Use Case
Containers, Kubernetes & Serverless
Running and scaling containerized and serverless workloads.
51 providers
133 APIs
46 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.
51 API providers on the APIs.io network offer containers, kubernetes & serverless. The highest-rated are Amazon API Gateway, Cloudflare, Amazon X-Ray, Solo.io, Amazon SQS.
Providers
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Strong 10 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Amazon API GatewayAmazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and...CloudflareCloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fas...Amazon X-RayAWS X-Ray is a distributed tracing service that helps developers analyze and debug production applications,...Solo.ioSolo.io is a cloud-native application-networking company founded in 2017 that builds enterprise and open-so...Amazon SQSAmazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple a...Amazon EFSAmazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, serverless, set-and-forget elastic file system for use ...Amazon ECRAmazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully managed container registry that makes it easy to store, ...Amazon RedshiftAmazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to an...Amazon DynamoDBA fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalabi...Amazon ProtonAWS Proton is a managed service for platform engineers that helps them publish standardized container and s...
Developing 25 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Amazon CodeBuildAWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and ...F5 NetworksF5 Networks is a leader in application delivery networking technology that specializes in application avail...Amazon CodeDeployAWS CodeDeploy is a fully managed deployment service that automates software deployments to various compute...Amazon Managed Service for PrometheusAmazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a serverless, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service for contain...Amazon API GatewayAmazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintai...VantageVantage is a cloud cost management platform designed for modern engineering teams to monitor, optimize, and...FusioFusio is Apache-2.0, self-hosted API management from apioo (Christoph Kappestein, Germany). An operator ins...Amazon App RunnerAWS App Runner is a fully managed container application service that lets you build, deploy, and run contai...ArgoArgo is a collection of open-source Kubernetes-native tools for workflows, events, CI/CD, and progressive d...JFrog ArtifactoryJFrog Artifactory is a universal artifact repository manager supporting all major package formats and build...Apache APISIXApache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance cloud-native API gateway built on NGINX and etcd, d...Pure StoragePure Storage is an American publicly traded technology company specializing in all-flash data storage hardw...Argo WorkflowsArgo Workflows is an open-source, container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kuber...CAST AICAST AI is an Application Performance Automation (APA) platform for Kubernetes that automates cost optimiza...Amazon App MeshAWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easy for your services...Amazon Cloud9AWS Cloud9 is a browser-based integrated development environment (IDE) that enables developers to write, ru...Artifact HubArtifact Hub is a CNCF incubating web-based application that enables finding, installing, and publishing cl...Aqua SecurityAqua Security provides cloud-native security for the full application lifecycle, protecting containers, ser...AnchoreAnchore is a container and software supply chain security company providing open source and enterprise tool...Amazon Cloud MapAmazon Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service that maintains an updated registry of application re...Apache DubboApache Dubbo is a high-performance, Java-based open-source RPC framework that provides service discovery, t...NGINXNGINX is a high-performance open-source web server, reverse proxy, and API gateway widely used for load bal...Apache HelixApache Helix is a generic cluster management framework for partitioned and replicated distributed resources...Argo CDArgo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes that automates the deployment of a...JeticJetic is the first and only cloud-native API & Integration Platform based on Apache Camel. An iPaaS solutio...
Thin 10 Limited public surface area
Youkiyouki is an open source container runtime written in Rust that implements the OCI runtime specification as ...AmbassadorAmbassador is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway built on Envoy Proxy, providing routing, load balancing, auth...Spot by FlexeraSpot by Flexera provides cloud infrastructure automation and optimization solutions. The platform includes ...Apache OozieApache Oozie is a workflow scheduler system for managing Apache Hadoop jobs. It enables users to define wor...Amazon AppSyncAmazon AppSync creates serverless GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs that simplify application development through a ...Amazon Aurora DSQLAmazon Aurora DSQL is a distributed SQL database service optimized for transactional workloads. It provides...Weave NetWeave Net is an open source container networking plugin that creates a virtual network connecting Docker co...Apache MesosApache Mesos is a retired cluster manager (now in the Apache Attic) that provided efficient resource isolat...Ambient MeshAmbient Mesh is a sidecar-less service mesh architecture built on Istio that simplifies microservices commu...RestateRestate is a durable execution platform for building resilient distributed applications, microservice orche...
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented
Apache SkyWalkingApache SkyWalking is an open-source APM (Application Performance Monitoring) system that provides monitorin...WerfWerf is an open-source CNCF sandbox project providing a complete GitOps-based CI/CD solution for Kubernetes...ChainguardChainguard builds, secures, and maintains a catalog of hardened, minimal container images and software supp...VectorVector is an open source high-performance observability data pipeline from Datadog for collecting, transfor...Zero Trust ArchitectureZero Trust Architecture (ZTA) is a security framework defined by NIST SP 800-207 that requires all users an...BuildahBuildah is an open-source, Linux-based command-line tool for building OCI-compliant container images withou...
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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 GitOpsMulti-Cluster ManagementMulti-Cluster NetworkingMulti-Host Docker NetworkingMulti-Region Service MeshServerless API BackendServerless Ad-Hoc QueriesServerless Application BackendServerless Application MonitoringServerless DevelopmentServerless Event ProcessingServerless WorkflowsServerless iPaaS
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