Lakekeeper

Lakekeeper is an open-source Apache Iceberg REST Catalog written in Rust and maintained by Vakamo. It manages Iceberg tables, views and namespaces for query engines such as Apache Spark, Trino, StarRocks, DuckDB, Athena, Flink and PyIceberg, vending short-lived, prefix-scoped storage credentials for S3, GCS, Azure ADLS and Microsoft OneLake/Fabric instead of handing long-lived keys to engines. It exposes three distinct HTTP APIs — the standard Iceberg REST Catalog API at /catalog/v1, a Lakekeeper-specific Management API at /management/v1 for bootstrapping, projects, warehouses, users, roles, tasks and fine-grained permissions, and a Data API at /lakekeeper/v1 that catalogs non-Iceberg generic tables such as Lance, Delta and Parquet. Authorization is pluggable (OpenFGA for RBAC/ ReBAC, Open Policy Agent bridge, Cedar in the commercial Lakekeeper+ distribution), authentication is OIDC/OAuth2 or Kubernetes service accounts, and change events are published as CloudEvents to Kafka or NATS. Lakekeeper is self-hosted software under Apache 2.0; commercial Lakekeeper+ and Lakekeeper Cloud are sold by Vakamo.

Lakekeeper publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Management API, Iceberg REST Catalog API, Generic Table (Data) API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Apache Iceberg, Data Catalog, Lakehouse, Open Source, and Rust.

The Lakekeeper catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Lakekeeper’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, changelog, and 24 more developer resources.

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4 APIs
Apache IcebergData CatalogLakehouseOpen SourceRustData GovernanceAccess ControlObject StorageMetadataSelf-HostedOpenFGAData Engineering

APIs 4

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

Lakekeeper Management API

Lakekeeper-specific administration API served under /management/v1 with no equivalent in the Iceberg REST specification: bootstrapping the server, creating and configuring Wareh...

Lakekeeper Iceberg REST Catalog API

The standard Apache Iceberg REST Catalog API served by Lakekeeper under /catalog/v1. Query engines (Spark, Trino, StarRocks, Flink, PyIceberg, DuckDB, Athena) speak this API to ...

Lakekeeper Generic Table (Data) API

Lakekeeper's data-plane API served under /lakekeeper/v1, cataloging non-Iceberg table formats — Lance, Delta, CSV, Parquet — alongside Iceberg tables in the same Warehouse and N...

Lakekeeper+ Management API

The Management API of Lakekeeper+, the commercial distribution published by Vakamo under the Vakamo Enterprise License. A superset of the open-source Management API — 131 operat...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Lakekeeper Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Lakekeeper Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Event Specifications 1

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

Lakekeeper Events

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 2

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

Lakekeeper Authentication

http/oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Lakekeeper Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Lakekeeper Scopes

1 scope · clientCredentials

1 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 Sandbox
Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 Idempotency
Idempotency
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 DataModel
DataModel
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conformance
Conformance

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 Packages
Packages
 SDKs
SDKs
 CLI
CLI

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication
 OAuthScopes
OAuthScopes

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog
 RateLimits
RateLimits
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 Plans
Plans

