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Cloud-Native

Score 25.1 / 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 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Spectro CloudCompanyInfrastructureKubernetes3 APIs66.7AkuityGitOpsContinuous DeliveryKubernetesArgoCD8 APIs73.7
Strong 11 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Solo.ioCompanyAPI GatewayService MeshKubernetes5 APIs62.3MinIOObject StorageStorageS3 Compatible2 APIs56.7OktetoCompanyKubernetesDeveloper Environments1 API65.3Grafana LokiCompanyLogsLoggingLog Aggregation3 APIs64.9TigeraCompanyKubernetesNetworkingNetwork Security1 API62.9KubeshopCompanyTestingKubernetesContinuous Integration3 APIs62.2BackstageDeveloper PortalInternal Developer PlatformSoftware CatalogOpen Source13 APIs60.5GlooAPI GatewayDeveloper PortalEnvoy4 APIs60.4Google Kubernetes EngineContainersGoogle CloudKubernetes4 APIs60.3IBM WebSphereApplication ServerEnterprise JavaJ2EE7 APIs59.8ChoreoAi AppsAPI ManagementCI/CD3 APIs55.7
Developing 33 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
ZeebeBPMNCamundaDistributed Systems1 API51.6Artifact HubCNCFHelm ChartsPackage Registry1 API50.7Cloud Native BuildpacksCloud Native BuildpacksBuild ToolsCI/CD1 API49.2Apache APISIXApacheAPI GatewayKubernetes2 APIs47.9EnvoyEnvoyLoad BalancingProxy3 APIs43.9CiliumeBPFKubernetesNetworking1 API43.4CubeFSCNCF GraduatedDistributed File SystemKubernetes2 APIs43.3Chaos MeshChaos EngineeringCNCFKubernetes2 APIs43.0PorterCNABDevOpsKubernetes1 API42.3RookBlock StorageCNCFCeph1 API42.0IsovalentCompanyNetworkingKuberneteseBPF2 APIs41.7RadiusApplication PlatformInfrastructureMulti-Cloud5 APIs41.7Aqua SecurityContainersKubernetesRuntime Protection8 APIs39.5KubernetesAutomationCNCFContainers1 API48.7EtcdConsensusDistributed SystemsGraduated1 API48.2KnativeAuto-ScalingEvent-DrivenGraduated2 APIs47.5ArgoCNCFCI/CDGitOpsKubernetes3 APIs47.0CrossplaneApache 2.0CNCFCOMPOSITION1 API47.0KEDAAuto-ScalingCNCFEvent-DrivenGraduated5 APIs46.8NGINXNGINXAPI GatewayCaching1 API46.1LonghornBackupBlock StorageIncubating1 API43.9SPIREAuthenticationGraduatedIdentity2 APIs43.6UnikraftCompanyUnikernelOpen Source5 APIs43.1VolcanoBatch ProcessingHPCIncubating3 APIs42.7SubstructureCompanyArtificial IntelligenceAgents1 API42.3wasmCloudCNCFDistributed SystemsIncubating5 APIs42.3Envoy GatewayAPI GatewayCNCFEnvoyKubernetes3 APIs41.9HelmHelmChartsContainer Orchestration1 API41.0KubeVirtIncubatingKubernetesMigration2 APIs41.0CoreDNSApache 2.0CNCFDNS2 APIs40.9Spring FrameworkSpring FrameworkArtificial IntelligenceEnterprise3 APIs40.2KyvernoGovernanceKubernetesPolicy Management1 API40.1MilvusVector SearchArtificial IntelligenceEmbeddingsOpen Source1 API40.0
Thin 46 Limited public surface area
OpenTelemetryLoggingMetricsMonitoring1 API39.0NATSNATSIoTMessage Broker2 APIs38.5Axiom ControllerAnalyticsLoggingMonitoring4 APIs38.2QuickwitSearchLog ManagementObservabilityFull-Text Search1 API37.5FalcoeBPFRuntime SecuritySecurity1 API36.3PrometheusPrometheusMonitoringMetricsObservability2 APIs35.9Thought MachineCompanyBankingCore BankingFinancial Services2 APIs34.5MicrocksAPI TestingDevOpsMocking1 API33.6Apache PulsarMessagingMulti-TenantPub/Sub1 API30.7StyraCompanyCybersecurityAuthorizationPolicy as Code1 API30.7WasmEdgeCNCFEdge ComputingHigh Performance5 APIs30.5MesheryCNCFKubernetesService Mesh29.9Prisma CloudCloud SecurityComplianceContainers1 API29.7KratosFrameworkGogRPC1 API28.7NacosAlibabaConfiguration ManagementDNS1 API28.5PismoBankingCard IssuingPaymentsFintech1 API28.410x Banking Technology ServicesFinancial ServicesBankingCore Banking1 API27.8QuarkusFrameworkGraalVMJava1 API27.0ScorePlatform EngineeringCNCFWorkload Specification3 APIs26.7PodmanContainersDevOpsOCI1 API38.1Flatcar Container LinuxContainersImmutable InfrastructureIncubating1 API37.2Giant SwarmCompanyKubernetesPlatform Engineering2 APIs37.2LinkerdKubernetesmTLSObservabilitySecurity3 APIs37.1VitessCNCFDatabaseDistributed Systems4 APIs36.6DiagridCompanyDeveloper ToolsAI AgentsDurable Execution36.5CloudEventsCloudEventsEventGraduated1 API36.3Argo CDArgoCDDevOpsGitOpsKubernetes1 API36.2YoukiContainersContainer RuntimeOCIRust2 APIs35.1CRI-OApache 2.0CNCFconmon2 APIs34.6IstioIstioCNCFKubernetesMicroservices3 APIs34.5Cert-ManagerCertificatesGraduatedKubernetes6 APIs34.3ChkkLifecycle ManagementKubernetesEnterprise Software1 API34.1RuncContainer