wasmCloud

aid: wasmcloud
name: wasmCloud
description: wasmCloud is a CNCF incubating platform for building, managing, and scaling distributed applications using WebAssembly
  components. It provides a runtime that manages the lifecycle of WebAssembly actors and capability providers, enabling developers
  to write portable business logic that connects to infrastructure capabilities like HTTP servers, messaging, key-value stores,
  and databases through a declarative linking model based on WebAssembly Interface Types (WIT).
url: https://wasmcloud.com
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Cloud Native
- CNCF
- Distributed Systems
- Incubating
- Runtime
- Wasm
- WebAssembly
- WIT
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-05-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
type: Index
apis:
- aid: wasmcloud:wasmcloud-control-api
  name: wasmCloud Control Interface API
  description: The wasmCloud control interface provides a NATS-based API for managing the wasmCloud lattice. It supports operations
    for starting and stopping actors and providers, establishing links between components, querying host inventories, and
    managing application deployments. The wash CLI and wasmCloud dashboard interact with hosts through this interface.
  humanURL: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/hosts/lattice-protocols/control-interface/
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/hosts/lattice-protocols/control-interface/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/concepts/
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/wasmcloud-control-asyncapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/wasmcloud-lattice-events-asyncapi.yml
  tags:
  - Control API
  - Lattice Management
  - NATS
- aid: wasmcloud:wasmcloud-wadm-api
  name: wasmCloud Application Deployment Manager (wadm) API
  description: 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.
  humanURL: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/ecosystem/wadm/
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/ecosystem/wadm/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/ecosystem/wadm/api/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/wasmCloud/wadm
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/wasmcloud-manifest-schema.json
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/wasmcloud-wadm-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/wasmcloud-oam-manifest-schema.json
  tags:
  - Application Management
  - Declarative
  - Deployment
  - OAM
- aid: wasmcloud:wasmcloud-wash-cli
  name: wasmCloud wash CLI
  description: wash (WAsmcloud SHell) is the comprehensive command-line tool for developing, building, deploying, and managing
    wasmCloud applications and WebAssembly components. It bundles a wasmCloud host, NATS server, and wadm for local development,
    and supports publishing components to OCI registries and managing remote lattices.
  humanURL: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/cli/wash/
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/cli/wash/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/getting-started/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/wasmCloud/wash
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://github.com/wasmCloud/wash/releases
  tags:
  - CLI
  - Developer Tools
  - WebAssembly
- aid: wasmcloud:wasmcloud-interfaces
  name: wasmCloud WIT Interfaces
  description: wasmCloud interfaces are defined using WebAssembly Interface Type (WIT), the open standard interface description
    language maintained as part of the W3C WebAssembly Component Model. wasmCloud supports WASI 0.2 interfaces as well as
    wasmCloud-specific interfaces for capability providers covering HTTP, messaging, key-value, blobstore, and other infrastructure
    concerns.
  humanURL: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/concepts/interfaces/
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/concepts/interfaces/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/reference/wasi/support/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud
  tags:
  - Interfaces
  - WASI
  - WebAssembly
  - WIT
- aid: wasmcloud:wasmcloud-kubernetes-operator
  name: wasmCloud Kubernetes Operator
  description: The wasmCloud Kubernetes Operator enables running wasmCloud infrastructure natively on Kubernetes clusters.
    It deploys wasmCloud hosts as Kubernetes workloads and bridges the Kubernetes control plane with the wasmCloud lattice,
    enabling seamless integration with existing Kubernetes tooling and GitOps workflows. Defines CRDs for Hosts, Artifacts,
    Workloads, WorkloadDeploments, and WorkloadReplicaSets under the runtime.wasmcloud.dev group.
  humanURL: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/deployment/k8s/
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/deployment/k8s/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmcloud-operator
  - type: KubernetesCRD
    url: crd/runtime.wasmcloud.dev_hosts.yaml
  - type: KubernetesCRD
    url: crd/runtime.wasmcloud.dev_artifacts.yaml
  - type: KubernetesCRD
    url: crd/runtime.wasmcloud.dev_workloads.yaml
  - type: KubernetesCRD
    url: crd/runtime.wasmcloud.dev_workloaddeployments.yaml
  - type: KubernetesCRD
    url: crd/runtime.wasmcloud.dev_workloadreplicasets.yaml
  tags:
  - Kubernetes
  - Operator
  - Deployment
common:
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wasmcloud
- type: Website
  url: https://wasmcloud.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://wasmcloud.com/docs/getting-started/
- type: Blog
  url: https://wasmcloud.com/blog/
- type: Community
  url: https://wasmcloud.com/community/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/wasmCloud
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://github.com/wasmcloud/wasmcloud/releases
- type: Slack
  url: https://slack.wasmcloud.com/
- type: AsyncAPI
  url: asyncapi/wasmcloud-control-asyncapi.yml
- type: AsyncAPI
  url: asyncapi/wasmcloud-wadm-asyncapi.yml
- type: AsyncAPI
  url: asyncapi/wasmcloud-lattice-events-asyncapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/wasmcloud-manifest-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/wasmcloud-oam-manifest-schema.json
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/wasmcloud-context.jsonld
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/wasmcloud-oam-manifest-structure.json
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/wasmcloud-vocabulary.yml
- type: KubernetesCRD
  url: crd/runtime.wasmcloud.dev_hosts.yaml
- type: KubernetesCRD
  url: crd/runtime.wasmcloud.dev_artifacts.yaml
- type: KubernetesCRD
  url: crd/runtime.wasmcloud.dev_workloads.yaml
- type: KubernetesCRD
  url: crd/runtime.wasmcloud.dev_workloaddeployments.yaml
- type: KubernetesCRD
  url: crd/runtime.wasmcloud.dev_workloadreplicasets.yaml
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://wasmcloud.com/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com