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Cloud-Native

Score 28.0 / 100 144 providers +13 via APIs 36 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (144)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
AkuityGitOpsContinuous DeliveryKubernetesArgoCD8 APIs72.9Spectro CloudCompanyInfrastructureKubernetes3 APIs66.6
Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Grafana LokiCompanyLogsLoggingLog Aggregation3 APIs66.1Solo.ioCompanyAPI GatewayService MeshKubernetes5 APIs63.0BackstageDeveloper PortalInternal Developer PlatformSoftware CatalogOpen Source13 APIs62.8IBM WebSphereApplication ServerEnterprise JavaJ2EE7 APIs58.0GlooAPI GatewayDeveloper PortalEnvoy8 APIs57.8TigeraCompanyKubernetesNetworkingNetwork Security1 API55.9
Developing 36 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
KubeshopCompanyTestingKubernetesContinuous Integration3 APIs52.9MinIOObject StorageStorageS3 Compatible2 APIs50.9Artifact HubCNCFHelm ChartsPackage Registry1 API50.4ChoreoAi AppsAPI ManagementCI/CD3 APIs50.3EtcdConsensusDistributed SystemsGraduated1 API49.9KubernetesAutomationCNCFContainers1 API49.7Cloud Native BuildpacksCloud Native BuildpacksBuild ToolsCI/CD1 API49.0ZeebeBPMNCamundaDistributed Systems1 API48.6KnativeAuto-ScalingEvent-DrivenGraduated2 APIs48.4Apache APISIXApacheAPI GatewayKubernetes2 APIs48.3ArgoCNCFCI/CDGitOpsKubernetes3 APIs47.6CrossplaneApache 2.0CNCFCOMPOSITION1 API47.2KEDAAuto-ScalingCNCFEvent-DrivenGraduated5 APIs46.9NGINXNGINXAPI GatewayCaching1 API44.9LonghornBackupBlock StorageIncubating1 API44.6Spring FrameworkSpring FrameworkArtificial IntelligenceEnterprise3 APIs44.4EnvoyEnvoyLoad BalancingProxy3 APIs44.0CiliumeBPFKubernetesNetworking1 API43.9CubeFSCNCF GraduatedDistributed File SystemKubernetes2 APIs43.8Chaos MeshChaos EngineeringCNCFFault Injection2 APIs43.5RookBlock StorageCNCFCeph1 API42.7VolcanoBatch ProcessingHPCIncubating3 APIs42.7wasmCloudCNCFDistributed SystemsIncubating5 APIs42.5CoreDNSApache 2.0CNCFDNS2 APIs42.4Envoy GatewayAPI GatewayCNCFEnvoyKubernetes3 APIs42.4PorterCNABDevOpsKubernetes1 API42.4KubeVirtIncubatingKubernetesMigration2 APIs42.3Aqua SecurityContainersKubernetesRuntime Protection8 APIs42.1QuickwitSearchLog ManagementObservabilityFull-Text Search1 API42.1RadiusApplication PlatformInfrastructureMulti-Cloud5 APIs41.6IsovalentCompanyNetworkingKuberneteseBPF2 APIs41.1HelmHelmChartsContainer Orchestration1 API40.7SPIREAuthenticationGraduatedIdentity2 APIs40.7NATSNATSIoTMessage Broker2 APIs40.3MilvusVector DatabaseArtificial IntelligenceEmbeddingsOpen Source1 API40.0OpenTelemetryLoggingMetricsMonitoring1 API39.7
Thin 46 Limited public surface area
Argo CDArgoCDDevOpsGitOpsKubernetes1 API38.1CRI-OApache 2.0CNCFconmon2 APIs37.9Google Kubernetes EngineContainersGoogle CloudKubernetes1 API37.8VitessCNCFDatabaseDistributed Systems4 APIs37.8Axiom ControllerAnalyticsLoggingMonitoring4 APIs37.7CloudEventsCloudEventsEventGraduated1 API37.6KyvernoGovernanceKubernetesPolicy Management1 API37.4LinkerdKubernetesmTLSObservabilitySecurity3 APIs37.0FalcoeBPFRuntime SecuritySecurity1 API36.8YoukiContainersContainer RuntimeOCIRust2 APIs36.8Flatcar Container LinuxContainersImmutable InfrastructureIncubating1 API36.6IstioIstioCNCFKubernetesMicroservices3 APIs36.4PodmanContainersDevOpsOCI1 API35.6Service FabricDistributed SystemsMicroservicesContainers1 API35.5VMware TanzuContainersEnterpriseKubernetes2 APIs35.0DiagridCompanyDeveloper ToolsAI AgentsDurable Execution34.9PrometheusPrometheusMonitoringMetricsObservability2 APIs34.8Cert-ManagerCertificatesGraduatedKubernetes6 APIs34.4Notary ProjectContainer SecurityImage SigningIncubating4 APIs34.1RuncContainer RuntimeContainersLinuxOCI1 API33.9Thought MachineCompanyBankingCore BankingFinancial Services2 APIs32.2PismoBankingCard IssuingPaymentsFintech1 API32.1SPIFFEAuthenticationGraduatedIdentity1 API31.4Emissary-IngressAPI GatewayEnvoyIncubating1 API31.1WasmEdgeCNCFEdge ComputingHigh Performance5 APIs31.1Apache PulsarMessagingMulti-TenantPub-Sub1 API31.0Prisma CloudCloud