# Heptio

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/heptio/  
**Website:** http://www.heptio.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.3 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (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 | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Heptio Domain Security** — DMARC

## Tags

Company, Open-Source, Kubernetes, Cloud-Native, Containers, DevOps, Infrastructure, Defunct, Acquired

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