emerging · 0.5 capability schema

Control Plane

Score 20.9 / 100 4 providers +18 via APIs 18 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (4)

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

Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
OpenworkCompanyAI AgentsOpen SourceDesktop1 API63.4BarndoorAI AgentsAI GovernanceMCPPolicy Enforcement1 API62.0
Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
CrossplaneApache 2.0CNCFCloud-NativeCOMPOSITION1 API47.2
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
Nexus OneCompanyData InfrastructureData GovernanceArtificial Intelligence17.4

APIs with this tag (18)

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Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Gravitee CockpitGravitee Cockpit is the multi-environment, multi-installation control plane for Gravitee. It centralizes ma...67.3
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
ALTR Control Plane APIThe Control Plane API from ALTR — 1 operation(s) for control plane.59.2Tailor Platform Operator APIThe Tailor Platform control plane. A single tailor.v1.OperatorService with 254 RPCs covering organizations,...54.8
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Azure OpenAI Control Plane APIAzure Resource Manager (ARM) REST API for creating and managing Azure OpenAI accounts, model deployments, n...44.9Understudy Control Plane APIREST surface behind the dashboard and CLI, served from the gateway host under /admin/v1 and /customer/v1, o...42.7Kuma Multizone APIKuma's Multizone deployment API enables managing service meshes across multiple Kubernetes clusters and Uni...42.0Accept Control Plane APIThe Control Plane API from Accept — 18 operation(s) for control plane.40.7
Thin 9 Limited public surface area
Google Cloud Service Mesh xDS Control Plane APICloud Service Mesh uses the open-source xDS v3 control plane API to distribute configuration to Envoy sidec...38.5Azure Storage Resource Provider API (File Services / Shares)Azure Resource Manager REST API for managing storage accounts, FileService settings, and FileShare resource...38.0Azure Cosmos DB Resource Provider APIAzure Resource Manager REST API for managing Cosmos DB accounts, databases, containers, throughput, backups...37.8Temporal Cloud Operations APIThe Temporal Cloud control-plane API (CloudService) for programmatically managing Temporal Cloud resources ...37.1Linkerd Proxy Control Plane APIThe Linkerd Proxy Control Plane gRPC API defines the protobuf service contracts used by the data-plane prox...37.0Spacetime Southbound Interface (SBI / CDPI)The Southbound Interface, also called the Control to Data-plane Interface (CDPI), is the collection of gRPC...36.3Redpanda Cloud Control Plane APIThe Redpanda Cloud Control Plane API manages organization-wide resources — clusters, networks, resource gro...33.3HUAPI (Hosting Unified API)HUAPI is Newfold's internal hosting control-plane API, versioned under /v1, covering account, hosting, site...31.2AgentOS Control PlaneHosted web UI at os.agno.com for managing, monitoring, debugging, and testing AgentOS deployments. Connects...29.2
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
NGINX Service Mesh Control Plane APIThe NGINX Service Mesh control plane exposes a REST API used by the `nginx-meshctl` CLI to manage mesh conf...10.3Aserto Control Plane APIManagement API for the Aserto SaaS control plane (wound down May 2025, succeeded by the open-source Topaz p...0.0

Companies reaching this through an API (18)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Control Plane” 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.

Aalyria Accept ALTR Aserto Azure Cosmos DB Azure Files Azure OpenAI Service Google Cloud Service Mesh Gravitee Kuma Linkerd Newfold NGINX Service Mesh Phidata / Agno Redpanda Tailor Temporal Understudy Labs

Score breakdown

Frequency
36.1
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.1
spread across providers
Quality lift
57.0
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
3.4
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Data Plane 5 co-occurrences Policy 5 co-occurrences gRPC 5 co-occurrences Kubernetes 6 co-occurrences Open Source 10 co-occurrences Agents 6 co-occurrences Security 5 co-occurrences AI Agents 5 co-occurrences

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