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Cloud-Native

Score 26.3 / 100 150 providers +13 via APIs 36 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (150)

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

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
AkuityGitOpsContinuous DeliveryKubernetesArgoCD8 APIs73.0
Strong 7 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Spectro CloudCompanyInfrastructureKubernetes3 APIs65.9Solo.ioCompanyAPI GatewayService MeshKubernetes5 APIs61.6Grafana LokiCompanyLogsLoggingLog Aggregation3 APIs66.1BackstageDeveloper PortalInternal Developer PlatformSoftware CatalogOpen Source13 APIs61.6IBM WebSphereApplication ServerEnterprise JavaJ2EE7 APIs58.4GlooAPI GatewayDeveloper PortalEnvoy4 APIs56.3TigeraCompanyKubernetesNetworkingNetwork Security1 API56.0
Developing 33 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
MinIOObject StorageStorageS3 Compatible2 APIs51.0Artifact HubCNCFHelm ChartsPackage Registry1 API49.1ZeebeBPMNCamundaDistributed Systems1 API48.4Cloud Native BuildpacksCloud Native BuildpacksBuild ToolsCI/CD1 API47.7Apache APISIXApacheAPI GatewayKubernetes2 APIs47.2CubeFSCNCF GraduatedDistributed File SystemKubernetes2 APIs42.9CiliumeBPFKubernetesNetworking1 API42.6EnvoyEnvoyLoad BalancingProxy3 APIs42.6Chaos MeshChaos EngineeringCNCFKubernetes2 APIs42.2RookBlock StorageCNCFCeph1 API41.3IsovalentCompanyNetworkingKuberneteseBPF2 APIs41.2PorterCNABDevOpsKubernetes1 API41.0Aqua SecurityContainersKubernetesRuntime Protection8 APIs40.8RadiusApplication PlatformInfrastructureMulti-Cloud5 APIs40.2KubeshopCompanyTestingKubernetesContinuous Integration3 APIs52.9ChoreoAi AppsAPI ManagementCI/CD3 APIs50.2EtcdConsensusDistributed SystemsGraduated1 API48.5KubernetesAutomationCNCFContainers7 APIs47.6KnativeAuto-ScalingEvent-DrivenGraduated2 APIs47.1ArgoCNCFCI/CDGitOpsKubernetes3 APIs46.3CrossplaneApache 2.0CNCFCOMPOSITION1 API45.8KEDAAuto-ScalingCNCFEvent-DrivenGraduated5 APIs45.6NGINXNGINXAPI GatewayCaching1 API44.2LonghornBackupBlock StorageIncubating1 API43.5SPIREAuthenticationGraduatedIdentity2 APIs42.4SubstructureCompanyArtificial IntelligenceAgents1 API41.7VolcanoBatch ProcessingHPCIncubating3 APIs41.4wasmCloudCNCFDistributed SystemsIncubating5 APIs41.1KubeVirtIncubatingKubernetesMigration2 APIs41.0Envoy GatewayAPI GatewayCNCFEnvoyKubernetes3 APIs40.9Spring FrameworkSpring FrameworkArtificial IntelligenceEnterprise3 APIs40.0CoreDNSApache 2.0CNCFDNS2 APIs39.6HelmHelmChartsContainer Orchestration1 API39.3
Thin 49 Limited public surface area
OpenTelemetryLoggingMetricsMonitoring1 API38.6NATSNATSIoTMessage Broker2 APIs38.3Axiom ControllerAnalyticsLoggingMonitoring4 APIs36.2QuickwitSearchLog ManagementObservabilityFull-Text Search1 API35.8FalcoeBPFRuntime SecuritySecurity1 API35.4PrometheusPrometheusMonitoringMetricsObservability2 APIs35.4MicrocksAPI TestingDevOpsMocking1 API34.1Thought MachineCompanyBankingCore BankingFinancial Services2 APIs33.6Apache PulsarMessagingMulti-TenantPub/Sub8 APIs32.4WasmEdgeCNCFEdge ComputingHigh Performance5 APIs29.8Prisma CloudCloud SecurityComplianceContainers1 API29.5StyraCompanyCybersecurityAuthorizationPolicy as Code1 API29.010x Banking Technology ServicesFinancial ServicesBankingCore Banking1 API28.7MesheryCNCFKubernetesService Mesh28.5NacosAlibabaConfiguration ManagementDNS1 API28.4KratosFrameworkGogRPC1 API27.9QuarkusFrameworkGraalVMJava1 API27.3Open LibertyApplication ServerIBMJakarta EE1 API27.1ScorePlatform EngineeringCNCFWorkload Specification3 APIs26.7PismoBankingCard IssuingPaymentsFintech1 API26.5KyvernoGovernanceKubernetesPolicy Management1 API38.9MilvusVector SearchArtificial IntelligenceEmbeddingsOpen Source1 API38.7Google Kubernetes EngineContainersGoogle CloudKubernetes1 API37.7Argo CDArgoCDDevOpsGitOpsKubernetes1 API36.6VitessCNCFDatabaseDistributed Systems4 APIs36.4CloudEventsCloudEventsEventGraduated1 API36.2LinkerdKubernetesmTLSObservabilitySecurity3 APIs35.9YoukiContainersContainer RuntimeOCIRust2 APIs35.5Service FabricDistributed SystemsMicroservicesContainers1 API35.4Flatcar Container LinuxContainersImmutable InfrastructureIncubating1 API35.3DiagridCompanyDeveloper ToolsAI AgentsDurable Execution35.0IstioIstioCNCFKubernetesMicroservices3 APIs34.9PodmanContainersDevOpsOCI1 API34.3VMware TanzuContainersEnterpriseKubernetes2 APIs33.5CRI-OApache 2.0CNCFconmon2 APIs33.3Cert-ManagerCertificatesGraduatedKubernetes6 APIs33.1SPIFFEAuthenticationGraduatedIdentity1 API32.9Notary ProjectContainer SecurityImage SigningIncubating4 APIs32.8RuncContainer RuntimeContainersLinuxOCI1 API32.5ContainerdContainer RuntimeCRIDocker1 API30.0Emissary-IngressAPI GatewayEnvoyIncubating1 API29.8PortworxContainersData ManagementKubernetes1 API28.7SpinMicroservicesServerlessWebAssembly5 APIs28.7OpenFeatureFeature FlagsFeature ManagementIncubating1 API28.3VineyardBig DataCNCFData Engineering1 API28.2KastenCompanyCybersecurityKubernetesBackup27.6Apache OpenWhiskEvent-DrivenFunction-as-a-ServiceServerless6 APIs27.0Service MeshService MeshMicroservicesKubernetes5 APIs27.0Apache RocketMQMessagingMessage QueuePub/Sub1 API26.8
Emerging 36 Early or largely undocumented
Apache SkyWalkingAPMApplication Performance MonitoringDistributed Tracing3 APIs22.4kagentAI AgentsDevOpsFramework1 API21.6Open Service MeshEnvoyKubernetesMicroservices1 API21.5Containous (Traefik Labs)CompanyReverse ProxyLoad Balancer21.3Netflix EurekaFailoverJavaLoad Balancing1 API20.7HigressAPI GatewayIstioKubernetes4 APIs19.0WizCloud SecurityCNAPPCSPMVulnerability Management1 API16.0MOSNService MeshProxyAPI Gateway1 API15.7The New StackDevOpsMediaTechnology News2 APIs15.6CNCFContainersKubernetesOpen Source2 APIs12.7JBossApplication ServerEnterpriseJakarta EE5 APIs26.0In-TotoGraduatedSecuritySoftware Integrity4 APIs25.8OpenKruiseControllerDeploymentIncubating1 API25.5The Update Framework (TUF)CNCFGraduatedSecurity7 APIs25.0MetloAPI SecurityReal-Time MonitoringOpenAPI1 API24.6OpenEBSContainersKubernetesOpen Source1 API24.4Container Network Interface (CNI)ContainersIncubatingKubernetes2 APIs24.0OpenFGAAccess ControlAuthorizationFine-Grained1 API23.6Alibaba SentinelAlibabaCircuit BreakerFlow ControlJava1 API23.4HelidonFrameworkJavaMicroProfile1 API22.9ChainguardContainer ImagesContainersDevSecOps6 APIs22.8MicronautFrameworkJavaJVM1 API22.0Open Container InitiativeContainersOCIOpen Source1 API21.5SaarasCompanyAPI GatewayKubernetesService Mesh4 APIs19.9Apache PolarisCompanyData PlatformOpen Source1 API19.6RatifyArtifact VerificationCNCFContainer Security18.8DistrolessContainer ImagesContainersGoogle1 API17.5RookoutLive DebuggingProduction DebuggingApplication DebuggingObservability16.1Flux CDContainersContinuous DeliveryDeploymentGitOps1 API15.6Rafay Product DocumentationKubernetesGPUArtificial Intelligence1 API14.0RBACAccess ControlAuthorizationCompliance13.3Open Mainframe ProjectEducationEnterpriseIBM Z12 APIs12.5LabLabeeCompanyTelecommunicationsNetwork AutomationTraining12.4K3sContainer OrchestrationDevOpsEdge Computing1 API12.0Rakuten MobileTelecommunicationsMobile Network OperatorCarrier5G3 APIs11.3KCLConfiguration LanguageInfrastructure as CodePolicy as Code1 API11.1
Minimal 23 Almost no public developer surface
Affirmed NetworksCompanyInfrastructureTelecommunications5G7.7OctarineCompanySecurityKubernetes2.6AxyomCoreTelecommunications5G Core4G/LTE CoreRAN2.3AsertoAuthorizationFine-Grained Access ControlRBACABAC3 APIs0.0deepfactorCompanyCybersecurityApplication SecurityDevSecOps0.0HeptioCompanyOpen SourceKubernetes0.0SnaprouteCompanyNetworkingNetwork Operating System0.0WeaveworksCompanyDeveloper ToolsGitOpsKubernetes0.0FlannelCNIContainersKubernetes1 API10.7KarmadaFederationIncubatingKubernetes1 API10.7KubeEdgeEdge ComputingGraduatedIoT1 API10.7KubeVelaApplication DeliveryIncubatingKubernetes1 API10.7Metal3Bare MetalIncubatingInfrastructure1 API10.7OpenYurtCloud-EdgeEdge ComputingIncubating1 API10.7KomodorKubernetesObservabilitySRETroubleshooting1 API10.5Operator FrameworkAutomationIncubatingKubernetes2 APIs10.2ORASArtifact StorageContainer RegistryOCI2 APIs9.3OpsaniCompanyOptimizationKubernetes8.0Mia-PlatformDeveloper PlatformDevOpsMicroservices1 API7.9Spherical DefenseCompanyCybersecurityArtificial IntelligenceThreat Detection1 API7.2CoreOSCompanyContainersKubernetes2.9Microservice ArchitectureArchitectureDistributed SystemsMicroservices2.6Microservices ArchitectureArchitectureDistributed SystemsMicroservices1.7
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 →

Strong 7 Solid coverage with minor gaps
IBM Cloud Code EngineRun containerized workloads without managing servers.66.4IBM Cloud Kubernetes ServiceCreate and manage Kubernetes cluster infrastructure to deploy and manage containerized applications on IBM ...66.4.NET AspireCloud-ready stack for building observable, production-ready distributed applications in .NET with built-in ...66.1OCI Container Engine for Kubernetes APIFully managed Kubernetes service for deploying and managing containerized applications, supporting virtual ...65.9OCI Container Registry APIREST APIs for managing Docker container images in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Registry, a managed...65.9OCI Functions APIFully managed, serverless Functions-as-a-Service platform built on the open source Fn Project engine, suppo...65.9F5 NGINXNGINX provides cloud-native delivery and security for modern applications, Kubernetes, and APIs. The NGINX ...65.1
Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid APIAPI for managing enterprise-ready Kubernetes clusters.51.3Artifact Hub APIThe Artifact Hub REST API provides endpoints for searching and retrieving cloud-native packages across all ...49.1Portworx Kubernetes APIKubernetes-native data services platform from Pure Storage. Portworx exposes its API surface through Custom...48.0Apache APISIX GatewayApache APISIX provides rich traffic management features including load balancing, dynamic upstream configur...47.2NGINX Gateway FabricNGINX Gateway Fabric is a Kubernetes Gateway API implementation using NGINX as the data plane. It provides ...44.2NGINX Ingress ControllerThe NGINX Ingress Controller is a Kubernetes-native ingress controller built on NGINX that manages external...44.2Envoy Gateway APIEnvoy Gateway manages Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based application gateway, implementing and...42.6Porter Plugins APIPlugin interface that allows extending Porter's core functionality, such as storing installation data, cred...41.0
Thin 10 Limited public surface area
InfoScale for Kubernetes APIAPI for administering and monitoring InfoScale in Kubernetes and OpenShift container environments. Provides...39.0Digital CoreCloud-native core banking platform — the next-generation successor surface alongside SilverLake, CIF 20/20,...35.7Swimlane Turbine APIThe Swimlane Turbine API provides access to the cloud-native Turbine platform, enabling integration with 50...33.0Runcrunc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI (Open Container Initia...32.5Prisma CloudPrisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks provides comprehensive cloud native security across the full application...29.5Vineyard Kubernetes OperatorThe Vineyard Kubernetes Operator manages vineyard cluster lifecycle and orchestrates shared objects on Kube...28.2KratosKratos is a Go framework for building cloud-native microservices, originally created at Bilibili. It provid...27.9A10 Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC)The Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC) runs inside Kubernetes and configures upstream Thunder ADC objects a...27.4Score SpecificationThe Score Specification (score.yaml) is a declarative, platform-agnostic workload definition format that ca...26.7score-k8sscore-k8s is the reference Score implementation that translates Score YAML workload specifications into Kub...26.7
Emerging 11 Early or largely undocumented
OpenEBSOpenEBS is an open source Container Native Storage solution that provides persistent storage for Kubernetes...24.4FlyteFlyte is a production-grade, cloud-native workflow orchestration platform for data and machine learning pro...22.4StarlingXStarlingX is an edge cloud computing infrastructure platform optimized for high performance, ultra-low late...19.6HigressHigress is a next-generation cloud-native API gateway that provides intelligent routing, traffic management...19.0Higress AI GatewayHigress AI Gateway extends the core Higress gateway with AI-specific capabilities including LLM proxy routi...19.0Higress Wasm Plugin APIThe Higress Wasm Plugin API provides a WebAssembly-based extension interface for developing and deploying c...19.0Bloomberg Cloud ConnectCloud-native connectivity to Bloomberg data enabling access from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments ...17.9The New Stack Podcast FeedRSS feed for The New Stack podcast, featuring discussions with developers, engineers, and operations profes...15.6The New Stack RSS FeedRSS feed providing the latest articles and news from The New Stack covering cloud native, DevOps, AI, and o...15.6CNCF Cloud Native Interactive LandscapeThe CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape is the canonical map of the cloud-native ecosystem. The landsca...12.7KCLKCL constraint-based record and functional programming language for configuration and policy scenarios in c...11.1

