aid: cloud-native-buildpacks name: Cloud Native Buildpacks description: >- Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNB) is a CNCF-graduated specification and set of tooling for transforming application source code into OCI images that can run on any cloud. The project unifies the Heroku and Cloud Foundry buildpack ecosystems around an open standard for detection, build, and image export. The reference implementation lifecycle, the pack CLI for local builds, the kpack server-side builder, and a registry of distribution buildpacks together form the CNB ecosystem. CNB is built around a documented Buildpack API, Platform API, and Distribution API, all versioned and published in the github.com/buildpacks specifications. type: Index image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cloud-native-buildpacks/refs/heads/main/apis.yml created: '2024-01-01' modified: '2026-04-23' specificationVersion: '0.19' kind: opensource tags: - Buildpacks - CNCF - Containers - Images - OCI - Open Source - Platform - Reproducible Builds apis: - aid: cloud-native-buildpacks:buildpack-api name: Buildpack API tags: - Buildpacks - Specification image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://github.com/buildpacks/spec/blob/main/buildpack.md properties: - url: https://github.com/buildpacks/spec/blob/main/buildpack.md type: Specification - url: https://buildpacks.io/docs/for-buildpack-authors/ type: Documentation description: >- The Buildpack API is the contract between a buildpack and the lifecycle. It defines the detect and build executables, layers, build-plan provisions and requirements, and image extension lifecycle that buildpack authors implement to participate in a CNB build. - aid: cloud-native-buildpacks:platform-api name: Platform API tags: - Lifecycle - Platform - Specification image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://github.com/buildpacks/spec/blob/main/platform.md properties: - url: https://github.com/buildpacks/spec/blob/main/platform.md type: Specification - url: https://buildpacks.io/docs/for-platform-operators/ type: Documentation description: >- The Platform API is the contract between the CNB lifecycle and a platform such as pack, kpack, or a CI runner. It defines how builders, stacks, run images, and inputs are passed to the lifecycle phases (analyze, detect, restore, build, export, and rebase) and how outputs are consumed. - aid: cloud-native-buildpacks:distribution-api name: Distribution API tags: - Distribution - Registries - Specification image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://github.com/buildpacks/spec/blob/main/distribution.md properties: - url: https://github.com/buildpacks/spec/blob/main/distribution.md type: Specification description: >- The Distribution API specifies how buildpacks and builders are packaged as OCI artifacts, signed, and distributed through OCI registries. It also covers how meta-buildpacks compose other buildpacks and how stacks and run images are referenced. - aid: cloud-native-buildpacks:pack-cli name: pack CLI tags: - CLI - Tooling image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://buildpacks.io/docs/for-app-developers/how-to/build-inputs/ properties: - url: https://buildpacks.io/docs/for-app-developers/how-to/build-inputs/ type: Documentation - url: https://github.com/buildpacks/pack type: Source Code description: >- pack is the reference command-line interface for Cloud Native Buildpacks. It implements the Platform API to build OCI images from source on a developer's workstation, manages builders and buildpack packages, and integrates with Docker and OCI registries. - aid: cloud-native-buildpacks:lifecycle name: CNB Lifecycle tags: - Lifecycle - Reference Implementation image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://github.com/buildpacks/lifecycle properties: - url: https://github.com/buildpacks/lifecycle type: Source Code - url: https://buildpacks.io/docs/for-platform-operators/concepts/lifecycle/ type: Documentation description: >- The CNB Lifecycle is the reference implementation of the Buildpack and Platform APIs. It runs the detect, analyze, restore, build, export, and rebase phases used by all CNB platforms to produce reproducible OCI images. - aid: cloud-native-buildpacks:kpack name: kpack tags: - Kubernetes - Server-side Builds image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://github.com/buildpacks-community/kpack properties: - url: https://github.com/buildpacks-community/kpack type: Source Code - url: https://github.com/buildpacks-community/kpack/blob/main/docs/image.md type: Documentation description: >- kpack is a community Kubernetes-native implementation of Cloud Native Buildpacks. It exposes Image, Builder, ClusterBuilder, and ClusterStack custom resources for declaring continuously rebuilt OCI images using CNB. - aid: cloud-native-buildpacks:registry name: Buildpack Registry tags: - Discovery - Registry image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg humanURL: https://registry.buildpacks.io/ properties: - url: https://registry.buildpacks.io/ type: Registry - url: https://github.com/buildpacks/registry-api type: Source Code description: >- The Cloud Native Buildpacks registry indexes published buildpacks for discovery and reuse. It mirrors metadata for buildpack packages stored in OCI registries and exposes a browseable catalog at registry.buildpacks.io. common: - type: Website url: https://buildpacks.io/ - type: Documentation url: https://buildpacks.io/docs/ - type: Specification url: https://github.com/buildpacks/spec - type: GitHub url: https://github.com/buildpacks - type: Community url: https://buildpacks.io/community/ - type: Slack url: https://slack.cncf.io/ - type: Blog url: https://medium.com/buildpacks - type: RoadMap url: https://github.com/buildpacks/roadmap - type: CNCF url: https://www.cncf.io/projects/buildpacks/ - type: JSONLD url: json-ld/cloud-native-buildpacks-context.jsonld - type: Spectral url: rules/cloud-native-buildpacks-rules.yml - type: Naftiko Capabilities url: capabilities/cloud-native-buildpacks.yaml maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kinlane@gmail.com