Use Case

Containers, Kubernetes & Serverless

Running and scaling containerized and serverless workloads.

42 providers 130 APIs 40 declared variants

Operating modern compute platforms — scheduling containers, managing clusters and service meshes, and running event-triggered functions that scale to zero without provisioned servers.

42 API providers on the APIs.io network offer containers, kubernetes & serverless. The highest-rated are Cloudflare, Amazon API Gateway, Solo.io, Amazon X-Ray, Amazon Redshift.

Providers

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

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready

CloudflareCloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fas...26 published contracts81.3 Amazon API GatewayAmazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and...13 published contracts70.6

Strong 10 Solid coverage with minor gaps

Solo.ioSolo.io is a cloud-native application-networking company founded in 2017 that builds enterprise and open-so...6 published contracts63.0 Amazon X-RayAWS X-Ray is a distributed tracing service that helps developers analyze and debug production applications,...2 published contracts61.1 Amazon RedshiftAmazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to an...2 published contracts58.8 Amazon SQSAmazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple a...1 published contract58.7 Amazon ECRAmazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully managed container registry that makes it easy to store, ...1 published contract58.4 Amazon EFSAmazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, serverless, set-and-forget elastic file system for use ...1 published contract58.4 JFrog ArtifactoryJFrog Artifactory is a universal artifact repository manager supporting all major package formats and build...4 published contracts57.9 Amazon CodeDeployAWS CodeDeploy is a fully managed deployment service that automates software deployments to various compute...2 published contracts56.8 Amazon ProtonAWS Proton is a managed service for platform engineers that helps them publish standardized container and s...1 published contract56.0 FusioFusio is Apache-2.0, self-hosted API management from apioo (Christoph Kappestein, Germany). An operator ins...4 published contracts55.9

Developing 12 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

Pure StoragePure Storage is an American publicly traded technology company specializing in all-flash data storage hardw...3 published contracts52.6 Amazon Managed Service for PrometheusAmazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a serverless, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service for contain...1 published contract51.5 Artifact HubArtifact Hub is a CNCF incubating web-based application that enables finding, installing, and publishing cl...2 published contracts50.4 Apache APISIXApache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance cloud-native API gateway built on NGINX and etcd, d...2 published contracts48.3 Amazon Cloud9AWS Cloud9 is a browser-based integrated development environment (IDE) that enables developers to write, ru...2 APIs47.9 ArgoArgo is a collection of open-source Kubernetes-native tools for workflows, events, CI/CD, and progressive d...3 published contracts47.6 CAST AICAST AI is an Application Performance Automation (APA) platform for Kubernetes that automates cost optimiza...1 published contract46.3 NGINXNGINX is a high-performance open-source web server, reverse proxy, and API gateway widely used for load bal...1 published contract45.3 Argo WorkflowsArgo Workflows is an open-source, container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kuber...1 published contract45.1 Amazon Cloud MapAmazon Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service that maintains an updated registry of application re...3 APIs43.6 Apache DubboApache Dubbo is a high-performance, Java-based open-source RPC framework that provides service discovery, t...1 published contract42.9 Aqua SecurityAqua Security provides cloud-native security for the full application lifecycle, protecting containers, ser...8 APIs42.1

Thin 13 Limited public surface area

AnchoreAnchore is a container and software supply chain security company providing open source and enterprise tool...1 published contract38.8 Apache HelixApache Helix is a generic cluster management framework for partitioned and replicated distributed resources...1 published contract38.5 JeticJetic is the first and only cloud-native API & Integration Platform based on Apache Camel. An iPaaS solutio...1 published contract38.3 Youkiyouki is an open source container runtime written in Rust that implements the OCI runtime specification as ...2 APIs36.8 Spot by FlexeraSpot by Flexera provides cloud infrastructure automation and optimization solutions. The platform includes ...5 published contracts35.5 AmbassadorAmbassador is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway built on Envoy Proxy, providing routing, load balancing, auth...1 published contract35.4 Ambient MeshAmbient Mesh is a sidecar-less service mesh architecture built on Istio that simplifies microservices commu...1 API35.2 Apache OozieApache Oozie is a workflow scheduler system for managing Apache Hadoop jobs. It enables users to define wor...1 published contract34.3 Amazon AppSyncAmazon AppSync creates serverless GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs that simplify application development through a ...1 published contract30.3 Amazon Aurora DSQLAmazon Aurora DSQL is a distributed SQL database service optimized for transactional workloads. It provides...1 published contract30.0 Weave NetWeave Net is an open source container networking plugin that creates a virtual network connecting Docker co...5 APIs28.5 BuildahBuildah is an open-source, Linux-based command-line tool for building OCI-compliant container images withou...27.5 Apache MesosApache Mesos is a retired cluster manager (now in the Apache Attic) that provided efficient resource isolat...2 APIs27.2

Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented

ChainguardChainguard builds, secures, and maintains a catalog of hardened, minimal container images and software supp...6 APIs24.3 Zero Trust ArchitectureZero Trust Architecture (ZTA) is a security framework defined by NIST SP 800-207 that requires all users an...5 APIs23.2 WerfWerf is an open-source CNCF sandbox project providing a complete GitOps-based CI/CD solution for Kubernetes...22.9 VectorVector is an open source high-performance observability data pipeline from Datadog for collecting, transfor...3 APIs22.8 Apache SkyWalkingApache SkyWalking is an open-source APM (Application Performance Monitoring) system that provides monitorin...3 APIs22.6

What Providers Actually Declared

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CI/CD on KubernetesContainer OrchestrationContainer RegistryContainer and Kubernetes StorageContainerized Application StorageDeploy serverless applications at the edgeDistributed Database Cluster ManagementEnforce image policies at Kubernetes admission controlExpose DynamoDB tables, Lambda functions, and OpenSearch as GraphQL APIsHelm Chart DiscoveryHelm Chart RepositoryKubernetes Application DeliveryKubernetes CI/CD IntegrationKubernetes Cluster MonitoringKubernetes Cost ManagementKubernetes IngressKubernetes Ingress ControllerKubernetes Log CollectionKubernetes SecurityKubernetes Workload IdentityKubernetes Workload SecurityKubernetes Workloads via containerdLambda Function UpdatesMigrate PostgreSQL applications to serverless infrastructureMulti-Cluster CoordinationMulti-Cluster ManagementMulti-Cluster NetworkingMulti-Host Docker NetworkingMulti-Region Service MeshServerless API BackendServerless Ad-Hoc QueriesServerless Application MonitoringServerless DevelopmentServerless Event ProcessingServerless WorkflowsServerless iPaaSService Mesh AdoptionService Mesh DeploymentService Mesh Edge GatewayService Mesh Monitoring

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