RuntimeContainersLinuxOCI1 API33.3SPIFFEAuthenticationGraduatedIdentity1 API33.2VMware TanzuContainersEnterpriseKubernetes2 APIs32.0Notary ProjectContainer SecurityImage SigningIncubating4 APIs31.6ContainerdContainer RuntimeCRIDocker1 API30.5SpinMicroservicesServerlessWebAssembly5 APIs29.8Emissary-IngressAPI GatewayEnvoyIncubating1 API29.5PortworxContainersData ManagementKubernetes1 API28.8OpenFeatureFeature FlagsFeature ManagementIncubating1 API26.9VineyardBig DataCNCFData Engineering1 API26.9KastenCompanyCybersecurityKubernetesBackup26.8Apache OpenWhiskEvent-DrivenFunction-as-a-ServiceServerless6 APIs26.7Apache RocketMQMessagingMessage QueuePub/Sub1 API26.6OpenKruiseControllerDeploymentIncubating1 API26.4
Emerging 33 Early or largely undocumented
Open LibertyApplication ServerIBMJakarta EE1 API26.1kagentAI AgentsDevOpsFramework1 API22.4Containous (Traefik Labs)CompanyReverse ProxyLoad Balancer21.9Open Service MeshEnvoyKubernetesMicroservices1 API21.9Netflix EurekaFailoverJavaLoad Balancing1 API21.8Apache SkyWalkingAPMApplication Performance MonitoringDistributed Tracing3 APIs21.6HigressAPI GatewayIstioKubernetes4 APIs20.2MOSNService MeshProxyAPI Gateway1 API15.4The New StackDevOpsMediaTechnology News2 APIs15.0WizCloud SecurityCNAPPCSPMVulnerability Management1 API14.6JBossApplication ServerEnterpriseJakarta EE5 APIs25.7MetloAPI SecurityReal-Time MonitoringOpenAPI1 API25.6OpenEBSContainersKubernetesOpen Source1 API25.6In-TotoGraduatedSecuritySoftware Integrity4 APIs25.1The Update Framework (TUF)CNCFGraduatedSecurity7 APIs24.3OpenFGAAccess ControlAuthorizationFine-Grained1 API23.8Container Network Interface (CNI)ContainersIncubatingKubernetes2 APIs22.9Alibaba SentinelAlibabaCircuit BreakerFlow ControlJava1 API22.2Open Container InitiativeContainersOCIOpen Source1 API22.1ChainguardContainer ImagesContainersDevSecOps6 APIs21.9HelidonFrameworkJavaMicroProfile1 API21.9MicronautFrameworkJavaJVM1 API21.0Apache PolarisCompanyData PlatformOpen Source1 API20.1SaarasCompanyAPI GatewayKubernetesService Mesh4 APIs20.1RatifyArtifact VerificationCNCFContainer Security19.6DistrolessContainer ImagesContainersGoogle1 API18.4Flux CDContainersContinuous DeliveryDeploymentGitOps1 API15.3RookoutLive DebuggingProduction DebuggingApplication DebuggingObservability14.5Open Mainframe ProjectEducationEnterpriseIBM Z12 APIs12.7LabLabeeCompanyTelecommunicationsNetwork AutomationTraining12.5Rafay Product DocumentationKubernetesGPUArtificial Intelligence1 API12.5Rakuten MobileTelecommunicationsMobile Network OperatorCarrier5G3 APIs11.3K3sContainer OrchestrationDevOpsEdge Computing1 API11.0
Minimal 24 Almost no public developer surface
CNCFContainersKubernetesOpen Source2 APIs10.9Affirmed NetworksCompanyInfrastructureTelecommunications5G6.2OctarineCompanySecurityKubernetes2.6AxyomCoreTelecommunications5G Core4G/LTE CoreRAN2.3WeaveworksCompanyKubernetesGitOps2.2AsertoAuthorizationFine-Grained Access ControlRBACABAC3 APIs0.0deepfactorCompanyCybersecurityApplication SecurityDevSecOps0.0HeptioCompanyOpen SourceKubernetes0.0SnaprouteCompanyNetworkingNetwork Operating System0.0WeaveworksCompanyDeveloper ToolsGitOpsKubernetes0.0FlannelCNIContainersKubernetes1 API10.6KCLConfiguration LanguageInfrastructure as CodePolicy as Code1 API10.1KarmadaFederationIncubatingKubernetes1 API9.4KomodorKubernetesObservabilitySRETroubleshooting1 API9.4KubeEdgeEdge ComputingGraduatedIoT1 API9.4KubeVelaApplication DeliveryIncubatingKubernetes1 API9.4Metal3Bare MetalIncubatingInfrastructure1 API9.4OpenYurtCloud-EdgeEdge ComputingIncubating1 API9.4Operator FrameworkAutomationIncubatingKubernetes2 APIs8.9ORASArtifact StorageContainer RegistryOCI2 APIs8.7OpsaniCompanyOptimizationKubernetes8.5Spherical DefenseCompanyCybersecurityArtificial IntelligenceThreat Detection1 API7.0Mia-PlatformDeveloper PlatformDevOpsMicroservices1 API6.9CoreOSCompanyContainersKubernetes3.2
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 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
F5 NGINXNGINX provides cloud-native delivery and security for modern applications, Kubernetes, and APIs. The NGINX ...74.7OCI Container Engine for Kubernetes APIFully managed Kubernetes service for deploying and managing containerized applications, supporting virtual ...70.4OCI Container Registry APIREST APIs for managing Docker container images in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Registry, a managed...70.4OCI Functions APIFully managed, serverless Functions-as-a-Service platform built on the open source Fn Project engine, suppo...70.4.NET AspireCloud-ready stack for building observable, production-ready distributed applications in .NET with built-in ...67.4