SecurityComplianceContainers1 API31.0PortworxContainersData ManagementKubernetes1 API30.2SpinMicroservicesServerlessWebAssembly5 APIs30.0NacosAlibabaConfiguration ManagementDNS1 API29.9VineyardBig DataCNCFData Engineering1 API29.7KratosFrameworkGogRPC1 API29.3MicrocksAPI TestingDevOpsMocking1 API29.1ContainerdContainer RuntimeCRIDocker1 API29.0StyraCompanyCybersecurityAuthorizationPolicy as Code1 API28.910x Banking Technology ServicesFinancial ServicesBankingCore Banking1 API28.7Open LibertyApplication ServerIBMJakarta EE1 API28.6MesheryCNCFKubernetesService Mesh28.4ScorePlatform EngineeringCNCFWorkload Specification3 APIs28.1OpenFeatureFeature FlagsFeature ManagementIncubating1 API28.0KastenCompanyCybersecurityKubernetesBackup27.5In-TotoGraduatedSecuritySoftware Integrity4 APIs27.3Apache OpenWhiskEvent-DrivenFunction-as-a-ServiceServerless6 APIs27.1Apache RocketMQMessagingMessage QueuePub-Sub1 API27.0OpenKruiseControllerDeploymentIncubating1 API27.0The Update Framework (TUF)CNCFGraduatedSecurity7 APIs26.6
Emerging 37 Early or largely undocumented
JBossApplication ServerEnterpriseJakarta EE5 APIs26.1OpenEBSContainersKubernetesOpen Source1 API25.8Container Network Interface (CNI)ContainersIncubatingKubernetes2 APIs25.4OpenFGAAccess ControlAuthorizationFine-Grained1 API24.9ChainguardContainer ImagesContainersDevSecOps6 APIs24.3QuarkusFrameworkGraalVMJava1 API24.2MicronautFrameworkJavaJVM1 API23.5Alibaba SentinelAlibabaCircuit BreakerFlow ControlJava1 API23.3kagentAI AgentsDevOpsFramework1 API23.0Open Container InitiativeContainersOCIOpen Source1 API23.0Open Service MeshEnvoyKubernetesMicroservices1 API22.9Apache SkyWalkingAPMApplication Performance MonitoringDistributed Tracing3 APIs22.6Netflix EurekaFailoverJavaLoad Balancing1 API22.2Containous (Traefik Labs)CompanyReverse ProxyLoad Balancer21.2HelidonFrameworkJavaMicroProfile1 API21.2HigressAPI GatewayIstioKubernetes4 APIs20.4DistrolessContainer ImagesContainersGoogle1 API18.8RatifyArtifact VerificationCNCFContainer Security18.7MOSNService MeshProxyAPI Gateway1 API17.1The New StackDevOpsMediaTechnology News2 APIs17.1Flux CDContainersContinuous DeliveryDeploymentGitOps1 API15.7Rafay Product DocumentationKubernetesGPUArtificial Intelligence1 API15.5WizCloud SecurityCNAPPCSPMVulnerability Management1 API14.5CNCFContainersKubernetesOpen Source2 APIs14.2RookoutLive DebuggingProduction DebuggingApplication DebuggingObservability14.1Open Mainframe ProjectEducationEnterpriseIBM Z12 APIs13.9RBACAccess ControlAuthorizationCompliance13.2K3sContainer OrchestrationDevOpsEdge Computing1 API13.1KCLConfiguration LanguageInfrastructure as CodePolicy as Code1 API12.7LabLabeeCompanyTelecommunicationsNetwork AutomationTraining12.4FlannelCNIContainersKubernetes1 API12.2KarmadaFederationIncubatingKubernetes1 API12.2KubeEdgeEdge ComputingGraduatedIoT1 API12.2KubeVelaApplication DeliveryIncubatingKubernetes1 API12.2Metal3Bare MetalIncubatingInfrastructure1 API12.2OpenYurtCloud-EdgeEdge ComputingIncubating1 API12.2Operator FrameworkAutomationIncubatingKubernetes2 APIs11.8
Minimal 16 Almost no public developer surface
ORASArtifact StorageContainer RegistryOCI2 APIs10.8KomodorKubernetesObservabilitySRETroubleshooting1 API10.4Rakuten MobileTelecommunicationsMobile Network OperatorCarrier5G3 APIs10.0Mia-PlatformDeveloper PlatformDevOpsMicroservices1 API9.4OpsaniCompanyOptimizationKubernetes7.9Affirmed NetworksCompanyInfrastructureTelecommunications5G7.8CoreOSCompanyContainersKubernetes2.8Microservice ArchitectureArchitectureDistributed SystemsMicroservices2.5OctarineCompanySecurityKubernetes2.5AxyomCoreTelecommunications5G Core4G/LTE CoreRAN2.3Microservices ArchitectureArchitectureDistributed SystemsMicroservices1.6AsertoAuthorizationFine-Grained Access ControlRBACABAC3 APIs0.0deepfactorCompanyCybersecurityApplication SecurityDevSecOps0.0HeptioCompanyOpen SourceKubernetes0.0SnaprouteCompanyNetworkingNetwork Operating System0.0WeaveworksCompanyDeveloper ToolsGitOpsKubernetes0.0
Unrated 1 Not yet scored
D2iQCompanyKubernetesContainers

