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OCI Distribution Specification

The OCI Distribution Specification defines the HTTP API a container registry exposes for pushing, pulling and discovering artifacts, including the referrers API. It is the one specification in the OCI set that is itself an HTTP API — and it ships an OpenAPI definition.

github.com/opencontainers/distr...The standard

Open Container InitiativeGoverning body · Linux Foundation

2018First published

1.1.0 (2024)Current version

No — the object model is normative, b...Machine-readable schema · open

0providers in the catalog

Also known as distribution-spec, OCI Registry API.

Providers that carry OCI Distribution Specification 0

No provider in the catalog carries this standard as a tag yet. That is a statement about the catalog's tagging, not about adoption: a provider that implements OCI Distribution Specification and says so in its APIs.json profile appears here on the next build. Add or correct a listing.

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