# CRI-O Lifecycle API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/cri-o/cri-o-lifecycle-api/  
**Provider:** CRI-O — https://apis.io/providers/cri-o/  
**Base URL:** http://localhost  
**Documentation:** https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/architecture/cri/

CRI-O Lifecycle API is one of 6 APIs that [CRI-O](https://apis.io/providers/cri-o/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Lifecycle. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

Endpoints to pause and unpause running containers.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cri-o/refs/heads/main/openapi/cri-o-lifecycle-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o
- **Rules** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cri-o/refs/heads/main/rules/cri-o-status-rules.yml
- **Documentation** — https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/blob/main/docs/metrics.md
- **Rules** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cri-o/refs/heads/main/rules/cri-o-metrics-rules.yml

## Other CRI-O APIs (5)

- [CRI-O CRI gRPC API](https://apis.io/apis/cri-o/cri-o-cri-grpc-api/)
- [CRI-O Containers API](https://apis.io/apis/cri-o/cri-o-containers-api/)
- [CRI-O Debug API](https://apis.io/apis/cri-o/cri-o-debug-api/)
- [CRI-O Information API](https://apis.io/apis/cri-o/cri-o-information-api/)
- [CRI-O Metrics API](https://apis.io/apis/cri-o/cri-o-metrics-api/)

## Tags

Lifecycle

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/cri-o/cri-o-lifecycle-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/cri-o/.