APIs with this tag (36)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
IBM Cloud Code EngineRun containerized workloads without managing servers.69.1IBM Cloud Kubernetes ServiceCreate and manage Kubernetes cluster infrastructure to deploy and manage containerized applications on IBM ...69.1.NET AspireCloud-ready stack for building observable, production-ready distributed applications in .NET with built-in ...67.7
Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
F5 NGINXNGINX provides cloud-native delivery and security for modern applications, Kubernetes, and APIs. The NGINX ...66.1OCI Container Engine for Kubernetes APIFully managed Kubernetes service for deploying and managing containerized applications, supporting virtual ...66.0OCI Container Registry APIREST APIs for managing Docker container images in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Registry, a managed...66.0OCI Functions APIFully managed, serverless Functions-as-a-Service platform built on the open source Fn Project engine, suppo...66.0
Developing 9 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Portworx Kubernetes APIKubernetes-native data services platform from Pure Storage. Portworx exposes its API surface through Custom...52.6Tanzu Kubernetes Grid APIAPI for managing enterprise-ready Kubernetes clusters.52.3Artifact Hub APIThe Artifact Hub REST API provides endpoints for searching and retrieving cloud-native packages across all ...50.4Apache APISIX GatewayApache APISIX provides rich traffic management features including load balancing, dynamic upstream configur...48.3NGINX Gateway FabricNGINX Gateway Fabric is a Kubernetes Gateway API implementation using NGINX as the data plane. It provides ...44.9NGINX Ingress ControllerThe NGINX Ingress Controller is a Kubernetes-native ingress controller built on NGINX that manages external...44.9Envoy Gateway APIEnvoy Gateway manages Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based application gateway, implementing and...44.0Digital CoreCloud-native core banking platform — the next-generation successor surface alongside SilverLake, CIF 20/20,...43.7Porter Plugins APIPlugin interface that allows extending Porter's core functionality, such as storing installation data, cred...42.4
Thin 9 Limited public surface area
InfoScale for Kubernetes APIAPI for administering and monitoring InfoScale in Kubernetes and OpenShift container environments. Provides...39.1Swimlane Turbine APIThe Swimlane Turbine API provides access to the cloud-native Turbine platform, enabling integration with 50...37.7Runcrunc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI (Open Container Initia...33.9A10 Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC)The Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC) runs inside Kubernetes and configures upstream Thunder ADC objects a...31.4Prisma CloudPrisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks provides comprehensive cloud native security across the full application...31.0Vineyard Kubernetes OperatorThe Vineyard Kubernetes Operator manages vineyard cluster lifecycle and orchestrates shared objects on Kube...29.7KratosKratos is a Go framework for building cloud-native microservices, originally created at Bilibili. It provid...29.3Score SpecificationThe Score Specification (score.yaml) is a declarative, platform-agnostic workload definition format that ca...28.1score-k8sscore-k8s is the reference Score implementation that translates Score YAML workload specifications into Kub...28.1
Emerging 11 Early or largely undocumented
OpenEBSOpenEBS is an open source Container Native Storage solution that provides persistent storage for Kubernetes...25.8FlyteFlyte is a production-grade, cloud-native workflow orchestration platform for data and machine learning pro...23.7StarlingXStarlingX is an edge cloud computing infrastructure platform optimized for high performance, ultra-low late...21.1HigressHigress is a next-generation cloud-native API gateway that provides intelligent routing, traffic management...20.4Higress AI GatewayHigress AI Gateway extends the core Higress gateway with AI-specific capabilities including LLM proxy routi...20.4Higress Wasm Plugin APIThe Higress Wasm Plugin API provides a WebAssembly-based extension interface for developing and deploying c...20.4Bloomberg Cloud ConnectCloud-native connectivity to Bloomberg data enabling access from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments ...19.4The New Stack Podcast FeedRSS feed for The New Stack podcast, featuring discussions with developers, engineers, and operations profes...17.1The New Stack RSS FeedRSS feed providing the latest articles and news from The New Stack covering cloud native, DevOps, AI, and o...17.1CNCF Cloud Native Interactive LandscapeThe CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape is the canonical map of the cloud-native ecosystem. The landsca...14.2KCLKCL constraint-based record and functional programming language for configuration and policy scenarios in c...12.7

Companies reaching this through an API (13)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Cloud-Native” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

A10 Networks Bloomberg Platform F5 IBM Jack Henry & Associates LF AI and Data Microsoft .NET OpenInfra Foundation Oracle Pure Storage Swimlane Veritas Volume Manager VMware

Score breakdown

Frequency
61.5
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
3.7
spread across providers
Quality lift
37.4
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
28.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

144 providers carry this tag directly, and 164 counting the 3 narrower tags below — 20 more to reach.

Graduated 19 providers Incubating 17 providers CNCF 47 providers

Related tags

Kubernetes 88 co-occurrences CNCF 27 co-occurrences Graduated 19 co-occurrences Incubating 17 co-occurrences Containers 31 co-occurrences Microservices 22 co-occurrences Service Mesh 13 co-occurrences OCI 11 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag144
Api tag36

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 137 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Cloud-Native, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
137
all scored
Mean Kin Score
31.6
+8.7 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
15.9
+4.0 vs catalog 11.9
Spread
0–72.9
median 31.1 · σ 14.9
How the 137 split by band
Exemplar 2Strong 6Developing 36Thin 46Emerging 37Minimal 10
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 32.6 17.6 +15 137
Operational Transparency 25.8 13.7 +12.1 137
Developer Ergonomics 32 23.2 +8.8 137
Contract Governance 11.3 6.3 +5 137
Discoverability 59.8 58.1 +1.7 137
Access Clarity 20.4 26.5 -6.1 137

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 12% 14% -2
MCP server (first-party) 4% 12% -8
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 7% 11% -4
Security 96% 98% -2
Arazzo workflows 2% 2% 0
Governance rules 49% 14% +35

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Akuity 72.9
  2. 2 Spectro Cloud 66.6
  3. 3 Grafana Loki 66.1
  4. 4 Solo.io 63
  5. 5 Backstage 62.8
  6. 6 IBM WebSphere 58
  7. 7 Gloo 57.8
  8. 8 Tigera 55.9
  9. 9 Kubeshop 52.9
  10. 10 MinIO 50.9
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Backstage 60.4
  2. 2 Grafana Loki 49.8
  3. 3 Kubeshop 47.7
  4. 4 Tigera 39.1
  5. 5 Solo.io 37.6
  6. 6 Gloo 34.4
  7. 7 Aqua Security 33.7
  8. 8 OpenFeature 33.1
  9. 9 NGINX 31.2
  10. 10 IBM WebSphere 30.6
All 144 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 5 October 2026, across 29093 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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