Porter

A package manager for Kubernetes that uses Cloud Native Application Bundles (CNAB) to package and deploy applications along with their dependencies and configuration.

Porter publishes 7 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Bundles API, CredentialSets API, Installations API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Cloud-Native, CNAB, DevOps, Kubernetes, and Package Manager.

The Porter catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Porter’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, getting-started guide, engineering blog, and 19 more developer resources.

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41.0/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Front door AI 3/6 light Heartbeat 70/100 alive self hosted · Apache-2.0 Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

Cloud-Native CNAB DevOps Kubernetes Package Manager

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Software Release & Deployment Management

BC-4210

CredentialSetsInstallationsParameterSets

POST /v1/credentialsets POST /v1/installations POST /v1/parametersets

Kin Score

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

Composite quality — 41.0/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.4 / 16

Developer Ergonomics 5.9 / 13

Access Clarity 0.7 / 13

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 8

Contract Governance 0.8 / 8

Discoverability 3.1 / 7

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Open Source Surface 10.0 / 10

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 21/100 · 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 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

9 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 9.8 — up to +10.8 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/porter/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/porter 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
OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Holders	standard	40.9 (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 7

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

Porter Mixins API

Extension interface for building and using mixins, which are the building blocks for authoring Porter bundles. Mixins provide pre-built integrations for interacting with tools a...

Porter Plugins API

Plugin interface that allows extending Porter's core functionality, such as storing installation data, credential sets, and parameter sets in external systems like cloud storage...

Porter Bundles API

Operations for searching, inspecting, and managing CNAB bundles published to OCI registries.

Porter CredentialSets API

Operations for managing credential sets that supply secret values to bundle executions.

Porter Installations API

Operations for managing bundle installations, including install, upgrade, invoke, and uninstall lifecycle actions.

Porter ParameterSets API

Operations for managing parameter sets that supply configuration values to bundle executions.

Porter Runs API

Operations for querying the history of bundle action executions and their outputs.

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Open Collections 6

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

Porter Bundle API

OPEN COLLECTION

Porter Bundle Bundles API

OPEN COLLECTION

Porter Bundle Bundles CredentialSets API

OPEN COLLECTION

Porter Bundle Bundles Installations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Porter Bundle Bundles ParameterSets API

OPEN COLLECTION

Porter Bundle Bundles Runs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Porter API pricing

Not yet checked against Porter's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-05 from porter.sh/; 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

Upstream OCI registry pulls: governed by upstream OCI registry (Docker Hub, GHCR, ACR, ECR, etc.) varies

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

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Porter Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Porter Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

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

Porter

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Porter Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Porter Context

0 classes · 9 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Porter — jsonschema rules

6 rules · 4 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Porter Bundle Manifest

23 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

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

Porter Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Porter Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Porter Agentic Access

19 operations · 8 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

ContributionGuide

ContributionGuide

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Documentation

Documentation

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 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityPolicy

SecurityPolicy

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

IssueTracker

Releases

Community

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

License

License

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: porter
name: Porter
description: A package manager for Kubernetes that uses Cloud Native Application Bundles (CNAB) to package and deploy applications
  along with their dependencies and configuration.
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/porter.png
tags:
- Cloud-Native
- CNAB
- DevOps
- Kubernetes
- Package Manager
tags_raw:
- Cloud Native
- CNAB
- DevOps
- Kubernetes
- Package Manager
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/porter/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2025'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: porter:porter-mixins-api
  name: Porter Mixins API
  description: Extension interface for building and using mixins, which are the building blocks for authoring Porter bundles.
    Mixins provide pre-built integrations for interacting with tools and services such as Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and
    Docker Compose from within a bundle action.
  humanURL: https://porter.sh/mixins/
  tags:
  - CNAB
  - DevOps
  - Extensions
  - Mixins
  - Plugins
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://porter.sh/mixins/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://porter.sh/docs/development/dev-a-mixin/
- aid: porter:porter-plugins-api
  name: Porter Plugins API
  description: Plugin interface that allows extending Porter's core functionality, such as storing installation data, credential
    sets, and parameter sets in external systems like cloud storage instead of the local filesystem. Plugins reimplement Porter's
    default behavior to integrate with enterprise or cloud infrastructure.
  humanURL: https://porter.sh/docs/introduction/concepts-and-components/mixins-vs-plugins/
  tags:
  - Cloud-Native
  - CNAB
  - DevOps
  - Extensions
  - Plugins
  tags_raw:
  - Cloud Native
  - CNAB
  - DevOps
  - Extensions
  - Plugins
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://porter.sh/docs/introduction/concepts-and-components/mixins-vs-plugins/
- aid: porter:porter-bundles-api
  name: Porter Bundles API
  description: Operations for searching, inspecting, and managing CNAB bundles published to OCI registries.
  humanURL: https://porter.sh/docs/
  tags:
  - Bundles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/porter-bundles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://porter.sh/docs/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://porter.sh/docs/learn/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/porter-manifest-schema.json
- aid: porter:porter-credentialsets-api
  name: Porter CredentialSets API
  description: Operations for managing credential sets that supply secret values to bundle executions.
  humanURL: https://porter.sh/docs/
  tags:
  - Credential Sets
  tags_raw:
  - CredentialSets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/porter-credentialsets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://porter.sh/docs/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://porter.sh/docs/learn/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/porter-manifest-schema.json
- aid: porter:porter-installations-api
  name: Porter Installations API
  description: Operations for managing bundle installations, including install, upgrade, invoke, and uninstall lifecycle actions.
  humanURL: https://porter.sh/docs/
  tags:
  - Installations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/porter-installations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://porter.sh/docs/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://porter.sh/docs/learn/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/porter-manifest-schema.json
- aid: porter:porter-parametersets-api
  name: Porter ParameterSets API
  description: Operations for managing parameter sets that supply configuration values to bundle executions.
  humanURL: https://porter.sh/docs/
  tags:
  - Parameter Sets
  tags_raw:
  - ParameterSets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/porter-parametersets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://porter.sh/docs/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://porter.sh/docs/learn/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/porter-manifest-schema.json
- aid: porter:porter-runs-api
  name: Porter Runs API
  description: Operations for querying the history of bundle action executions and their outputs.
  humanURL: https://porter.sh/docs/
  tags:
  - Runs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/porter-runs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://porter.sh/docs/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://porter.sh/docs/learn/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/porter-manifest-schema.json
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/porter-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/porter-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/porter-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/porter-capability-edges.yml
  name: Porter Business Capability Map
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/getporter/porter/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/getporter/porter/releases
- type: SecurityPolicy
  url: https://github.com/getporter/porter/blob/main/SECURITY.md
- type: CodeOfConduct
  url: https://github.com/getporter/porter/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/getporter/porter/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: License
  name: Apache-2.0
  url: https://github.com/getporter/porter/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/porter-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/porter-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/porter-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/porterrun
- type: Website
  url: https://porter.sh/
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/porter-context.jsonld
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/porter-manifest-schema.json
- type: Documentation
  url: https://porter.sh/docs/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://porter.sh/docs/learn/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/getporter
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/getporter/porter
- type: Community
  url: https://porter.sh/community/
- type: Integrations
  url: https://porter.sh/docs/integrations/
- type: Blog
  url: https://porter.sh/blog/index.xml
integrations:
- name: Azure Plugin
- name: Filesystem Secrets Plugin
- name: Hashicorp Plugin
- name: Host Secrets Plugin
- name: Kubernetes Plugin
- name: MongoDB Docker Storage Plugin
- name: MongoDB Storage Plugin
- name: Plugin Types
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Porter API — frequently asked questions

Does Porter have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 7 APIs from Porter, including Porter Mixins API, Porter Plugins API and Porter Bundles API, and 4 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Porter API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Porter, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Porter API?

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

How much does the Porter API cost?

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

Is the Porter API ready for AI agents?

Porter has a Kin Score of 41.0 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 20.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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