Google Kubernetes Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a managed Kubernetes service on Google Cloud that provides a production-ready environment for deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications. It offers autopilot and standard modes, built-in security, multi-cluster management, and seamless integration with Google Cloud services.

Google Kubernetes Engine publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Clusters API, Google Kubernetes Engine API, Operations API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Cloud-Native, Containers, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and Managed Service.

The Google Kubernetes Engine catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Google Kubernetes Engine’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, pricing, engineering blog, signup flow, support, and 11 more developer resources.

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39.3/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

Cloud-Native Containers Google Cloud Kubernetes Managed Service Container Orchestration

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Information Technology Management

BC-600

ClustersGoogle Kubernetes Engine APINode Pools

POST /projects/{projectId}/locations/{location}/clusters POST /v1/{name}:setAddons POST /v1/{name}:setNetworkPolicy POST /v1/{parent}/nodePools

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 39.3/100 · developing

Contract Quality 8.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 15

Access Clarity 4.7 / 15

Operational Transparency 3.6 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 4.3 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.1 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 31.6 — up to +13.7 composite points
Contract Quality scores 46.5 — up to +13.4 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 40.5 — up to +11.9 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Cloud Native (Kubernetes, CNCF, FinOps)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Google Kubernetes Engine Clusters API

The Clusters API from Google Kubernetes Engine — 1 operation(s) for clusters.

Google Kubernetes Engine Google Kubernetes Engine API

The Google Kubernetes Engine API API from Google Kubernetes Engine — 15 operation(s) for google kubernetes engine api.

Google Kubernetes Engine Operations API

The Operations API from Google Kubernetes Engine — 1 operation(s) for operations.

Google Kubernetes Engine ServerConfig API

The ServerConfig API from Google Kubernetes Engine — 1 operation(s) for serverconfig.

Google Kubernetes Engine Node Pools API

The Node Pools API from Google Kubernetes Engine — 1 operation(s) for node pools.

Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Google Kubernetes Engine Clusters API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Kubernetes Engine Clusters Google Kubernetes Engine API API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Kubernetes Engine Clusters NodePools API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Kubernetes Engine Clusters Operations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Kubernetes Engine Clusters ServerConfig API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Kubernetes Engine API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Kubernetes Engine API pricing

Not yet checked against Google Kubernetes Engine's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Google Kubernetes Engine's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Google Kubernetes Engine Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Google Kubernetes Engine Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Google Kubernetes Engine

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Google Kubernetes Engine Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Google Kubernetes Engine API Rules

50 rules · 48 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Google Kubernetes Engine Cluster

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Google Kubernetes Engine Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Google Kubernetes Engine Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Google Kubernetes Engine Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Google Kubernetes Engine Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Google Kubernetes Engine Agentic Access

23 operations · 18 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup

Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

StatusPage

StatusPage

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Pricing

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: google-kubernetes-engine
name: Google Kubernetes Engine
description: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a managed Kubernetes service on Google Cloud that provides a production-ready
  environment for deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications. It offers autopilot and standard modes, built-in
  security, multi-cluster management, and seamless integration with Google Cloud services.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/google-kubernetes-engine.png
tags:
- Cloud-Native
- Containers
- Google Cloud
- Kubernetes
- Managed Service
- Container Orchestration
tags_raw:
- Cloud Native
- Containers
- Google Cloud
- Kubernetes
- Managed Service
- Container Orchestration
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-kubernetes-engine/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-09-16'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: google-kubernetes-engine:google-kubernetes-engine-clusters-api
  name: Google Kubernetes Engine Clusters API
  description: The Clusters API from Google Kubernetes Engine — 1 operation(s) for clusters.
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine
  tags:
  - Cluster
  tags_raw:
  - Clusters
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-kubernetes-engine-clusters-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/quickstart
- aid: google-kubernetes-engine:google-kubernetes-engine-google-kubernetes-engine-api-api
  name: Google Kubernetes Engine Google Kubernetes Engine API
  description: The Google Kubernetes Engine API API from Google Kubernetes Engine — 15 operation(s) for google kubernetes
    engine api.
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine
  tags:
  - Google Kubernetes Engine API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-kubernetes-engine-google-kubernetes-engine-api-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/quickstart
- aid: google-kubernetes-engine:google-kubernetes-engine-operations-api
  name: Google Kubernetes Engine Operations API
  description: The Operations API from Google Kubernetes Engine — 1 operation(s) for operations.
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - Operations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-kubernetes-engine-operations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/quickstart
- aid: google-kubernetes-engine:google-kubernetes-engine-serverconfig-api
  name: Google Kubernetes Engine ServerConfig API
  description: The ServerConfig API from Google Kubernetes Engine — 1 operation(s) for serverconfig.
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine
  tags:
  - ServerConfig
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-kubernetes-engine-serverconfig-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/quickstart
- aid: google-kubernetes-engine:google-kubernetes-engine-node-pools-api
  name: Google Kubernetes Engine Node Pools API
  description: The Node Pools API from Google Kubernetes Engine — 1 operation(s) for node pools.
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine
  baseURL: https://container.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Node Pools
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-kubernetes-engine-node-pools-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/quickstart
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/reference/rest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/api-server-authentication
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/gke-cluster.json
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/google-kubernetes-engine-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/google-kubernetes-engine-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/google-kubernetes-engine-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/google-kubernetes-engine-capability-edges.yml
  name: Google Kubernetes Engine Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/google-kubernetes-engine-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/google-kubernetes-engine-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/google-kubernetes-engine-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/google-kubernetes-engine-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/google-kubernetes-engine-scopes.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine
- type: Documentation
  url: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs
- type: Pricing
  url: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/pricing
- type: Blog
  url: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes
- type: Signup
  url: https://console.cloud.google.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.cloud.google.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://cloud.google.com/support
- type: Integrations
  url: https://cloud.google.com/marketplace
integrations:
- name: Become a Partner
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: google-cloud-platform
x-tags-removed:
- Orchestration

Google Kubernetes Engine API — frequently asked questions

Does Google Kubernetes Engine have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Google Kubernetes Engine, including Google Kubernetes Engine Clusters API, Google Kubernetes Engine Google Kubernetes Engine API and Google Kubernetes Engine Operations API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Google Kubernetes Engine API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Google Kubernetes Engine, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Google Kubernetes Engine API?

Google Kubernetes Engine documents its authentication (oauth2 · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Google Kubernetes Engine Authentication.

How much does the Google Kubernetes Engine API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Google Kubernetes Engine, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Google Kubernetes Engine API ready for AI agents?

Google Kubernetes Engine has a Kin Score of 39.3 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 26.3 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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get_provider_artifactsEvery artifact this provider publishes, grouped by type.
get_provider_operationsEvery operation across all of their OpenAPIs — one call instead of parsing every spec.
get_provider_toolsEvery MCP tool they ship, with the operation each wraps.
get_provider_evidenceHow each part of their score was established. Free — the basis for a claim should not sit behind it.
get_provider_ratingPRO — composite, band, trend and facet scores.
apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
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