# CNI Reference Plugins

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/cni/cni-plugins/  
**Provider:** Container Network Interface (CNI) — https://apis.io/providers/cni/  
**Documentation:** https://www.cni.dev/plugins/current/

CNI Reference Plugins is one of 2 APIs that [Container Network Interface (CNI)](https://apis.io/providers/cni/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Containers, Kubernetes, Linux, Network Plugins, and Networking. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and a GitHub repository.

A collection of reference and example networking plugins maintained by the containernetworking team that implement the CNI specification. Includes main plugins such as bridge, ipvlan, macvlan, ptp, host-device, and loopback, as well as meta plugins such as portmap, bandwidth, firewall, sbr, and tuning for additional networking functionality.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://www.cni.dev/plugins/current/
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/containernetworking/plugins

## Other Container Network Interface (CNI) APIs (1)

- [CNI Specification](https://apis.io/apis/cni/cni-spec/)

## Tags

Containers, Kubernetes, Linux, Network Plugins, Networking

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