Kubernetes Services

Kubernetes Services provide an abstract way to expose an application running on a set of Pods as a network service. They provide stable networking endpoints and load balancing across pod replicas in a Kubernetes cluster.

Kubernetes Services publishes 13 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including EndpointSlices API, Gateway API, GatewayClass API, and 10 more. Tagged areas include Container Orchestration, Kubernetes, Load Balancing, Networking, and Service Discovery.

The Kubernetes Services catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification, 1 JSON-LD context, and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Kubernetes Services’ developer surface includes authentication, documentation, getting-started guide, engineering blog, changelog, and 20 more developer resources.

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5 published contracts

Container Orchestration Kubernetes Load Balancing Networking Service Discovery

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

EndpointSlicesGRPCRouteGatewayGatewayClassHTTPRouteIngress

POST /apis/discovery.k8s.io/v1/namespaces/{namespace}/endpointslices GET /api/v1/services POST /apis/gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1/namespaces/{namespace}/grpcroutes POST /api/v1/namespaces/{namespace}/services

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 42.1/100 · developing

Contract Quality 10.8 / 16

Developer Ergonomics 5.9 / 13

Access Clarity 0.7 / 13

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 8

Contract Governance 1.1 / 8

Discoverability 4.1 / 7

Regulatory Posture 3.4 / 15

Open Source Surface 6.5 / 10

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 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 6 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 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.

Open Source Surface applies to this provider. This product is open source and we read its repository directly, so Open Source Surface carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from what the repository actually publishes — a security policy, a contribution guide, a release history, a code of conduct — read live from the provider rather than inferred from our own catalog pointers. This facet adds; nothing was taken away to make room for it. An open-source project is not excused from the commercial facets, because exemption would strip it of the points it does earn. If we have the wrong repository, or this product is not open source, say so on your provider repo and we will drop the facet rather than have you publish against 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 65 points between them, because both conditional facets apply and carry 35 points together. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 65% 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 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 45.2 — up to +11.0 composite points
Contract Governance scores 13.6 — up to +10.4 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.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/kubernetes-services/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/kubernetes-services to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

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
Network Edge (CDN, networking, peering, edge compute)	undeclared	-	-	-
Cisco DevNet Ecosystem (builders on Meraki, Catalyst, ISE, ThousandEyes, Splunk)	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)

Mutual TLS

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 13

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

Kubernetes DNS for Services and Pods

Kubernetes provides DNS-based service discovery for Services and Pods within a cluster. DNS records are automatically created for Services, allowing workloads to locate services...

Kubernetes Services EndpointSlices API

EndpointSlice resources tracking IP addresses, ports, and readiness of pods backing a Service, with topology-aware routing support.

Kubernetes Services Gateway API

Gateway resources instantiating traffic-handling infrastructure such as cloud load balancers or in-cluster proxies, with listeners for each protocol.

Kubernetes Services GatewayClass API

GatewayClass resources defining a class of gateway implementations. Cluster-scoped resources that link to a specific ingress or mesh controller.

Kubernetes Services GRPCRoute API

GRPCRoute resources defining gRPC routing rules from Gateway listeners to backend services with service and method name matching.

Kubernetes Services HTTPRoute API

HTTPRoute resources defining HTTP and HTTPS routing rules from Gateway listeners to backend services with support for path, header, and query parameter matching.

Kubernetes Services Ingress API

Ingress resources defining HTTP and HTTPS routing rules from external traffic to cluster services, with TLS termination support.

Kubernetes Services IngressClass API

IngressClass resources identifying which ingress controller should fulfill an Ingress resource.

Kubernetes Services IngressStatus API

Status subresource for Ingress objects, reporting load balancer IP or hostname assignments from the ingress controller.

Kubernetes Services Namespaces API

The Namespaces API from Kubernetes Services — 2 operation(s) for namespaces.

Kubernetes Services API

The Services API from Kubernetes Services — 1 operation(s) for services.

Kubernetes Services Network Policy API

NetworkPolicy resources controlling Pod-level traffic ingress and egress based on label selectors, namespace selectors, and IP CIDR blocks.

Kubernetes Services Service Status API

Status subresource operations for Services, used to update load balancer provisioning state and conditions.

