1alpha1) that provides cluster-scoped configuration of a Contour instance, including ingress settings, TLS defaults, ...
- **Contour Gateway API** — Namespace-scoped resources that describe network infrastructure instances that route traffic. Each Gateway is associated with a GatewayClass and defines listeners for inbound tr...
- **Contour GatewayClass API** — Cluster-scoped resources that define the controller responsible for managing Gateways of a particular class. GatewayClass is analogous to IngressClass in the legacy Ingress API.
- **Contour HTTPProxy API** — Operations for managing Contour HTTPProxy custom resources in a Kubernetes cluster. HTTPProxy resources define ingress routing rules for HTTP and HTTPS traffic.
- **Contour HTTPRoute API** — Namespace-scoped resources that define HTTP routing rules, mapping HTTP/HTTPS requests to backend Kubernetes services based on host, path, headers, and other criteria.
- **Contour TLSCertificateDelegation API** — Operations for managing TLSCertificateDelegation resources that allow certificates in one namespace to be used by HTTPProxy resources in other namespaces.
- **Contour TLSRoute API** — Namespace-scoped resources that define TLS routing rules for routing TLS connections based on SNI hostname to backend services.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Contour Agentic Access** — 23 operations · 12 acting

## Security (1)

- **Contour Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Contour Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Envoy, Ingress Controller, Kubernetes, Networking, Proxy

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