# Containerfile Reference

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/containerfile/reference/  
**Provider:** Containerfile — https://apis.io/providers/containerfile/  
**Base URL:** https://github.com  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/containers/common/blob/main/docs/Containerfile.5.md

Containerfile Reference is one of 4 APIs that [Containerfile](https://apis.io/providers/containerfile/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Containerfile, Reference, and containers/common. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and a GitHub repository.

The official Containerfile reference shipped with the containers/common project. Documents every Containerfile instruction, syntax, and the ways Containerfile differs from Dockerfile, including secret mounts and platform-aware ARGs.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Specification** — https://github.com/containers/common/blob/main/docs/Containerfile.5.md
- **Documentation** — https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-build.1.html
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/containers/common
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/containerfile/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Containerfile APIs (3)

- [Dockerfile Reference](https://apis.io/apis/containerfile/dockerfile-reference/)
- [BuildKit Dockerfile Frontend](https://apis.io/apis/containerfile/buildkit-frontend/)
- [OCI Image Specification](https://apis.io/apis/containerfile/oci-image-spec/)

## Tags

Containerfile, Reference, containers/common

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