Telepresence

Telepresence is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox open source tool that enables fast local development for Kubernetes and OpenShift microservices. It creates a bidirectional network bridge between a developer's local machine and a remote Kubernetes cluster, allowing services to run locally while connecting to remote dependencies. Originally created by Ambassador Labs, Telepresence lets developers intercept traffic destined for specific cluster workloads and route it to their local environment for testing and debugging.

Telepresence is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include CNCF, Developer Tools, Kubernetes, Local Development, and Microservices.

The Telepresence catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Telepresence’s developer surface includes engineering blog, documentation, changelog, and 14 more developer resources.

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18.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent self hosted · Apache-2.0 Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

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CNCF Developer Tools Kubernetes Local Development Microservices Open Source

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scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 18.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 1.3 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 2.9 / 15

Access Clarity 0.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 10

Contract Governance 0.0 / 9

Discoverability 3.6 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Open Source Surface 10.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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

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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 could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because both conditional facets apply and carry 25 points together. 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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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.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Telepresence Context

3 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

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

Telepresence Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

ContributionGuide

ContributionGuide

Documentation

Documentation

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

CodeOfConduct

CodeOfConduct

GitHubOrganization

GitHubRepository

Code of Conduct

SDKs

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityPolicy

SecurityPolicy

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Security

Security

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker

IssueTracker

Releases

Releases

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: telepresence
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  license: Apache-2.0
  license_evidence:
    repo: telepresenceio/telepresence
    spdx: Apache-2.0
    stars: 7308
  open_source: true
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Self-hosted open source · you run it yourself
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - repository-license
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/telepresence.png
name: Telepresence
description: Telepresence is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox open source tool that enables fast local development
  for Kubernetes and OpenShift microservices. It creates a bidirectional network bridge between a developer's local machine
  and a remote Kubernetes cluster, allowing services to run locally while connecting to remote dependencies. Originally created
  by Ambassador Labs, Telepresence lets developers intercept traffic destined for specific cluster workloads and route it
  to their local environment for testing and debugging.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/telepresence/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-docs-platform: docusaurus
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-17
tags:
- CNCF
- Developer Tools
- Kubernetes
- Local Development
- Microservices
- Open Source
tags_raw:
- CNCF
- Developer Tools
- Kubernetes
- Local Development
- Microservices
- Open Source
- Open-Source
apis: []
common:
- url: https://telepresence.io/blog
  type: Blog
- url: https://telepresence.io/blog/rss.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/telepresenceio/telepresence/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/telepresenceio/telepresence/releases
- type: SecurityPolicy
  url: https://github.com/telepresenceio/telepresence/blob/release/v2/SECURITY.md
- type: CodeOfConduct
  url: https://github.com/telepresenceio/telepresence/blob/release/v2/CODE-OF-CONDUCT.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/telepresenceio/telepresence/blob/release/v2/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/telepresence-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://telepresence.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://telepresence.io/docs
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/telepresenceio
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/telepresenceio/telepresence
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://github.com/telepresenceio/telepresence/blob/main/CHANGELOG.yml
- type: License
  url: https://github.com/telepresenceio/telepresence/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: Code of Conduct
  url: https://github.com/telepresenceio/telepresence/blob/main/CODE-OF-CONDUCT.md
- type: Security
  url: https://github.com/telepresenceio/telepresence/blob/main/SECURITY.md
- type: SDKs
  url: https://github.com/telepresenceio/telepresence
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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