# CNB Lifecycle

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/cloud-native-buildpacks/lifecycle/  
**Provider:** Cloud Native Buildpacks — https://apis.io/providers/cloud-native-buildpacks/  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/buildpacks/lifecycle

CNB Lifecycle 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 Lifecycle and Reference Implementation. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Source Code** — https://github.com/buildpacks/lifecycle
- **Documentation** — https://buildpacks.io/docs/for-platform-operators/concepts/lifecycle/

## 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/)
- [Distribution API](https://apis.io/apis/cloud-native-buildpacks/distribution-api/)
- [pack CLI](https://apis.io/apis/cloud-native-buildpacks/pack-cli/)
- [kpack](https://apis.io/apis/cloud-native-buildpacks/kpack/)
- [Buildpack Registry](https://apis.io/apis/cloud-native-buildpacks/registry/)

## Tags

Lifecycle, Reference Implementation

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