Score Specification

The Score Specification (score.yaml) is a declarative, platform-agnostic workload definition format that captures containers, service ports, and resource dependencies in a single file. Reference CLI implementations (score-compose and score-k8s) translate Score files into Docker Compose manifests or Kubernetes manifests respectively. The specification supports metadata, container definitions with environment variables and volume mounts, service port exposure, health probes, and resource references using placeholder syntax.

API entry from apis.yml

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aid: score:score-specification
name: Score Specification
description: The Score Specification (score.yaml) is a declarative, platform-agnostic workload definition
  format that captures containers, service ports, and resource dependencies in a single file. Reference
  CLI implementations (score-compose and score-k8s) translate Score files into Docker Compose manifests
  or Kubernetes manifests respectively. The specification supports metadata, container definitions with
  environment variables and volume mounts, service port exposure, health probes, and resource references
  using placeholder syntax.
humanURL: https://score.dev/
tags:
- Platform Engineering
- Workload Specification
- Cloud Native
- CNCF
- Open Source
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.score.dev/
- type: Specification
  url: https://docs.score.dev/docs/score-specification/score-spec-reference/
- type: GitHub Repository
  url: https://github.com/score-spec/spec
- type: Vocabulary
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/score/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/score-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/score/refs/heads/main/json-ld/score-context.jsonld