Continuous Delivery Foundation

CDEvents Specification

CDEvents is a common specification for Continuous Delivery events that enables interoperability across CI/CD systems. It extends the CloudEvents specification and defines event vocabularies for source code control, continuous integration, testing, continuous deployment, continuous operations, and core lifecycle events. The specification is maintained at github.com/cdevents/spec.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://cdevents.dev/docs/

Schemas & Data

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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/continuous-delivery-foundation/refs/heads/main/json-schema/continuous-delivery-foundation-cdevents-schemas.yml

Other Resources

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Specification
https://github.com/cdevents/spec
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GitHubOrg
https://github.com/cdevents
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Community
https://cdevents.dev/community/
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Webhooks
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/continuous-delivery-foundation/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/continuous-delivery-foundation-cdevents-events.yml
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APIsJSON
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/continuous-delivery-foundation/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: continuous-delivery-foundation:cdevents
name: CDEvents Specification
description: CDEvents is a common specification for Continuous Delivery events that enables interoperability
  across CI/CD systems. It extends the CloudEvents specification and defines event vocabularies for source
  code control, continuous integration, testing, continuous deployment, continuous operations, and core
  lifecycle events. The specification is maintained at github.com/cdevents/spec.
humanURL: https://cdevents.dev/
tags:
- CDEvents
- CI/CD
- CloudEvents
- Event
- Specification
tags_raw:
- CDEvents
- CI/CD
- CloudEvents
- Events
- Specification
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://cdevents.dev/docs/
- type: Specification
  url: https://github.com/cdevents/spec
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/cdevents
- type: Community
  url: https://cdevents.dev/community/
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/continuous-delivery-foundation-cdevents-schemas.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/continuous-delivery-foundation-cdevents-events.yml