# Distribution Specification

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/buildpacks-io/distribution-spec/  
**Provider:** buildpacks-io — https://apis.io/providers/buildpacks-io/  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/buildpacks/spec/blob/main/distribution.md

Distribution Specification is one of 8 APIs that [buildpacks-io](https://apis.io/providers/buildpacks-io/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Cloud Native Buildpacks, Distribution, OCI, and CNCF. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The Distribution API (currently 0.3) defines how buildpacks, extensions, and builders are packaged as OCI artifacts and published to OCI registries. Covers labels (io.buildpacks.buildpack.api, io.buildpacks.buildpack.layers), multi-buildpack OCI artifacts, and image extension distribution.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://github.com/buildpacks/spec/blob/main/distribution.md
- **Repository** — https://github.com/buildpacks/spec

## Other buildpacks-io APIs (7)

- [Buildpack Specification](https://apis.io/apis/buildpacks-io/buildpack-spec/)
- [Platform Specification](https://apis.io/apis/buildpacks-io/platform-spec/)
- [Image Extension Specification](https://apis.io/apis/buildpacks-io/image-extension-spec/)
- [Project Descriptor (project.toml)](https://apis.io/apis/buildpacks-io/project-descriptor-spec/)
- [Service Bindings Extension](https://apis.io/apis/buildpacks-io/service-bindings-spec/)
- [buildpacks-io Buildpacks API](https://apis.io/apis/buildpacks-io/buildpacks-io-buildpacks-api/)
- [buildpacks-io Search API](https://apis.io/apis/buildpacks-io/buildpacks-io-search-api/)

## Tags

Cloud Native Buildpacks, Distribution, OCI, CNCF

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