# Distribution API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/cloud-native-buildpacks/distribution-api/  
**Provider:** Cloud Native Buildpacks — https://apis.io/providers/cloud-native-buildpacks/  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/buildpacks/spec/blob/main/distribution.md

Distribution API is one of 7 APIs that [Cloud Native Buildpacks](https://apis.io/providers/cloud-native-buildpacks/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Distribution, Registries, and Specification.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

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

## Other Cloud Native Buildpacks APIs (6)

- [Buildpack API](https://apis.io/apis/cloud-native-buildpacks/buildpack-api/)
- [Platform API](https://apis.io/apis/cloud-native-buildpacks/platform-api/)
- [pack CLI](https://apis.io/apis/cloud-native-buildpacks/pack-cli/)
- [CNB Lifecycle](https://apis.io/apis/cloud-native-buildpacks/lifecycle/)
- [kpack](https://apis.io/apis/cloud-native-buildpacks/kpack/)
- [Buildpack Registry](https://apis.io/apis/cloud-native-buildpacks/registry/)

## Tags

Distribution, Registries, Specification

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