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Kubernetes Services API pricing

Not yet checked against Kubernetes Services's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-05 from kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Open Source freemium	Free

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

kube-apiserver Service CRUD (control plane): governed by API Priority and Fairness PriorityLevelConfiguration concurrent requests
Service data-plane throughput: depends on cloud-provider LB type / instance class — see provider quotas varies

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Kubernetes Services's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Kubernetes Services Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Kubernetes Services Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

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

Kubernetes Services

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Kubernetes Services Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Kubernetes Services Watch Events

The Kubernetes Services watch API provides streaming event notifications for networking resources including Services, Ingresses, EndpointSlices, NetworkPolicies, and Gateway API...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Kubernetes Services Context

0 classes · 28 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Kubernetes Services — asyncapi rules

8 rules · 1 errors 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

Kubernetes Services — jsonschema rules

6 rules · 4 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceStatus

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Status

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Kubernetes Services Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Security Posture 3

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

Kubernetes Services Authentication

http/mutualTLS · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Kubernetes Services Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Kubernetes Services Vulnerability Disclosure

no policy recorded

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Kubernetes Services Agentic Access

52 operations · 29 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

ContributionGuide

Documentation

Reference

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

CodeOfConduct

CodeOfConduct

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

GitHubRepository

GitHubRepository

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityPolicy

SecurityPolicy

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

IssueTracker

Releases

Community

ChangeLog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

License

License

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: kubernetes-services
name: Kubernetes Services
description: Kubernetes Services provide an abstract way to expose an application running on a set of Pods as a network service.
  They provide stable networking endpoints and load balancing across pod replicas in a Kubernetes cluster.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  license: Apache-2.0
  open_source: true
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Self-hosted open source · you run it yourself
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Free · 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/kubernetes-services.png
tags:
- Container Orchestration
- Kubernetes
- Load Balancing
- Networking
- Service Discovery
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kubernetes-services/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2025-01-01'
modified: '2026-09-16'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: kubernetes-services:kubernetes-dns
  name: Kubernetes DNS for Services and Pods
  description: Kubernetes provides DNS-based service discovery for Services and Pods within a cluster. DNS records are automatically
    created for Services, allowing workloads to locate services by name rather than by IP address.
  humanURL: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/dns-pod-service/
  tags:
  - DNS
  - Kubernetes
  - Networking
  - Service Discovery
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/dns-pod-service/
- aid: kubernetes-services:kubernetes-services-endpointslices-api
  name: Kubernetes Services EndpointSlices API
  description: EndpointSlice resources tracking IP addresses, ports, and readiness of pods backing a Service, with topology-aware
    routing support.
  humanURL: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  tags:
  - EndpointSlices
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kubernetes-services-endpointslices-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/service-v1/
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/kubernetes-services-watch-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/kubernetes-services-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/ingress-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/gateway/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/endpoint-slices/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/endpoint-slice-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/network-policies/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/policy-resources/network-policy-v1/
- aid: kubernetes-services:kubernetes-services-gateway-api
  name: Kubernetes Services Gateway API
  description: Gateway resources instantiating traffic-handling infrastructure such as cloud load balancers or in-cluster
    proxies, with listeners for each protocol.
  humanURL: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  tags:
  - Gateways
  tags_raw:
  - Gateway
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kubernetes-services-gateway-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/service-v1/
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/kubernetes-services-watch-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/kubernetes-services-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/ingress-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/gateway/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/endpoint-slices/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/endpoint-slice-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/network-policies/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/policy-resources/network-policy-v1/
- aid: kubernetes-services:kubernetes-services-gatewayclass-api
  name: Kubernetes Services GatewayClass API
  description: GatewayClass resources defining a class of gateway implementations. Cluster-scoped resources that link to a
    specific ingress or mesh controller.
  humanURL: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  tags:
  - GatewayClass
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kubernetes-services-gatewayclass-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/service-v1/
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/kubernetes-services-watch-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/kubernetes-services-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/ingress-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/gateway/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/endpoint-slices/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/endpoint-slice-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/network-policies/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/policy-resources/network-policy-v1/
- aid: kubernetes-services:kubernetes-services-grpcroute-api
  name: Kubernetes Services GRPCRoute API
  description: GRPCRoute resources defining gRPC routing rules from Gateway listeners to backend services with service and
    method name matching.
  humanURL: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  tags:
  - GRPCRoute
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kubernetes-services-grpcroute-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/service-v1/
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/kubernetes-services-watch-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/kubernetes-services-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/ingress-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/gateway/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/endpoint-slices/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/endpoint-slice-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/network-policies/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/policy-resources/network-policy-v1/
- aid: kubernetes-services:kubernetes-services-httproute-api
  name: Kubernetes Services HTTPRoute API
  description: HTTPRoute resources defining HTTP and HTTPS routing rules from Gateway listeners to backend services with support
    for path, header, and query parameter matching.
  humanURL: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  tags:
  - HTTPRoute
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kubernetes-services-httproute-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/service-v1/
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/kubernetes-services-watch-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/kubernetes-services-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/ingress-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/gateway/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/endpoint-slices/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/endpoint-slice-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/network-policies/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/policy-resources/network-policy-v1/
- aid: kubernetes-services:kubernetes-services-ingress-api
  name: Kubernetes Services Ingress API
  description: Ingress resources defining HTTP and HTTPS routing rules from external traffic to cluster services, with TLS
    termination support.
