Continuous Delivery Foundation

aid: continuous-delivery-foundation
name: Continuous Delivery Foundation
description: The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) is a Linux Foundation project that hosts vendor-neutral open source
  projects for continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps. It is the home of CDEvents, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Screwdriver,
  Ortelius, JayeX, and was previously the home of Tekton (now a CNCF graduated project) and other CD-focused tooling.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/continuous-delivery-foundation.png
tags:
- Automation
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- Linux Foundation
- Open Source
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-04-28'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/continuous-delivery-foundation/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- 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
  - 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/
- aid: continuous-delivery-foundation:jenkins
  name: Jenkins
  description: Jenkins is the leading open source automation server, providing hundreds of plugins for building, deploying,
    and automating software projects. Jenkins exposes a remote access REST API that supports XML, JSON, and Python representations
    and is the de facto standard automation engine for many organizations.
  humanURL: https://www.jenkins.io/
  tags:
  - Automation
  - CI/CD
  - Jenkins
  - Pipelines
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/
  - type: APIDocumentation
    url: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/using/remote-access-api/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/pipeline/tour/getting-started/
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/jenkinsci
- aid: continuous-delivery-foundation:spinnaker
  name: Spinnaker
  description: Spinnaker is an open-source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform originally built at Netflix and Google
    for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence. Spinnaker exposes a Gate REST API that drives pipelines,
    applications, and deployment workflows across AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, and other cloud targets.
  humanURL: https://spinnaker.io/
  tags:
  - CD
  - Cloud
  - Deployment
  - Multi-cloud
  - Spinnaker
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://spinnaker.io/docs/
  - type: APIDocumentation
    url: https://spinnaker.io/docs/reference/api/
  - type: Community
    url: https://spinnaker.io/docs/community/
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/spinnaker
- aid: continuous-delivery-foundation:screwdriver
  name: Screwdriver
  description: Screwdriver is an open-source build platform designed for Continuous Delivery, originally built at Yahoo. It
    provides a REST API for managing pipelines, builds, jobs, and webhooks and is designed to coordinate complex CD workflows
    across multiple repositories.
  humanURL: https://screwdriver.cd/
  tags:
  - Build
  - CD
  - CI/CD
  - Pipelines
  - Screwdriver
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.screwdriver.cd/
  - type: APIDocumentation
    url: https://docs.screwdriver.cd/api/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.screwdriver.cd/user-guide/quickstart
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/screwdriver-cd
- aid: continuous-delivery-foundation:ortelius
  name: Ortelius
  description: Ortelius is an open source supply chain evidence store that aggregates continuous security intelligence across
    the software delivery lifecycle. It exposes APIs for tracking microservice components, SBOMs, vulnerabilities, and deployment
    evidence so platform teams can answer where any component is running and what is in it.
  humanURL: https://ortelius.io/
  tags:
  - Evidence Store
  - SBOM
  - Supply Chain
  - Security
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ortelius.io/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.ortelius.io/guides/
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/ortelius
- aid: continuous-delivery-foundation:jayex
  name: JayeX
  description: JayeX is a customizable cloud developer tool suite hosted by the Continuous Delivery Foundation that provides
    built-in CI/CD capabilities and developer self-service tooling for cloud-native teams.
  humanURL: https://jayex.io/
  tags:
  - CI/CD
  - Cloud Native
  - Developer Tools
  - Platform
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://jayex.io/v3/
  - type: Community
    url: https://jayex.io/community/
- aid: continuous-delivery-foundation:tekton
  name: Tekton
  description: Tekton is a Kubernetes-native open source framework for creating CI/CD systems. It defines Custom Resource
    Definitions for Pipelines, Tasks, PipelineRuns, and TaskRuns and was originally hosted at the CDF before moving to the
    Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It is included here for historical context with the CDF ecosystem.
  humanURL: https://tekton.dev/
  tags:
  - CI/CD
  - Kubernetes
  - Pipelines
  - Tekton
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tekton.dev/docs/
  - type: APIDocumentation
    url: https://tekton.dev/docs/pipelines/api/
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/tektoncd
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/continuous-delivery-foundation-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cdeliveryfdn
- type: Website
  url: https://cd.foundation/
- type: Projects
  url: https://cd.foundation/projects/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://cd.foundation/projects/
- type: Blog
  url: https://cd.foundation/blog/
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://cd.foundation/news/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/cdfoundation
- type: Community
  url: https://cd.foundation/community/
- type: Events
  url: https://cd.foundation/events/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com