Heptio

Heptio was a Seattle-based cloud-native software company founded in 2016 by Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, two of the original co-creators of Kubernetes, to help enterprises adopt and operate Kubernetes. It built a suite of widely used open-source Kubernetes tools including Ark (later renamed Velero) for backup and restore, Sonobuoy for conformance testing, Contour as an Envoy-based ingress controller, ksonnet, and Gimbal. Heptio was acquired by VMware in November 2018 and folded into the VMware Tanzu portfolio; the company brand was retired and most of its open-source projects were migrated from the github.com/heptio organization to github.com/vmware-tanzu. This profile is preserved as a historical/defunct-company record in the API Evangelist network.

Heptio is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Open Source, Kubernetes, Cloud Native, and Containers.

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7.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyOpen SourceKubernetesCloud NativeContainersDevOpsInfrastructureDefunctAcquired

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

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

Heptio Domain Security

DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: heptio
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  trial: false
  try_now: false
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  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
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image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/heptio.png
name: Heptio
description: Heptio was a Seattle-based cloud-native software company founded in 2016 by Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, two
  of the original co-creators of Kubernetes, to help enterprises adopt and operate Kubernetes. It built a suite of widely
  used open-source Kubernetes tools including Ark (later renamed Velero) for backup and restore, Sonobuoy for conformance
  testing, Contour as an Envoy-based ingress controller, ksonnet, and Gimbal. Heptio was acquired by VMware in November 2018
  and folded into the VMware Tanzu portfolio; the company brand was retired and most of its open-source projects were migrated
  from the github.com/heptio organization to github.com/vmware-tanzu. This profile is preserved as a historical/defunct-company
  record in the API Evangelist network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/heptio/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- accel
- lightspeed-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: vmware
x-acquired-date: 2018-11
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Open Source
- Kubernetes
- Cloud Native
- Containers
- DevOps
- Infrastructure
- Defunct
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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  url: security/heptio-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/heptio
- type: Website
  url: http://www.heptio.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence