OpenKruise

OpenKruise is a CNCF incubating project providing advanced workload management and deployment automation for Kubernetes. It extends Kubernetes with enhanced controllers including CloneSet for efficient stateless updates, Advanced StatefulSet with in-place updates, Advanced DaemonSet, SidecarSet for sidecar container management, BroadcastJob for node-level tasks, and ImagePullJob for pre-pulling container images.

OpenKruise publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including APIS API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Cloud-Native, Controller, Deployment, Incubating, and Kubernetes.

The OpenKruise catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

OpenKruise’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 12 more developer resources.

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26.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 87/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemiumSelf serve

1 published contract

Cloud-Native Controller Deployment Incubating KubernetesWorkload ManagementCRDs

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 26.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 7.9 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 2.1 / 15

Access Clarity 1.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 3.5 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware

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 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

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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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 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% 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 Ask about this →
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) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 6.4 — up to +18.7 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 14.3 — up to +17.1 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Quality scores 42.2 — up to +14.5 composite points Ask about this →

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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
Cloud Native (Kubernetes, CNCF, FinOps)	standard	17.2 (thin)	-	-

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 1

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)

APIs 2

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

OpenKruise Workload API

OpenKruise provides Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) for advanced workload management. CloneSet offers efficient rolling updates with partition control, Advanced St...

OpenKruise APIS API

The Apis API from OpenKruise — 9 operation(s) for apis.

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

OpenKruise Workload Apis API

OPEN COLLECTION

OpenKruise Workload API

OPEN COLLECTION

OpenKruise API pricing

Not yet checked against OpenKruise's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

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Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against OpenKruise's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

OpenKruise Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

OpenKruise Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

OpenKruise Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

OpenKruise API Rules

50 rules · 48 error-severity 1 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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

OpenKruise Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

OpenKruise Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

OpenKruise Agentic Access

17 operations · 8 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

ContributionGuide

ContributionGuide

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

CodeOfConduct

CodeOfConduct

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityPolicy

SecurityPolicy

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

IssueTracker

IssueTracker

Releases

Releases

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: openkruise
name: OpenKruise
description: OpenKruise is a CNCF incubating project providing advanced workload management and deployment automation for
  Kubernetes. It extends Kubernetes with enhanced controllers including CloneSet for efficient stateless updates, Advanced
  StatefulSet with in-place updates, Advanced DaemonSet, SidecarSet for sidecar container management, BroadcastJob for node-level
  tasks, and ImagePullJob for pre-pulling container images.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - openkruise/kruise
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  try_now_blocked_by: example-domain
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/openkruise.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/openkruise/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-docs-platform: docusaurus
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- Cloud-Native
- Controller
- Deployment
- Incubating
- Kubernetes
- Workload Management
- CRDs
tags_raw:
- Cloud Native
- Controllers
- Deployment
- Incubating
- Kubernetes
- Workload Management
- CRDs
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: openkruise:openkruise-api
  name: OpenKruise Workload API
  description: OpenKruise provides Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) for advanced workload management. CloneSet
    offers efficient rolling updates with partition control, Advanced StatefulSet supports in-place container updates, Advanced
    DaemonSet provides surge and partitioned updates, SidecarSet manages sidecar containers across pods, BroadcastJob runs
    tasks on all nodes, and ImagePullJob pre-pulls images. Each controller extends standard Kubernetes capabilities with fine-grained
    deployment control through the apps.kruise.io/v1alpha1 and v1beta1 API groups.
  humanURL: https://openkruise.io/docs/
  baseURL: https://kubernetes.example.com/apis/apps.kruise.io/v1beta1
  tags:
  - Deployment
  - In-Place Updates
  - Workload Controllers
  - Kubernetes CRDs
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://openkruise.io/docs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://openkruise.io/docs/reference/cloneset-api
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/openkruise/kruise
- aid: openkruise:openkruise-apis-api
  name: OpenKruise APIS API
  description: The Apis API from OpenKruise — 9 operation(s) for apis.
  humanURL: https://openkruise.io/docs/
  baseURL: https://kubernetes.example.com/apis/apps.kruise.io/v1beta1
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - Apis
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/openkruise-apis-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/openkruise-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/openkruise-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/openkruise-finops.yml
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/openkruise/kruise/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/openkruise/kruise/releases
- type: SecurityPolicy
  url: https://github.com/openkruise/kruise/blob/master/SECURITY.md
- type: CodeOfConduct
  url: https://github.com/openkruise/kruise/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/openkruise/kruise/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/openkruise-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/openkruise-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/openkruise-authentication.yml
- type: Documentation
  name: OpenKruise Documentation
  description: Official OpenKruise documentation.
  url: https://openkruise.io/docs/
- type: Website
  name: OpenKruise Website
  url: https://openkruise.io/
- type: GitHubOrg
  name: OpenKruise GitHub
  description: Source code repository.
  url: https://github.com/openkruise
- url: https://openkruise.io/blog/rss.xml
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

OpenKruise API — frequently asked questions

Does OpenKruise have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from OpenKruise, including OpenKruise Workload API and OpenKruise APIS API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the OpenKruise API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for OpenKruise, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the OpenKruise API?

OpenKruise uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as OpenKruise Authentication.

How much does the OpenKruise API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for OpenKruise, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the OpenKruise API ready for AI agents?

OpenKruise has a Kin Score of 26.4 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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