# Service Bindings Extension

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

Service Bindings Extension 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, Service Bindings, and Kubernetes. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The Service Bindings extension specifies how external service credentials and configuration are surfaced to detect and build under $CNB_PLATFORM_DIR/bindings/. Aligns with the Service Binding Specification for Kubernetes and lets buildpacks discover databases, message brokers, and CA bundles without provider coupling.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Documentation** — https://github.com/buildpacks/spec/blob/main/extensions/bindings.md

## 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/)
- [Distribution Specification](https://apis.io/apis/buildpacks-io/distribution-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/)
- [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, Service Bindings, Kubernetes

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