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OCI Image Specification

The OCI Image Specification defines the container image format — the manifest, the image configuration, the filesystem layers and the descriptors that tie them together — so an image built by one tool can be run by any compliant runtime.

specs.opencontainers.org/image-...The standard

Open Container InitiativeGoverning body · Linux Foundation

2016First published

1.1.0 (2024)Current version

Yes — JSON SchemaMachine-readable schema · open

0providers in the catalog

Also known as OCI Image Format, image-spec.

Providers that carry OCI Image 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 Image Specification and says so in its APIs.json profile appears here on the next build. Add or correct a listing.

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