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
60.9
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
3.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
30.7
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
27.2
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

150 providers carry this tag directly, and 169 counting the 3 narrower tags below — 19 more to reach.

Graduated 19 providers Incubating 17 providers CNCF 46 providers

Related tags

Kubernetes 90 co-occurrences CNCF 28 co-occurrences Graduated 19 co-occurrences Incubating 17 co-occurrences Containers 31 co-occurrences Microservices 23 co-occurrences Service Mesh 15 co-occurrences OCI 11 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag150
Api tag36

Markets provisional

Kin Score markets whose measured providers carry this tag. Share is the fraction of the market's measured providers that carry it — it describes the market, not this tag.

MarketShare of the market's providers
OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Holders32%
Cloud Native (Kubernetes, CNCF, FinOps)22%

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 143 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
143
of 150 in the catalog
Mean Kin Score
30.4
+8.2 vs catalog 22.2
Mean Agent Readiness
15.2
+3.2 vs catalog 12
Spread
0–73
median 29.8 · σ 14.7
How the 143 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 7Developing 33Thin 49Emerging 36Minimal 17
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 31.8 17.2 +14.6 143
Operational Transparency 26.6 13 +13.6 143
Developer Ergonomics 32.3 23.2 +9.1 143
Contract Governance 11 6.5 +4.5 143
Discoverability 60 57.9 +2.1 143
Access Clarity 14.9 23.9 -9 143

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% 13% -1
MCP server (first-party) 5% 12% -7
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 7% 11% -4
Security 95% 98% -3
Arazzo workflows 2% 2% 0
Governance rules 49% 16% +33

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 73
  2. 2 Grafana Loki 66.1
  3. 3 Spectro Cloud 65.9
  4. 4 Backstage 61.6
  5. 5 Solo.io 61.6
  6. 6 IBM WebSphere 58.4
  7. 7 Gloo 56.3
  8. 8 Tigera 56
  9. 9 Kubeshop 52.9
  10. 10 MinIO 51
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Backstage 57.3
  2. 2 Grafana Loki 49.8
  3. 3 Kubeshop 45.1
  4. 4 Tigera 42.4
  5. 5 Solo.io 34.8
  6. 6 Gloo 34.5
  7. 7 OpenFeature 34.5
  8. 8 OpenFGA 33.7
  9. 9 Aqua Security 33.2
  10. 10 NGINX 29.7
All 150 members of this roster resolve to a provider in the catalog; 143 carry a score (95%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 109 of 143 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 24 October 2026, across 31984 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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  • cohort_statsPRO — the distribution across this tag: mean, median, band split, adoption rates.
  • cohort_rankingsPRO — the leaderboard, on composite AND agent-readiness axes.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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