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay
Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: lakekeeper
name: Lakekeeper
description: Lakekeeper is an open-source Apache Iceberg REST Catalog written in Rust and maintained by Vakamo. It manages
  Iceberg tables, views and namespaces for query engines such as Apache Spark, Trino, StarRocks, DuckDB, Athena, Flink and
  PyIceberg, vending short-lived, prefix-scoped storage credentials for S3, GCS, Azure ADLS and Microsoft OneLake/Fabric instead
  of handing long-lived keys to engines. It exposes three distinct HTTP APIs — the standard Iceberg REST Catalog API at /catalog/v1,
  a Lakekeeper-specific Management API at /management/v1 for bootstrapping, projects, warehouses, users, roles, tasks and
  fine-grained permissions, and a Data API at /lakekeeper/v1 that catalogs non-Iceberg generic tables such as Lance, Delta
  and Parquet. Authorization is pluggable (OpenFGA for RBAC/ ReBAC, Open Policy Agent bridge, Cedar in the commercial Lakekeeper+
  distribution), authentication is OIDC/OAuth2 or Kubernetes service accounts, and change events are published as CloudEvents
  to Kafka or NATS. Lakekeeper is self-hosted software under Apache 2.0; commercial Lakekeeper+ and Lakekeeper Cloud are sold
  by Vakamo.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lakekeeper/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/assets/logos/LAKEKEEPER_IMAGE_TEXT_SIDE.svg
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:self-hosted-agent-stack
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-27'
modified: '2026-08-27'
tags:
- Apache Iceberg
- Data Catalog
- Lakehouse
- Open Source
- Rust
- Data Governance
- Access Control
- Object Storage
- Metadata
- Self-Hosted
- OpenFGA
- Data Engineering
tags_raw:
- apache-iceberg
- data-catalog
- lakehouse
- open-source
- rust
- data-governance
- access-control
- object-storage
- metadata
- self-hosted
- openfga
- data-engineering
apis:
- name: Lakekeeper Management API
  description: 'Lakekeeper-specific administration API served under /management/v1 with no equivalent in the Iceberg REST
    specification: bootstrapping the server, creating and configuring Warehouses (storage profiles, storage credentials, soft-delete/undrop
    settings, activation status, protection and format-version policy), managing Projects, Users, Roles and background Tasks,
    and — when the OpenFGA authorizer is enabled — reading and writing fine-grained permissions. This is the API the Lakekeeper
    Console UI and platform automation call. 120 operations across 92 paths, authenticated with an OIDC/OAuth2 bearer JWT.'
  humanURL: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/docs/latest/api/management/
  baseURL: '{scheme}://{host}/management/v1'
  tags:
  - Data Catalog
  - Data Governance
  - Access Control
  - Apache Iceberg
  - Self-Hosted
  tags_raw:
  - data-catalog
  - data-governance
  - access-control
  - apache-iceberg
  - self-hosted
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lakekeeper-management-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/docs/latest/api-overview/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/docs/latest/api/management/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/lakekeeper-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/lakekeeper-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/lakekeeper-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/lakekeeper-data-model.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/lakekeeper-management-api-overlay.yaml
- name: Lakekeeper Iceberg REST Catalog API
  description: The standard Apache Iceberg REST Catalog API served by Lakekeeper under /catalog/v1. Query engines (Spark,
    Trino, StarRocks, Flink, PyIceberg, DuckDB, Athena) speak this API to list and create namespaces, create/load/update/drop
    tables and views, commit metadata transactions, plan and fetch scans, register existing tables, and obtain vended short-lived
    storage credentials. Lakekeeper implements the specification as published by the Apache Software Foundation, including
    Idempotency-Key support on mutating requests.
  humanURL: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/docs/latest/api/catalog/
  baseURL: '{scheme}://{host}/catalog'
  tags:
  - Apache Iceberg
  - Data Catalog
  - Lakehouse
  - Metadata
  - Object Storage
  tags_raw:
  - apache-iceberg
  - data-catalog
  - lakehouse
  - metadata
  - object-storage
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lakekeeper-catalog-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/docs/latest/api-overview/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/docs/latest/api/catalog/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/lakekeeper-conformance.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/lakekeeper-scopes.yml
- name: Lakekeeper Generic Table (Data) API
  description: Lakekeeper's data-plane API served under /lakekeeper/v1, cataloging non-Iceberg table formats — Lance, Delta,
    CSV, Parquet — alongside Iceberg tables in the same Warehouse and Namespace, with the same credential vending and access
    control. Six operations across four paths covering list, create, load and drop of generic tables, plus a referenced-by
    lookup. Consumed by the official pylakekeeper Python client and the Lakekeeper Java/Spark clients.
  humanURL: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/docs/latest/generic-tables/
  baseURL: '{scheme}://{host}/lakekeeper/v1'
  tags:
  - Data Catalog
  - Lakehouse
  - Metadata
  - Data Engineering
  tags_raw:
  - data-catalog
  - lakehouse
  - metadata
  - data-engineering
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lakekeeper-generic-table-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/docs/latest/generic-tables/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/docs/latest/api/generic-table/
- name: Lakekeeper+ Management API
  description: The Management API of Lakekeeper+, the commercial distribution published by Vakamo under the Vakamo Enterprise
    License. A superset of the open-source Management API — 131 operations across 101 paths — adding Cedar permission-as-code
    endpoints (permissions-cedar tag) alongside the OpenFGA permission surface, plus enterprise features such as post-authentication
    admission gates and UI branding.
  humanURL: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/docs/latest/api/management-plus/
  baseURL: '{scheme}://{host}/management/v1'
  tags:
  - Data Governance
  - Access Control
  - Data Catalog
  - Enterprise
  tags_raw:
  - data-governance
  - access-control
  - data-catalog
  - enterprise
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lakekeeper-management-plus-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/docs/latest/api/management-plus/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://vakamo.com/pricing
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lakekeeper-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://lakekeeper.io/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/docs/latest/api-overview/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/docs/latest/api/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/getting-started/
- type: Support
  url: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/support/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/lakekeeper
- type: Blog
  url: https://vakamo.com/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://vakamo.com/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/about/license/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/about/release-notes/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: https://docs.lakekeeper.io/llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/lakekeeper-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/lakekeeper-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/lakekeeper-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/lakekeeper-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/lakekeeper-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/lakekeeper-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/lakekeeper-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/lakekeeper-conformance.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/lakekeeper-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/lakekeeper-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/lakekeeper-cli.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/lakekeeper-sandbox.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/lakekeeper-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/lakekeeper-rate-limits.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/lakekeeper-changelog.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/lakekeeper-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/lakekeeper-management-api-overlay.yaml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-27'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 30
  pass: local-v1

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