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
IBM Cloud Code EngineRun containerized workloads without managing servers.65.8IBM Cloud Kubernetes ServiceCreate and manage Kubernetes cluster infrastructure to deploy and manage containerized applications on IBM ...65.8
Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Artifact Hub APIThe Artifact Hub REST API provides endpoints for searching and retrieving cloud-native packages across all ...50.7Tanzu Kubernetes Grid APIAPI for managing enterprise-ready Kubernetes clusters.49.8Apache APISIX GatewayApache APISIX provides rich traffic management features including load balancing, dynamic upstream configur...47.9Portworx Kubernetes APIKubernetes-native data services platform from Pure Storage. Portworx exposes its API surface through Custom...47.7NGINX Gateway FabricNGINX Gateway Fabric is a Kubernetes Gateway API implementation using NGINX as the data plane. It provides ...46.1NGINX Ingress ControllerThe NGINX Ingress Controller is a Kubernetes-native ingress controller built on NGINX that manages external...46.1Envoy Gateway APIEnvoy Gateway manages Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based application gateway, implementing and...43.9Porter Plugins APIPlugin interface that allows extending Porter's core functionality, such as storing installation data, cred...42.3
Thin 9 Limited public surface area
InfoScale for Kubernetes APIAPI for administering and monitoring InfoScale in Kubernetes and OpenShift container environments. Provides...37.4Digital CoreCloud-native core banking platform — the next-generation successor surface alongside SilverLake, CIF 20/20,...34.8Runcrunc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI (Open Container Initia...33.3Swimlane Turbine APIThe Swimlane Turbine API provides access to the cloud-native Turbine platform, enabling integration with 50...32.2Prisma CloudPrisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks provides comprehensive cloud native security across the full application...29.7KratosKratos is a Go framework for building cloud-native microservices, originally created at Bilibili. It provid...28.7Vineyard Kubernetes OperatorThe Vineyard Kubernetes Operator manages vineyard cluster lifecycle and orchestrates shared objects on Kube...26.9Score 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 10 Early or largely undocumented
A10 Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC)The Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC) runs inside Kubernetes and configures upstream Thunder ADC objects a...25.9OpenEBSOpenEBS is an open source Container Native Storage solution that provides persistent storage for Kubernetes...25.6FlyteFlyte is a production-grade, cloud-native workflow orchestration platform for data and machine learning pro...21.7HigressHigress is a next-generation cloud-native API gateway that provides intelligent routing, traffic management...20.2Higress AI GatewayHigress AI Gateway extends the core Higress gateway with AI-specific capabilities including LLM proxy routi...20.2Higress Wasm Plugin APIThe Higress Wasm Plugin API provides a WebAssembly-based extension interface for developing and deploying c...20.2StarlingXStarlingX is an edge cloud computing infrastructure platform optimized for high performance, ultra-low late...19.8Bloomberg Cloud ConnectCloud-native connectivity to Bloomberg data enabling access from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments ...18.3The New Stack Podcast FeedRSS feed for The New Stack podcast, featuring discussions with developers, engineers, and operations profes...15.0The New Stack RSS FeedRSS feed providing the latest articles and news from The New Stack covering cloud native, DevOps, AI, and o...15.0
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
CNCF Cloud Native Interactive LandscapeThe CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape is the canonical map of the cloud-native ecosystem. The landsca...10.9KCLKCL constraint-based record and functional programming language for configuration and policy scenarios in c...10.1

