# Volcano

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/volcano/  
**Website:** https://volcano.sh/en/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Volcano is a CNCF incubating batch processing and high-performance computing (HPC) scheduler for Kubernetes. It provides advanced scheduling capabilities including gang scheduling, fair-share scheduling, queue management, and job lifecycle management for batch workloads such as machine learning training, big data processing, and scientific computing. Volcano extends Kubernetes with three CRDs: Job (vcjob), Queue, and PodGroup.

## Kin Score — 35.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 35.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 61.9 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 26.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |
| Access Clarity | 13.2 |

## Agent readiness — 17.3 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **Volcano Jobs API** — Operations for managing Volcano Job (vcjob) custom resources. A Volcano Job defines a batch workload with one or more task groups, lifecycle policies, and scheduling requirements.
- **Volcano PodGroups API** — Operations for managing Volcano PodGroup custom resources. PodGroups define gang scheduling units with minimum availability requirements and queue assignment.
- **Volcano Queues API** — Operations for managing Volcano Queue cluster-scoped custom resources. Queues define scheduling namespaces with weight-based fair sharing, resource capacity, and state managemen...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Volcano Agentic Access** — 20 operations · 12 acting

## Security (1)

- **Volcano Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Volcano Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Batch Processing, Cloud-Native, HPC, Incubating, Kubernetes, Scheduling, Machine-Learning

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