  humanURL: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  tags:
  - Ingress
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kubernetes-services-ingress-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/service-v1/
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/kubernetes-services-watch-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/kubernetes-services-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/ingress-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/gateway/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/endpoint-slices/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/endpoint-slice-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/network-policies/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/policy-resources/network-policy-v1/
- aid: kubernetes-services:kubernetes-services-ingressclass-api
  name: Kubernetes Services IngressClass API
  description: IngressClass resources identifying which ingress controller should fulfill an Ingress resource.
  humanURL: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  tags:
  - IngressClass
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kubernetes-services-ingressclass-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/service-v1/
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/kubernetes-services-watch-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/kubernetes-services-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/ingress-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/gateway/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/endpoint-slices/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/endpoint-slice-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/network-policies/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/policy-resources/network-policy-v1/
- aid: kubernetes-services:kubernetes-services-ingressstatus-api
  name: Kubernetes Services IngressStatus API
  description: Status subresource for Ingress objects, reporting load balancer IP or hostname assignments from the ingress
    controller.
  humanURL: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  tags:
  - IngressStatus
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kubernetes-services-ingressstatus-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/service-v1/
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/kubernetes-services-watch-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/kubernetes-services-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/ingress-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/gateway/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/endpoint-slices/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/endpoint-slice-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/network-policies/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/policy-resources/network-policy-v1/
- aid: kubernetes-services:kubernetes-services-namespaces-api
  name: Kubernetes Services Namespaces API
  description: The Namespaces API from Kubernetes Services — 2 operation(s) for namespaces.
  humanURL: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  tags:
  - Namespaces
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kubernetes-services-namespaces-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/service-v1/
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/kubernetes-services-watch-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/kubernetes-services-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/ingress-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/gateway/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/endpoint-slices/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/endpoint-slice-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/network-policies/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/policy-resources/network-policy-v1/
- aid: kubernetes-services:kubernetes-services-services-api
  name: Kubernetes Services API
  description: The Services API from Kubernetes Services — 1 operation(s) for services.
  humanURL: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  tags:
  - Services
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kubernetes-services-services-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/service-v1/
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/kubernetes-services-watch-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/kubernetes-services-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/ingress-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/gateway/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/endpoint-slices/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/endpoint-slice-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/network-policies/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/policy-resources/network-policy-v1/
- aid: kubernetes-services:kubernetes-services-network-policy-api
  name: Kubernetes Services Network Policy API
  description: NetworkPolicy resources controlling Pod-level traffic ingress and egress based on label selectors, namespace
    selectors, and IP CIDR blocks.
  humanURL: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/dns-pod-service/
  tags:
  - Network Policy
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kubernetes-services-network-policy-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/service-v1/
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/kubernetes-services-watch-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/kubernetes-services-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/ingress-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/gateway/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/endpoint-slices/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/endpoint-slice-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/network-policies/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/policy-resources/network-policy-v1/
- aid: kubernetes-services:kubernetes-services-service-status-api
  name: Kubernetes Services Service Status API
  description: Status subresource operations for Services, used to update load balancer provisioning state and conditions.
  humanURL: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/dns-pod-service/
  tags:
  - Service Status
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kubernetes-services-service-status-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/service-v1/
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/kubernetes-services-watch-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/kubernetes-services-schema.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/ingress-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/gateway/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/endpoint-slices/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/endpoint-slice-v1/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/network-policies/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/policy-resources/network-policy-v1/
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/kubernetes-services-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/kubernetes-services-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/kubernetes-services-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/kubernetes-services-capability-edges.yml
  name: Kubernetes Services Business Capability Map
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/releases
- type: SecurityPolicy
  url: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/.github/SECURITY.md
- type: CodeOfConduct
  url: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: License
  name: Apache-2.0
  url: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/kubernetes-services-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/kubernetes-services-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kubernetes-services-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/kubernetes-services-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://kubernetes.io
- type: Documentation
  url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/kubernetes-basics/expose/expose-intro/
- type: Reference
  url: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/service-resources/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/kubernetes
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
- type: Blog
  url: https://kubernetes.io/blog/
- type: Community
  url: https://kubernetes.io/community/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://kubernetes.io/releases/
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/kubernetes-services-schema.json
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/kubernetes-services-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Kubernetes Services API — frequently asked questions

Does Kubernetes Services have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 13 APIs from Kubernetes Services, including Kubernetes DNS for Services and Pods, Kubernetes Services EndpointSlices API and Kubernetes Services Gateway API, and 10 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Kubernetes Services API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 12 OpenAPI specifications for Kubernetes Services, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Kubernetes Services API?

Kubernetes Services documents its authentication (http/mutualTLS · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Kubernetes Services Authentication.

How much does the Kubernetes Services API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Kubernetes Services, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Kubernetes Services API ready for AI agents?

Kubernetes Services has a Kin Score of 42.1 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 30.5 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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