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
57.5
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.9
spread across providers
Quality lift
30.5
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
27.8
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

150 providers carry this tag directly, and 170 counting the 3 narrower tags below — 20 more to reach.

Graduated 19 providers Incubating 17 providers CNCF 47 providers

Related tags

Kubernetes 91 co-occurrences CNCF 27 co-occurrences Graduated 19 co-occurrences Incubating 17 co-occurrences Containers 30 co-occurrences Service Mesh 14 co-occurrences Microservices 19 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 141 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
141
of 150 in the catalog
Mean Kin Score
31.2
+7.1 vs catalog 24.1
Mean Agent Readiness
15.3
+1.2 vs catalog 14.1
Spread
0–73.7
median 30.5 · σ 15.8
How the 141 split by band
Exemplar 2Strong 10Developing 33Thin 44Emerging 33Minimal 19
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 31.9 18.6 +13.3 141
Operational Transparency 25.9 13.2 +12.7 141
Developer Ergonomics 33.4 24.5 +8.9 141
Contract Governance 13.1 9.7 +3.4 141
Discoverability 60.5 59.1 +1.4 141
Access Clarity 17.9 30 -12.1 141

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) 13% 18% -5
MCP server (first-party) 6% 16% -10
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 7% 13% -6
Security 96% 99% -3
Arazzo workflows 2% 1% +1
Governance rules 65% 36% +29

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 73.7
  2. 2 Spectro Cloud 66.7
  3. 3 Okteto 65.3
  4. 4 Grafana Loki 64.9
  5. 5 Tigera 62.9
  6. 6 Solo.io 62.3
  7. 7 Kubeshop 62.2
  8. 8 Backstage 60.5
  9. 9 Gloo 60.4
  10. 10 Google Kubernetes Engine 60.3
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Backstage 57.3
  2. 2 Grafana Loki 49.8
  3. 3 Tigera 46.5
  4. 4 Kubeshop 45.1
  5. 5 Google Kubernetes Engine 40.2
  6. 6 OpenFGA 35.4
  7. 7 Solo.io 34.8
  8. 8 Gloo 34.5
  9. 9 OpenFeature 34.5
  10. 10 Okteto 32.4
All 150 members of this roster resolve to a provider in the catalog; 141 carry a score (94%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 106 of 141 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 14 November 2026, across 41591 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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  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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