Platform9

aid: platform9
name: Platform9
description: Platform9 is an enterprise private cloud company whose flagship Private Cloud Director is a full-featured VMware
  alternative for running virtual machines and containers on your own hardware. Built on a hardened OpenStack and Kubernetes
  foundation, it delivers high availability, live migration, dynamic resource rebalancing, and multi-tenancy, and exposes
  an OpenStack-compatible REST API (Keystone identity, Nova compute, Cinder block storage, Neutron networking, Glance images,
  and a Kubernetes service) together with the unified pcdctl CLI so teams can automate compute, storage, networking, and cluster
  operations programmatically at scale. Platform9 also offers Managed OpenStack, Managed Kubernetes, a free Community Edition,
  and the vJailbreak VMware migration tool.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://logo.clearbit.com/platform9.com
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/platform9/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- redpoint-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 10
  pass: local-v1
tags:
- Company
- Infrastructure
- Private Cloud
- OpenStack
- Kubernetes
- Virtualization
- IaaS
- VMware Migration
- Cloud Management
apis:
- name: Platform9 Private Cloud Director API
  description: OpenStack-compatible REST API for Platform9 Private Cloud Director, covering Keystone identity/authentication,
    Nova compute, Cinder block storage, Neutron networking, Glance images, and a Kubernetes service. Token-based auth via
    the X-Auth-Token header issued by Keystone v3.
  humanURL: https://docs.platform9.com/api-docs
  baseURL: https://docs.platform9.com/api-docs
  tags:
  - Private Cloud
  - OpenStack
  - Kubernetes
  - Compute
  - Storage
  - Networking
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.platform9.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.platform9.com/api-docs
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/platform9-authentication.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: http://platform9.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.platform9.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.platform9.com/private-cloud-director/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.platform9.com/api-docs
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.platform9.com/private-cloud-director/getting-started/getting-started
- type: Support
  url: https://support.platform9.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://platform9.com/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/platform9
- type: Pricing
  url: https://platform9.com/pricing/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://platform9.com/signup/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://platform9.com/privacy/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.platform9.com/
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://docs.platform9.com/private-cloud-director/getting-started/host-operating-system-support-matrix
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/platform9-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/platform9-authentication.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/platform9-cli.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/platform9-packages.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/platform9-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/platform9-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: conformance/platform9-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/platform9-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/platform9-changelog.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/platform9-domain-security.yml