Use Case

Containers, Kubernetes & Serverless

Running and scaling containerized and serverless workloads.

45 providers 132 APIs 42 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.

45 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 EFS.

Providers

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

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 12 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Solo.ioSolo.io is a cloud-native application-networking company founded in 2017 that builds enterprise and open-so...5 APIs62.4Amazon X-RayAWS X-Ray is a distributed tracing service that helps developers analyze and debug production applications,...2 APIs59.6Amazon EFSAmazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, serverless, set-and-forget elastic file system for use ...1 API57.4Amazon SQSAmazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple a...1 API57.4Amazon ECRAmazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully managed container registry that makes it easy to store, ...1 API57.2JFrog ArtifactoryJFrog Artifactory is a universal artifact repository manager supporting all major package formats and build...4 APIs57.2Amazon RedshiftAmazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to an...1 API56.0Amazon App RunnerAWS App Runner is a fully managed container application service that lets you build, deploy, and run contai...3 APIs55.9Amazon CodeDeployAWS CodeDeploy is a fully managed deployment service that automates software deployments to various compute...2 APIs55.9FusioFusio is Apache-2.0, self-hosted API management from apioo (Christoph Kappestein, Germany). An operator ins...4 APIs54.8Amazon ProtonAWS Proton is a managed service for platform engineers that helps them publish standardized container and s...1 API54.3Pure StoragePure Storage is an American publicly traded technology company specializing in all-flash data storage hardw...3 APIs54.3
Developing 16 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Amazon CodeBuildAWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and ...2 APIs52.9Amazon Managed Service for PrometheusAmazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a serverless, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service for contain...1 API50.4Amazon App MeshAWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easy for your services...2 APIs49.7Artifact HubArtifact Hub is a CNCF incubating web-based application that enables finding, installing, and publishing cl...1 API49.4ArgoArgo is a collection of open-source Kubernetes-native tools for workflows, events, CI/CD, and progressive d...3 APIs48.9Apache APISIXApache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance cloud-native API gateway built on NGINX and etcd, d...2 APIs48.8NGINXNGINX is a high-performance open-source web server, reverse proxy, and API gateway widely used for load bal...1 API46.9CAST AICAST AI is an Application Performance Automation (APA) platform for Kubernetes that automates cost optimiza...1 API46.8Argo WorkflowsArgo Workflows is an open-source, container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kuber...1 API46.3Amazon Cloud9AWS Cloud9 is a browser-based integrated development environment (IDE) that enables developers to write, ru...2 APIs45.4Apache DubboApache Dubbo is a high-performance, Java-based open-source RPC framework that provides service discovery, t...1 API44.0Aqua SecurityAqua Security provides cloud-native security for the full application lifecycle, protecting containers, ser...8 APIs41.6Amazon Cloud MapAmazon Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service that maintains an updated registry of application re...3 APIs41.3AnchoreAnchore is a container and software supply chain security company providing open source and enterprise tool...1 API40.7Apache HelixApache Helix is a generic cluster management framework for partitioned and replicated distributed resources...1 API39.8JeticJetic is the first and only cloud-native API & Integration Platform based on Apache Camel. An iPaaS solutio...1 API39.3
Thin 10 Limited public surface area
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented

What Providers Actually Declared

This use case is a canonical term. These are the free-text strings providers wrote in their own apis.yml that map onto it.

CI/CD on KubernetesContainer OrchestrationContainer RegistryContainer and Kubernetes StorageContainerized API DeploymentContainerized Application StorageDeploy serverless applications at the edgeDistributed Database Cluster ManagementDocker Image BuildingEnforce 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 Deployment

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