Continuous Delivery Foundation

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.

Continuous Delivery Foundation publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Jenkins, Spinnaker, Screwdriver, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Automation, CI/CD, DevOps, Linux Foundation, and Open-Source.

The Continuous Delivery Foundation catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Continuous Delivery Foundation’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, CLI, changelog, training material, and 33 more developer resources.

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Composite quality — 53.5/100 · developing

Contract Quality 14.6 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 11.0 / 18

Access Clarity 5.2 / 18

Operational Transparency 6.5 / 12

Contract Governance 2.0 / 11

Discoverability 6.5 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 3.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 40/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

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 ...

Jenkins

Jenkins is the leading open source automation server, providing hundreds of plugins for building, deploying, and automating software projects. Jenkins exposes a remote access RE...

Spinnaker

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. Sp...

Screwdriver

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 webhoo...

Ortelius

Ortelius is an open source supply chain evidence store that aggregates continuous security intelligence across the software delivery lifecycle. It exposes APIs for tracking micr...

JayeX

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 ...

CD Foundation Content API

The Continuous Delivery Foundation publishes a machine-readable index of its own website content. The foundation serves an RFC 9727 API catalog at /.well-known/api-catalog which...

Tekton

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 o...

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Continuous Delivery Foundation MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Continuous Delivery Foundation Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Continuous Delivery Foundation Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Continuous Delivery Foundation Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Continuous Delivery Foundation Cdevents Events

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Continuous Delivery Foundation Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Continuous Delivery Foundation Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Continuous Delivery Foundation Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

DataModel

Webhooks

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

ToolCrosswalk

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Authentication

DomainSecurity

SecurityTxt

Security

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Training

Training

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Community

StatusPage

ChangeLog

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 5

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Blog

Newsroom

Newsletter

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Projects

Projects

Events

Events

APICatalog

APICatalog

Source (apis.yml)

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
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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: Consuming
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
tags_raw:
- Automation
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- Linux Foundation
- Open Source
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-09-05'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/continuous-delivery-foundation/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
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
  - 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
- 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
  - type: OpenAPI
    name: Jenkins Pipeline Graph View plugin API
    url: openapi/continuous-delivery-foundation-jenkins-pipeline-graph-view-openapi.yaml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/continuous-delivery-foundation-jenkins-pipeline-graph-view-overlay.yaml
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/continuous-delivery-foundation-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/continuous-delivery-foundation-tool-crosswalk.yml
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://status.jenkins.io/
  - type: Security
    url: https://www.jenkins.io/security/reporting/
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://www.jenkins.io/changelog/
- 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
  tags_raw:
  - 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
  - type: OpenAPI
    name: Spinnaker Gate API
    url: openapi/continuous-delivery-foundation-spinnaker-openapi.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/continuous-delivery-foundation-spinnaker-overlay.yaml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/continuous-delivery-foundation-cdevents-events.yml
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://spinnaker.io/docs/releases/versions/
  - type: CLI
    url: https://spinnaker.io/docs/setup/other_config/spin/
- 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/
  baseURL: https://api.screwdriver.cd/
  tags:
  - Builds
  - CD
  - CI/CD
  - Pipelines
  - Screwdriver
  tags_raw:
  - Build
  - CD
  - CI/CD
  - Pipelines
  - Screwdriver
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.screwdriver.cd/
  - type: APIDocumentation
    url: https://docs.screwdriver.cd/user-guide/api
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.screwdriver.cd/user-guide/quickstart
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/screwdriver-cd
  - type: OpenAPI
    name: Screwdriver v4 API
    url: openapi/continuous-delivery-foundation-screwdriver-openapi.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/continuous-delivery-foundation-screwdriver-overlay.yaml
- 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
  tags_raw:
  - CI/CD
  - Cloud Native
  - Developer Tools
  - Platform
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://jayex.io/v3/
  - type: Community
    url: https://jayex.io/community/
  - type: OpenAPI
    name: JayeX (jx-api) type definitions
    url: openapi/continuous-delivery-foundation-jayex-jx-api-openapi.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/continuous-delivery-foundation-jayex-jx-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: CLI
    url: https://jayex.io/v3/develop/reference/jx/
- aid: continuous-delivery-foundation:content-api
  name: CD Foundation Content API
  description: The Continuous Delivery Foundation publishes a machine-readable index of its own website content. The foundation
    serves an RFC 9727 API catalog at /.well-known/api-catalog which anchors https://cd.foundation/wp-json/ as the service
    description; that endpoint returns a WordPress REST API index of 175 routes across 18 namespaces, including wp/v2 for
    posts, pages and members, and tribe/events/v1 for the CDF event calendar. It is read-oriented and requires no key for
    public content; write access uses WordPress application passwords.
  humanURL: https://cd.foundation/
  baseURL: https://cd.foundation/wp-json/
  tags:
  - Content
  - Events
  - Open-Source
  - REST
  - WordPress
  tags_raw:
  - Content
  - Events
  - Open Source
  - REST
  - WordPress
  properties:
  - type: APICatalog
    url: well-known/continuous-delivery-foundation-api-catalog.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://cd.foundation/blog/
- 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/pipeline-api/
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/tektoncd
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/continuous-delivery-foundation-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/continuous-delivery-foundation-authentication.yml
- 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/
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/continuous-delivery-foundation-well-known.yml
- type: APICatalog
  url: well-known/continuous-delivery-foundation-api-catalog.json
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/continuous-delivery-foundation-security.txt
- type: Security
  url: https://www.jenkins.io/security/reporting/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/continuous-delivery-foundation-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/continuous-delivery-foundation-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/continuous-delivery-foundation-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/continuous-delivery-foundation-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/continuous-delivery-foundation-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/continuous-delivery-foundation-cli.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/continuous-delivery-foundation-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/continuous-delivery-foundation-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/continuous-delivery-foundation-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.jenkins.io/
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/continuous-delivery-foundation-conventions.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/continuous-delivery-foundation-changelog.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/continuous-delivery-foundation-data-model.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/continuous-delivery-foundation-cdevents-events.yml
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/continuous-delivery-foundation-cdevents-schemas.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/continuous-delivery-foundation-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/continuous-delivery-foundation-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/continuous-delivery-foundation-finops.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/privacy-policy
- type: Training
  url: https://cd.foundation/training/
- type: Newsletter
  url: https://cd.foundation/newsletter/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-05'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 87
  pass: local-v3

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