IBM Cloud Kubernetes

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes offering that delivers powerful tools, an intuitive user experience, and built-in security for rapid delivery of applications that can be bound to cloud services related to IBM Watson, IoT, DevOps, and data analytics.

IBM Cloud Kubernetes publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Cloud, Containers, IBM, Kubernetes, and Orchestration.

The IBM Cloud Kubernetes catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

IBM Cloud Kubernetes’ developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, pricing, engineering blog, signup flow, and 7 more developer resources.

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22.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessFreemium

1 APIs

Cloud Containers IBM Kubernetes Orchestration

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 22.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20

Access Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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 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 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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APIs 1

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

IBM Cloud Kubernetes

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes offering that delivers powerful tools, an intuitive user experience, and built-in security for rapid delivery of application...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Ibm Cloud Kubernetes Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ibm Cloud Kubernetes Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Ibm Cloud Kubernetes Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

IBM Cloud Kubernetes API Rules

0 rules ·

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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

Ibm Cloud Kubernetes Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Ibm Cloud Kubernetes Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Signup

Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Rules

Rules

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

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

ParentCompany

ParentCompany

Source (apis.yml)

aid: ibm-cloud-kubernetes
name: IBM Cloud Kubernetes
description: IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes offering that delivers powerful tools, an intuitive user
  experience, and built-in security for rapid delivery of applications that can be bound to cloud services related to IBM
  Watson, IoT, DevOps, and data analytics.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ibm-cloud-kubernetes.png
tags:
- Cloud
- Containers
- IBM
- Kubernetes
- Orchestration
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ibm-cloud-kubernetes/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-08-21'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: ibm-cloud-kubernetes:ibm-cloud-kubernetes
  name: IBM Cloud Kubernetes
  description: IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes offering that delivers powerful tools, an intuitive user
    experience, and built-in security for rapid delivery of applications that can be bound to cloud services related to IBM
    Watson, IoT, DevOps, and data analytics.
  humanURL: https://cloud.ibm.com/kubernetes/catalog/create
  tags:
  - Cloud
  - Containers
  - Kubernetes
  - Orchestration
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers?topic=containers-getting-started
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://cloud.ibm.com/kubernetes/catalog/create
common:
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/ibm/
  name: Ibm
  x-relationship: product
  x-generated-by: ibm-family:2026-08-21
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/ibm-cloud-kubernetes-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ibm-cloud-kubernetes-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://cloud.ibm.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers?topic=containers-getting-started
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/IBM-Cloud
- type: Pricing
  url: https://cloud.ibm.com/kubernetes/catalog/create
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.ibm.com/blog/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://cloud.ibm.com/status
- type: Signup
  url: https://cloud.ibm.com/registration
- type: Rules
  url: rules/ibm-cloud-kubernetes-rules.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: ibm
x-relationship: product

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