Telepresence website screenshot

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 documentation, changelog, and 8 more developer resources.

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16.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 16.2/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 2.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
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
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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 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 GitHubRepository
GitHubRepository
 Code of Conduct
Code of Conduct
 SDKs
SDKs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Security
Security

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog
ChangeLog

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License
License

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: telepresence
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: '2026-05-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- CNCF
- Developer Tools
- Kubernetes
- Local Development
- Microservices
- Open Source
apis: []
common:
- 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