# OpenStack

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/openstack/  
**Website:** https://www.openstack.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 22

Open source cloud computing platform for building and managing public and private clouds, providing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) through a set of interrelated services including Compute (Nova), Object Storage (Swift), Block Storage (Cinder), Networking (Neutron), Identity (Keystone), Image (Glance), Orchestration (Heat), Database (Trove), DNS (Designate), and Load Balancer (Octavia). Each service exposes its own REST API; clients authenticate against Keystone and use the returned service catalog to discover per-region endpoints for the remaining services.

## Kin Score — 40.1 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 40.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 61.5 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 23.7 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (22)

- **OpenStack Networking (Neutron) API** — Neutron provides networking as a service, exposing endpoints for networks, subnets, ports, routers, floating IPs, security groups, load balancers, firewalls, and VPN-as-a-Service.
- **OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) API** — Cinder provides persistent block-level storage volumes that can be attached to Nova instances. The v3 API exposes endpoints for volumes, snapshots, backups, volume types, attach...
- **OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) API** — Swift is the OpenStack object storage service. The API exposes endpoints for accounts, containers, and objects with eventual- consistency replication, large-object support, and ...
- **OpenStack Image (Glance) API** — Glance manages disk and server images. The v2 API exposes endpoints for images, image members, image tags, image data upload/download, tasks, schemas, and metadata definitions.
- **OpenStack Orchestration (Heat) API** — Heat is the OpenStack orchestration service that manages infrastructure-as-code deployments via HOT (Heat Orchestration Template) and AWS CloudFormation-compatible templates. Th...
- **OpenStack Load Balancer (Octavia) API** — Octavia provides Load Balancing as a Service. The v2 API exposes endpoints for load balancers, listeners, pools, members, health monitors, L7 policies and rules, and TLS contain...
- **OpenStack DNS (Designate) API** — Designate is the OpenStack DNS-as-a-Service. The v2 API exposes endpoints for zones, recordsets, pools, transfers, and TSIG keys.
- **OpenStack Database (Trove) API** — Trove is the OpenStack Database-as-a-Service that provisions and manages database instances (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, MariaDB, Cassandra, etc.) on top of OpenStack.
- **OpenStack Domains API** — Domain management for multi-tenancy.
- **OpenStack Endpoints API** — Service endpoint URLs per region and interface.
- **OpenStack Flavors API** — Compute instance flavors.
- **OpenStack Groups API** — Group management.
- **OpenStack Images API** — Image references.
- **OpenStack Keypairs API** — SSH key pair management.
- **OpenStack Projects API** — Project (tenant) management.
- **OpenStack Roles API** — Role definitions and assignments.
- **OpenStack Server Actions API** — Lifecycle actions on servers.
- **OpenStack Servers API** — Compute instance management.
- **OpenStack Services API** — Service catalog entries.
- **OpenStack Tokens API** — Issue and validate authentication tokens.
- **OpenStack Users API** — User management.
- **OpenStack Versions API** — API version discovery.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Openstack Agentic Access** — 41 operations · 19 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Openstack Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Openstack Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Openstack Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Cloud Platform, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Open-Source, Virtualization, Linux Foundation

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