ORAS

aid: oras
name: ORAS
description: ORAS (OCI Registry As Storage) is a CNCF project that provides a CLI and a set of client libraries for pushing
  and pulling arbitrary OCI artifacts to and from OCI-compliant registries, allowing container registries to be used as a
  generic artifact distribution mechanism.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Artifact Storage
- Cloud Native
- Container Registry
- OCI
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/oras/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: oras:cli
  name: ORAS CLI
  description: Generic command-line registry client used to push and pull OCI artifacts to and from any OCI-compliant container
    registry.
  humanURL: https://oras.land/docs/
  tags:
  - CLI
  - OCI
  - Artifacts
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://oras.land/docs/
  - type: Installation
    url: https://oras.land/docs/installation
  - type: Commands
    url: https://oras.land/docs/commands/oras
  - type: Source Code
    url: https://github.com/oras-project/oras
- aid: oras:client-libraries
  name: ORAS Client Libraries
  description: Client libraries for building custom OCI artifact tools and integrations on top of ORAS, available across multiple
    language ecosystems including Go, Rust, Python, JavaScript, .NET, and Java.
  humanURL: https://oras.land/docs/client_libraries/overview
  tags:
  - SDK
  - Libraries
  - OCI
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://oras.land/docs/client_libraries/overview
  - type: Go
    url: https://github.com/oras-project/oras-go
  - type: Rust
    url: https://github.com/oras-project/rust-oci-client
  - type: Python
    url: https://github.com/oras-project/oras-py
  - type: JavaScript
    url: https://github.com/oras-project/oras-js
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://oras.land/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://oras.land/docs/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/oras-project
- type: Community
  url: https://oras.land/community/
- type: CNCF
  url: https://www.cncf.io/projects/oras/
- name: MCP Server
  url: https://github.com/oras-project/oras-mcp
  type: MCPServer
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com