# wasmCloud Application Deployment Manager (wadm) API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/wasmcloud/wasmcloud-wadm-api/  
**Provider:** wasmCloud — https://apis.io/providers/wasmcloud/  
**Documentation:** https://wasmcloud.com/docs/ecosystem/wadm/

wasmCloud Application Deployment Manager (wadm) API is one of 5 APIs that [wasmCloud](https://apis.io/providers/wasmcloud/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by an AsyncAPI event-driven specification. This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions. Tagged areas include Application Management, Declarative, Deployment, and OAM. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, a GitHub repository, an AsyncAPI specification, and 2 JSON Schemas.

wadm provides a declarative application deployment API for wasmCloud. Applications are defined as YAML manifests specifying components, capability providers, and their links. wadm manages the desired state of applications across the lattice, handling scaling, updates, and self-healing through reconciliation loops using the Open Application Model format.

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **Documentation** — https://wasmcloud.com/docs/ecosystem/wadm/
- **Reference** — https://wasmcloud.com/docs/ecosystem/wadm/api/
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/wasmCloud/wadm
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wasmcloud/refs/heads/main/json-schema/wasmcloud-manifest-schema.json
- **AsyncAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wasmcloud/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/wasmcloud-wadm-asyncapi.yml
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wasmcloud/refs/heads/main/json-schema/wasmcloud-oam-manifest-schema.json

## Other wasmCloud APIs (4)

- [wasmCloud Control Interface API](https://apis.io/apis/wasmcloud/wasmcloud-control-api/)
- [wasmCloud wash CLI](https://apis.io/apis/wasmcloud/wasmcloud-wash-cli/)
- [wasmCloud WIT Interfaces](https://apis.io/apis/wasmcloud/wasmcloud-interfaces/)
- [wasmCloud Kubernetes Operator](https://apis.io/apis/wasmcloud/wasmcloud-kubernetes-operator/)

## Tags

Application Management, Declarative, Deployment, OAM

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