{"id":"dyrnq-kube-apiserver","name":"kube-apiserver","af_score":59.0,"security_score":74.2,"reliability_score":52.5,"what_it_does":"kube-apiserver is the Kubernetes API server component. It provides the cluster’s Kubernetes REST API endpoints for managing and querying Kubernetes resources, including authentication/authorization, admission control, and request handling.","best_when":"You are deploying or operating a Kubernetes control plane and need standards-based Kubernetes API access for cluster management.","avoid_when":"You need a simple, single-tenant API with a dedicated external API contract and turnkey authentication/rate-limit management; instead, use a service with explicit HTTP API docs and client SDKs tailored to external consumption.","last_evaluated":"2026-04-04T21:31:21.585437+00:00","has_mcp":false,"has_api":true,"auth_methods":["X.509 client certificates","Bearer tokens (e.g., service account tokens)","Kubeconfig-based authentication to the API server","Webhook/aggregated auth modes via Kubernetes configuration (cluster-dependent)"],"has_free_tier":false,"known_gotchas":["Kubernetes API semantics depend on resource types, subresources, and RBAC; authorization failures may occur as 401/403.","Large list/watch operations often require pagination via Kubernetes conventions (continue tokens) and/or watch-based processing; naive clients may miss data.","Requests may be rate-limited or throttled by API server and etcd; backoff/retry behavior must be implemented with attention to status codes.","Admission controllers can reject requests with policy errors; retries may not succeed unless the input changes.","Idempotency and concurrency control often rely on optimistic concurrency (e.g., resourceVersion) rather than HTTP idempotency keys."],"error_quality":0.0}